A TALE OF WHAT IS NOT MEANT TO BE lyrics

I stood at the edge of what could have been The wind whispered promises it never kept Shadows stretched where light should grow And silence filled the words you left I built a home in fleeting dreams But the walls collapsed with every try Your voice, a ghost, it lingers still A hollow truth I can't deny I gave my all to a fading spark Lost myself in the endless dark Every hope became a lie A fragile star in a breaking sky The moments cracked beneath the strain Each choice a fault, each path a wound I reached for meaning, found it bare A bitter lesson, cruelly tuned You were the fire, the flood, the fall I was the ash left in your wake The weight of what wasn't drags me down The quiet ache I cannot shake I gave my all to a fading spark Lost myself in the endless dark Every hope became a lie A fragile star in a breaking sky Did you feel the fractures grow? Did you see the cracks inside my soul? Or was I always just a fading light Too dim to guide you through the night? Now I carry the weight of what wasn't Every echo, every failed refrain But through the loss, I see the dawn Even disappointment fades in rain I am the shadow of what remains A quiet echo in the falling rain Disappointment lingers, cold and true A fleeting trace of me, and you