The Love We Almost Had Lyrics - Rhiannon Giddens

My heart is in another's keeping 

All but one small part 

A piece that somehow found its way 

To hide inside your heart 

I can go a day or three 

With not one thought of you 

But then I see a crooked smile 

That draws me back into 

The way you almost held my hand, dear 

The time you kissed my cheek 

The words that never left your lips, love 

But I heard week after week 

The waltzes that we left untaken 

The glances drove us mad 

The life we didn't live together 

And the love that we almost had 

I remember it so clearly 

The day you first came in 

The bight light in your eye 

The brown velvet of your skin 

The instant ancient understanding 

Of what I already knew 

That spark of useless fire 

The pull that led us to 

The way you almost held my hand, dear 

The time you kissed my cheek 

The words that never left your lips, love 

But I heard week after week 

The waltzes that we left untaken 

The glances drove us mad 

The life we didn't live together 

And the love that we almost had 

The way you almost held my hand, dear 

The time you kissed my cheek 

The words that never left your lips, love 

But I heard week after week 

The waltzes that we left untaken 

The glances drove us mad 

The life we didn't live together 

And the love that we almost had 

Oh, the love that we almost had 

The love that we almost had