## Metadata
**Caption:** pop ballad, 1987, dramatic strings, emotional, slow-mid tempo, 90 bpm, female vocal
**BPM:** 120
**Duration:** 171.0s
**Key:** E major
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
I still remember the way the candles burned
The nights we promised and the pages that we turned
Somewhere between the dreaming and the plans
Everything slipped quietly right out of our hands

[verse]
We built a castle out of words and time
Painted every window with a hopeful rhyme
But castles make of promises can fall
When nobody's there to catch us when we stall

[chorus]
Didn't we come so close to holding it all
Didn't we almost catch the stars before they'd fall
We had the fire, we had the flame
Didn't we almost have it all, before it changed

[verse]
Now the picture frames are gathering the dust
Still I wonder what became of all that trust
Maybe the ending was written from the start
But some of it still lingers in my heart

[chorus]
Didn't we come so close to holding it all
Didn't we almost catch the stars before they'd fall
We had the fire, we had the flame
Didn't we almost have it all, before it changed

[bridge]
No use in blaming shadows for the fall
We reached so high, we nearly had it all
And even though the ending wasn't kind
I'll keep the best of you inside my mind

[chorus]
Didn't we come so close to holding it all
Didn't we almost catch the stars before they'd fall
We had the fire, we had the flame
Didn't we almost have it all, before it changed