'We have' - Memories of You

We've Been in love.
_{(And out of love, and back in love once more before I won for good.)}

We've made promises that we meant to keep
_{(Secretly they were made to be broken [though we didn't know it] )}
But couldn't, due to lack of faith in ourselves
_{(Or so we say [to stave off the guilt for another day] )}

We've been through it all
_{(That was all I ever wanted)}
The Good and the bad
_{(any part of you I could get, I'd take)}
Through Hell and Back Again.
_{(That's what love feels like)}

We've taken our chances
_{(gambled with our lives)}
And fought long and hard
_{(But never bet against fate; we both believed in it)}
Just to get somewhere in this
_{(casino filled with hopes and dreams)}
Hell we call life.
_{(Funny how something so beautiful can also be so terrible)}

We've tried to escape
_{(Run hand in hand as far as our feet would take us)}
The reality forced upon us
_{(Reality is just a state of mind driven by people who are scared to dream)}
But we've never failed
_{(Only been struck by temporary setbacks)}
To clean up the messes we've made
_{(Wipe ourselves off the floor and sweep up the pieces of a shattered heart)}
In the process.
_{(Of stitching our wounds with thread made of hope for a better tomorrow)}

We've wished for sorrow to fly away
_{(Like a black balloon caught in a summer breeze)}
To Leave us alone for
_{(a day, a week, a month, a year, a lifetime...)}
Just A Little while
_{(That's the best you can bargain for when the affliction is in your heart)}
But never wished
_{(For despair to return)}
It upon anyone else
_{(The cruelest punishment by far, next to unending solitude)}
No matter what their crime
_{(a bullet fired, a heart broken, a life taken, a dream crushed.)}

We've seen each other at
_{(Every minute of every day for a year and three days)}
Our Best
_{(When we were made of smiles and laughter flew through the air infecting everyone around)}
And our Worst
_{(When the sunny side would disappear and we'd tear at each other until there was nothing left of either of us)}
And never once
_{(or twice, or three times)}
Did we think the other Ugly.
_{(Such a hurtful word, when it was our souls we were discussing and not our faces)}

We've lost many games
_{(because we played so many)}
to each other, not to the world
_{(Who couldn't care less about two drifters who never quite fit in anywhere, but fit everywhere)}
Because we played them often
_{(though they weren't always fun)}
And wouldn't quit until a loser was declared.
_{(After all, all's fair in love and [lust] war)}

We've tried to find a place to settle into
_{(because it was lonely sometimes with just the two of us)}
And discovered that we don't really fit in anywhere
_{(No matter how far we went, or how many times we refueled at the liquor store)}
But in each other's arms.
_{(there was no place else I'd rather have been; is that what scared you off?)}

We've had it all in our grasp
_{(joy, freedom, power [over each other], trust, midnight adventures under the star-lit sky and stolen kisses)}
But we threw it all away.
<sub>(That's just the way the ball bounces; this time I won because I was right- I was never good enough for you. How I wish I'd been the loser. Oh wait...)

(And I wouldn't trade the dull throbbing under my ribcage that comes with all these memories of you for anything- not all the money in the world- because)</sub>
We've been in love.