I'll Always Miss The Love I Left Behind (remix)

I'll Always Miss The Love I Left Behind (remix)

Words & Music by: Debra Lyn & Jeff Silverman
Debra Lyn Music/SESAC; Palette Music/BMI

“Even though you’ll never know, I’ll always miss the love I left behind.”

This song comes as the next day “hangover” reflective state of mind that she is in. At this point, she is exhausted of being continually beat up emotionally. While looking through an old class yearbook, she remembers an old love from high school. The grass is always greener when you’re looking back and wondering what might have been. Maybe she made the right choice or maybe she never should have let her first love go. Sometimes we glamorize the past too much and this song, even though more to the lyric than what I'm describing, feels like one of the many emotions that a failing marriage or someone that has a challenged love, might be going through or thinking. The fact remains – you can never go back.

Well my mom talked to yours this morning and I hear you’re doing fine
A new wife and a baby on your mind
I always thought that this would be the life for you and I
It was what I wanted and I let it pass me by
Sometimes I wish that I could turn back the hands of time

Chorus:
I need more than just a dream of what was possible
Doesn’t matter where I go I feel alone
all I have to hold are memories and I just can’t let go
Even though you’ll never know
I’ll always miss the love I left behind

All through high school and that last summer you were with me all the time
Until fall when I left you far behind
And in every conversation it would never cross my mind
That I took you for granted – how could I be so blind
What I would give if I could turn back the hands of time

Chorus:

I know I will be alright
I can almost sleep at night
Maybe time will heal this broken heart of mine
If I have the chance again
I will take fate by the hand
I won’t make the same mistake again