If a sculpture were to shatter
Is there beauty in the memory?
Baby, tell me would it matter
If you're happier, but after me?
Does loving someone ever go?
Does it need to end for you
To ever even really know?
All I know is when you're with me
That's right where I should be

Why are we waiting for the ending?
Turning the page before we've read it
Baby, don't cry
Goodbye isn't real
Why don't we dance around the exit
Until the music fades away?
At least at the curtain call, we'll say
That we tried, we tried, we tried

I wasn't anticipating
When I kissed you on new year's eve
We'd go from strangers to dating
To three words that I've heard but never received
Tell me, does it matter
That when you said that you loved me
Immediate reaction was to ask you what does love mean (what does love mean?)
If it's what I'm feeling right now
That's all we really need, oh

Why are we waiting for the ending? (Oh)
Turning the page before we've read it
Baby, don't cry
Goodbye isn't real
Why don't we dance around the exit (ah-oh)
Until the music fades away?
At least at the curtain call, we'll say
That we tried, we tried, we tried

We tried, we tried, we tried, oh

After all the sunsets
In three more years we'll meet back here
If we can't find our duet
The notes we write could reappear
If you've found someone else's hand to hold
Call it bittersweet
It won't be exact
But they'll have what I had

Why are we waiting for the ending?
Turning the page before we've read it
Baby, don't cry
Goodbye isn't real
Why don't we dance around the exit
Until the music fades away?
At least at the curtain call, we'll say
That we tried, we tried, we tried
(Okay)