Kensley Cape - How We Would Have Stayed Lyrics

6 am walk in my kitchen
Daddy said my eyes were red
Told him I had just awoke
But I'd been crying in my bed

Cuz I wear a new necklace
Where that letter used to be
And this one doesn't really
Make me feel as much like me

Mama said it's for a reason
Everything's a season
But I swear I would've loved you all year round

That first day you made a promise
2 months in you took it back
Then at 4 we're doing better
Now at 5 you're over that
You were everything I prayed for
But the Lord knows how to take
Just don't be a stranger
Even though I'd hoped you'd stay

Now my picture frame is empty
It would seem my hand is too
Along with every other thing
That I used to fill with you

And honey I don't blame you
I just wish we could've tried
To make what we had worth it
So we didn't say good bye

Mama said there will be others
Different kinds over lovers
But I swore you'd be the last one I would find

That first day you made a promise
2 months in you took it back
Then at 4 we're doing better
Now at 5 you're over that
You were everything I prayed for
But the Lord knows how to take
Just don't be a stranger
Even though I'd hoped you'd stay

Well I knew it when you told me
That we should talk face to face
After hardly even talking on those
Previous days
That you were packing up your things
And you were leaving me behind
And there was nothing I could do
To change your mind

That first day you made a promise
And I knew you'd take it back
Now I know it will get better
I'm just not quite over that
You were everything I prayed for
Why did the Lord let me cave
If I'd have known we'd become strangers
That is how we would've stayed