I've gotten a lot of parking tickets,
To know that all they take from you is money.
I've shut off a million alarms,
To go through the same loop every day.

And it's only been a month, I know
Since you dropped my hand and went off alone
But if the words never left my lips then,
Would you have stayed and listened?

I would've squeezed your hands tightly
And saw the mark my fingers left the next day
We wouldn't be noticing how the headlights shined brightly
And how your hair became red as it came.
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You would have found it funny,
If I told you that I memorized every lot we went to,
I was never one for remembering things.
But it's embedded in my brain,
How ironic it is that our last and worst memory
Happened in the same place where I betrayed you.

And maybe a part of you already knows,
All the silent apologies I've got stuck in my throat.
Maybe one day I'll whisper it down the road,
But right now the pain is just too strong to let go.