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THE LAST TIME

Valentina · Howling Moon Music

Album: SONGS TO CRY TO · Track 6
Meditation / Healing
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The Story Behind This Song

The cruel thing about "the last time" is that you usually don't know it's the last time while it's happening.

The last conversation. The last hug. The last ordinary moment before everything changes. If you had known, maybe you would have held on longer, listened harder, memorized every detail.

The Last Time lives inside that terrible hindsight. It's for anyone who keeps replaying a moment because they never got a proper goodbye — and would give almost anything to go back and understand that this ordinary little moment was about to become a memory.

Lyrics

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know it was the last time…

VERSE 1

I found an old photograph tonight

From a summer evening washed in golden light

You were looking back at me

Like the world was exactly where it should be

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know it was the last time…

We were lost inside that ordinary day

Never thinking it could slip away

But holding that memory in my hands

I finally saw what I couldn’t understand

PRE-CHORUS

If I’d known what I know now

If somebody could’ve told me somehow

CHORUS


I thought we had more time

I thought we had more time

One more laugh

One more drive

One more sunset in your eyes

I thought we had more time

I thought we had more time

I didn’t know

I didn’t know

I didn’t know it was the last time

POST-CHORUS HOOK

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know it was the last time…

Last time…

Last time…

I didn’t know it was the last time…

VERSE 2

Funny how forever disappears

Without a warning, without a tear

No flashing lights, no final song

Just one day here and the next day gone
I didn’t know…

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know it was the last time…

You kissed my cheek and walked away

Like we’d do a thousand other days

Neither one of us could ever see

How much that moment someday meant to me
I didn’t know…

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know it was the last time…

PRE-CHORUS

I’d give anything right now

For one more minute somehow

CHORUS

I thought we had more time

I thought we had more time

One more call

One more night

One more chance to make things right

I thought we had more time

I thought we had more time

I didn’t know

I didn’t know

I didn’t know it was the last time

POST-CHORUS

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know it was the last time…

Last time…

Last time…

I didn’t know it was the last time…

BRIDGE

Nobody tells you when it’s over

Nobody says “this is goodbye”

Nobody hands you a warning

Nobody stops the hands of time

You just walk away believing

You’ll see them one more time

And that’s the part that breaks you

’Cause sometimes…

You don’t

FINAL CHORUS

I thought we had more time

I thought we had more time

One more hug

One more smile

One more little while

I thought we had more time

I thought we had more time

I didn’t know

I didn’t know

I didn’t know it was the last time

OUTRO

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know…

I didn’t know it was the last time…

Last time…

Last time…

I thought we had more time…
I thought we had more time…
I thought we had more time…

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