At Somebody Else's Wedding

The invitation sat there on my table Three weeks before the seventh of june Your name was printed next to hers And somehow seeing it still hurt I almost threw it in the fireplace Almost let the silence win But i put on my old black dress And i walked through those doors again The garden lights were hanging above us Golden circles in the dark Your mother hugged me at the entrance Like she remembered who i was There was a photograph beside the flowers From a summer we left behind Two kids standing by the ocean Certain nothing could go wrong I thought your eyes would stop me breathing I thought i couldn't watch you leave But seeing you beside somebody else Was easier than i believed I'm standing at somebody else's wedding Watching the man i loved say "i do" And i thought this room would break me But i finally made it through There was a time i would've waited There was a time i would've stayed Now i'm raising up my glass slowly To the life we never made At somebody else's wedding I learned how to let go of you The piano played our old favorite song But it sounded different now Not like a promise we were keeping More like a voice across the room I saw the ring upon her finger The same way you once held mine And for the first time in a long time I didn't ask myself why Maybe we were built for that season Not the life we thought we'd be Maybe some roads only exist To lead us where we're meant to leave So here's to the girl who stayed too long Waiting for a sign to appear She finally stopped looking backward When the future was standing here I don't hate the love we had I don't wish it disappeared It gave me everything i needed To become who i am this year I'm standing at somebody else's wedding And i'm not the ghost i used to be The girl who thought she'd lost it all Finally learned she was still free There was a time i would've broken There was a time i would've begged you to stay Now i'm walking out into the evening With a whole new life calling my name At somebody else's wedding I finally walked away At somebody else's wedding I finally walked away At somebody else's wedding I found my own way home today