Lyrics

**Verse 1**
The alarm goes off at seven
But I’ve been awake since two
Counting cracks across the ceiling
Trying not to think of you

I shave, button up my collar
Catch the same old downtown train
Everybody’s going somewhere
I’m just riding with this pain

The man beside me reads his paper
Two women laugh across the aisle
I wonder how the whole world keeps moving
When I haven’t moved one mile

**Pre-Chorus**
The clock keeps dragging forward
But my heart stays where you left
Since you took your love away, girl
Time has become my punishment

**Chorus**
Every day feels like forever
Every hour wears me down
Morning takes a year to leave me
Night takes longer coming around

Every day feels like forever
Since your loving left my life
I’ve been living seven lifetimes
Just trying to make it through one night

Oh, baby, without you near me
Time ain’t doing what it should
Every day feels like forever
Since forever lost its good

**Verse 2**
I stopped inside that little market
Where you used to buy your tea
The cashier asked me where you’d been
And I lied and said, “She’s doing fine with me”

I carried one small bag back home
To a table made for two
Sat there till the food went cold
Because eating felt like betraying you

I found your number in my wallet
Written in your careful hand
My thumb stayed there above it
But I knew you’d found another plan

**Pre-Chorus**
You said I never gave you minutes
When your heart was asking years
Now I’ve got more time than I can stand
And nobody here to hear

**Chorus**
Every day feels like forever
Every hour calls your name
I keep walking through the motions
But nothing ever feels the same

Every day feels like forever
Since your key stopped turning here
A man can live through hunger
But this loneliness is hard to bear

**Bridge**
I used to hurry through your stories
Half-listening while you spoke
Now I’d give anything to hear you
Tell me one I already know

I thought love could wait till later
Like later belonged to me
But time don’t owe a man tomorrow
And love don’t stay where it can’t breathe

If I had one day beside you
I’d spend each second differently
I’d listen before you started crying
And love you before you had to leave

**Final Chorus**
Every day feels like forever
But forever ain’t enough
To undo the careless moments
When I failed to honor us

Every day feels like forever
And the blame keeps perfect time
Every tick reminds this broken man
He let a faithful woman walk out of his life

Oh, baby, since you left me
The sun takes years to cross the sky
Every day feels like forever
And forever won’t tell me why

**Outro**
Tomorrow’s waiting at the window
But I’m afraid to let it in
It’ll be another lifetime
Of remembering what could have been

Every day feels like forever
Every night starts it again
I’m learning how long one day can be
When it doesn’t end with you.