The Love We Almost Had - Rhiannon Giddens

My heart is in another’s keeping, all but one small part

A piece that somehow found its way to hide inside your heart

I can go a day or three with not one thought of you

But then I see your crooked smile that draws me back into

The way you almost held my hand, dear

The time you kissed my cheek

The words that never left your lips, love

But I heard week after week

The waltzes that we left untaken

The glances drove us mad

The life we didn’t live together

And the love that we almost had

I remember it so clearly, the day you first came in

The bright light in your eye, the brown velvet of your skin

The instant ancient understanding of what I already knew

That spark of useless fire, the pull that led us to

The way you almost held my hand, dear

The time you kissed my cheek

The words that never left your lips, love

But I heard week after week

The waltzes that we left untaken

The glances drove us mad

The life we didn’t live together

And the love that we almost had

The way you almost held my hand, dear

The time you kissed my cheek

The words that never left your lips, love

But I heard week after week

Waltzes that we left untaken

The glances drove us mad

The life we didn’t live together

And the love that we almost had

Oh, the love that we almost had

The love that we almost had-had-had, had-had-had