Like Before

Summer got cold and twisted

It wasn't quite how I'd wished it

But maybe that's it what's done is done

Been searching in case I missed it

Or evidence it existed

But everything around me says its gone

I'm shivering with the change of the seasons

And I only wish that things could be

Like before like before when we were young

Like before like before what have we become

Like before like before so distant from

Like before like before what have we done

Somehow we've just outgrown it

Its been a while we've both known it

You say its not so but I can tell

Not ready to be alone yet

Your heart on your sleeve postpones it

But misery's a look you don't wear well

I realise there's no sense in the reasons

But I only wish that things could be

Like before like before right at the start

Like before like before when we had heart

Like before like before we built this guard

Like before like before we came apart

Before we gave up on our dreams

Before we learned what lonely means

Before we let the hurt set in

Before our patience wore this thin

Before the fights were tired and old

Before resentment took its hold

Before we started keeping score

Before we needed something more

Before we lost our will to try

Before the moment passed us by

Before we let it slip away

Before we settled for today