Saying we were nothing more than colleagues seemed to wound you
But the truth is i stopped counting the years in which we'rve known each other at 11
That also was the time at which i finally accepted that whatever we once were, we would never be again
Still, we spent two more years , trying to stitch that friendship back together,
patching every year as if effort alone could keep it from unravelin'
Now, sometimes, i find myself wondering
what it would have felt like to have had you for 17 years