I Meant It Then

Verse 1

You came all this way to find me

With an answer in your hands

To a question I stopped asking

Somewhere I didn’t understand

And I wish I could just give you

What you came here hoping for

But the girl who said she loved you

Isn’t standing there anymore

Pre-Chorus

She wasn’t wrong

She wasn’t confused

I won’t rewrite her

Just to make this easier for you

Chorus

I meant it then

Every word, every beat

Every stupid little hope

That you might feel the same for me

I meant it then

But “then” is not today

And I don’t know when it happened

I just know I changed

So don’t think it wasn’t real

Just because it had an end

I loved you when I told you

I meant it then

Verse 2

I used to wonder what you’d tell me

If you ever had the choice

Now you’re standing right in front of me

And I finally hear your voice

Funny how I dreamed this moment

Like it couldn’t come too late

But while you were learning how to reach me

I was learning how to change

Pre-Chorus

You didn’t fail

You didn’t lose

There’s nothing you could fix

To make me feel what I once used to

Chorus

I meant it then

Every word, every beat

Every night I tried imagining

You standing here with me

I meant it then

But “then” is not today

And I won’t turn an old emotion

Into something I should fake

So don’t think it wasn’t real

Just because it had an end

I loved you when I told you

I meant it then

Bridge

Maybe that’s the strangest part

Of getting what we wanted

Sometimes by the time it finds us

We’ve already moved beyond it

And maybe this is what it means

To choose instead of follow

I can’t owe my heart today

To what it wanted yesterday

Final Chorus

I meant it then

And I’m glad that I did

You were something real to me

Not a mistake I need to fix

I meant it then

And I mean this now as well

I care about you differently

That’s the only truth I have to tell

You don’t have to call it nothing

Just because it couldn’t stay

I loved you when I told you

And I won’t lie to you today

I meant it then.