This Time

These walls and all these picture frames
Every name they show
These halls I've walked a thousand times
Heartbreaks and valentines, friends of mine all know.

I look at everything I was
And everything I ever loved
And I can see how much I've grown.

And though the mirror doesn't see it
It's clear to me, I feel it
I can make it on my own.

I'm not afraid of moving on and letting go
It's just so hard to say goodbye to what I know, I know.

This time no one's gonna say goodbye
I keep you in this heart of mine
This time I know it's never over.

No matter who or what I am
I'll carry where we all began
This time that we had, I will hold forever.

This old familiar place is
Where every face is another part of me
I played a different game then
They called me a different name then
I think of all the things I did and how I wish I knew what I know now.

I see how far I've come and what I got right
When I was looking for that spotlight
I was looking for myself.

Got over what I was afraid of
I showed 'em all that I was made of
More than trophies on a shelf.

For all the battles that we lost or might have won
I never stopped believing in the words we sung, we sung.

This time no one's gonna say goodbye
I keep you in this heart of mine
This time I know it's never over.

No matter who or what I am
I'll carry where we all began
This time that we had, I will hold forever.

I'm looking out from the crossroads
I don't know how far away I will roll
I take a breath, I close my eyes
Your voice will carry me home.

I keep you in this heart of mine
This time I know it's never over.

No matter who or what I am
I'll carry where we all began
This time that we had, I will hold
This time that we had, I will hold
This time that we had, I will hold
Forever.

Forever.