You were a face in the crowd 
I threw myself onto you
I tried to take you away
I didn't know how to do 
But I could not give you the most
Some things I said were never [bad word] 

Yet still we clung to a ghost 
I feel so bad you never knew 
I felt like you should know
But I could not tell you so

When you walked away 
I breathed your name
As you walked away
As you walked away

We can never get back what we choose to throw away

When you walked away 
I breathed your name
As you walked away
As you walked away

We can never get it back what we choose to throw away

I don't know how to hold on to something, that seems determined to crow by the day
Every time, I think I can handle, you only seem to get farther away
I never realized just how hard it was for a person like me to do
For a person like me to do

When you walked away 
I breathed your name
As you walked away
As you walked away

We can never get back what we choose to throw away

When you walked away 
I breathed your name
As you walked away
As you walked away

We can never get back what we choose to throw away

I couldn't watch you, wishing for something that seemed more impossible by the day
Every time I saw your expression I only seemed [bad word] farther away 
I never realized just how hard this was for a person like me to do

Obsessed with thoughts that deform 
Held on by hope to the one
Crippled because of chains 
That eclipse reality
 [bad word] into [bad word] we all perceive 
Without perceiving 

I couldn't hold on to, the things that matter to you
It was my big mistake 
Thinking there were two roads to take 

As you walked away (x7)