Never Said Goodbye (Stripped)

[Intro: Briton Bond]
I never said goodbye

[Verse 1: Cody Quistad]
Nothin' could prepare me for that call
Dropped to my knees, threw my phone against the wall
Said you were gone and I didn't believe it
This isn't real, I just gotta be dreamin'
It's never fair, you were taken way too soon
Feels like a knife in the heart, an open wound
Won't ever heal 'cause I'm tryna make sense
Of a world where you're not in existence

[Pre-Chorus: Cody Quistad]
I know, yeah, I know, we never know our time
But I don't understand what's on the the other side
I know, yeah, I know, it's just a part of life
But I'm still askin' why

[Chorus: Briton Bond, Cody Quistad]
Why'd I never say what I meant to?
All those things I wanted to tell you
I know you're home now, in a better place
But I'm still searching for the words to say
I wish I would've known it was the last time
'Cause I never said goodbye

[Verse 2: Cody Quistad]
Hard to think that you're never coming home
And now you rest in a field beneath your stone
I find peace in the silence around me
And in the calm I can feel you surrounding
I don't think that I'll ever understand
One day we're here, then we fall like grains of sand
Do we wade in the pain that we live in?
Or make the most of the time we're given?

[Chorus: Briton Bond, Cody Quistad]
Why'd I never say what I meant to?
All those things I wanted to tell you
I know you're home now, in a better place
But I'm still searching for the words to say
I wish I would've known it was the last time
'Cause I never said goodbye

[Pre-Chorus: Briton Bond, Cody Quistad]
I know, yeah, I know, we never know our time
But I don't understand what's on the the other side
Yeah, I know, yeah, I know, it's just a part of life
I'll never know why

[Chorus: Briton Bond, Briton Bond, Cody Quistad]
Why'd I never say what I meant to? (Meant to)
All those things I wanted to tell you (Those things I wanted to tell you, oh)
I know you're home now in a better place
But I'm still searching for the words to say
I wish I would've known it was the last time
'Cause I never said goodbye

[Outro: Briton Bond, Cody Quistad]
I never said, never said, never said goodbye
I never said, never said, never said goodbye ('Cause I never said goodbye)
I never said, never said, never said goodbye
I never said, never said, never said goodbye ('Cause I never said)