We had nights that felt like Sunday soft and warm and slow
Laughin’ like we had forever like we’d always know
Then a spark would hit the powder voices start to climb
And my chest would feel that old fear right on cue right on time
I regret the words I never said
All the love I should’ve laid down instead
Every time we’d try old hurt would rise again
Like a broken wheel that would not mend
I came from hurt and hard hands learned to run from heat
So I’d head on for the doorway just to let us breathe
I wasn’t tryin’ to leave you I was tryin’ not to break
Tryin’ to keep my hands from shakin’ tryin’ to keep us safe
When I’d step out for a minute you’d call it runnin’ out
Say if I walked down that driveway don’t come back around
So I’d turn right back to the fire swallow all my pride
But the things I’d done wrong to you stayed burnin’ in your mind
Every wrong I ever made it never got to die
It just lived there in the room with us starin’ down each try
I was beggin’ for some mercy you were pushin’ for the end
And I never found the way to turn us back again
Maybe I hurt you with my distance
Maybe you hurt me with your pain
Maybe two hearts with too much damage
Can’t outdrive that kind of rain
I kept hopin’ things would settle
That the storm would finally end
But I ran out of ways to fix it
And I could not come back in
I regret the words I never said
All the love I should’ve laid down instead
Every time we’d try old hurt would rise again
Like a broken wheel that would not mend
I didn’t leave because I didn’t care
I left because I was scared
And I regret the words I never said
To you