What Should Have Been – (Official Audio)

This song came from losing my mom recently. Our relationship wasn’t easy, but she was still someone I loved deeply. Grief gets complicated when you carry love and regret together. I wrote ‘What Should Have Been’ hoping other people walking through unfinished pain could see themselves in it. If it reaches you… I’m grateful.

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Credits:
Artist: Sean Patrick Riggs
Performed by: S&S Session Artist (Local Partner)
Produced by: Sickle & Scythe Music
Label: Sickle & Scythe Records
Publisher: Sickle & Scythe Publishing
Distributed by: DK Records: 10862414
UPC: 199949852655
© 2025 Sickle & Scythe Holdings LLC — All Rights Reserved.

Lyrics:

I’m standing here beside your name.
Written in Cold Stone, it doesn't seem fair
The wind’s blowing, starting to get cold out here
Oh, it almost sounds like a whisper in the air
We tried to love with broken hearts
You were fighting demons I couldn’t see
I carried scars you didn’t know
Two lost souls out of place

And I miss the person you should’ve been
And the person you wished you could’ve been
There’s a lot of roads we never traveled
A lot of words left unsaid

So rest now, kept in hands that never failed you
Somewhere the hurt can’t chase you like it used to
I’m laying down the weight I carried in
For the person you should’ve been
And I trust the One who held you through the years
To mend what broke in silence and in tears
It’s not goodbye, it’s just the quiet in-between
He will bring healing from the pain

I never got the person I needed
But I know you tried in your own way
Addiction burns like gasoline
And it stole more from you every day
But sometimes I saw you fighting back
Just flashes of who you were inside
And I know you wished you could’ve stood
Instead of falling every time you tried

And I miss the person you should’ve been
And the person you wished you could’ve been
Two beating hearts with too much history
Trying not to break again

So rest now, kept in hands that never failed you
Somewhere the hurt can’t chase you like it used to
I’m laying down the weight I carried in
For the person you should’ve been
And I trust the One who held you through the years
To mend what broke in silence and in tears
It’s not goodbye, it’s just the quiet in-between
He will bring healing from the pain

And if heaven opens gentle
And the pain drops at Your feet
I pray you found the peace you chased
In every long and lonely street
I’ll bring a flower to your memory
And a song for what we missed
Knowing God restores the stories
This world could never fix

So rest now, kept in hands that never failed you
All your battles finally through
I’m letting go, but love still burns within
For the person I needed you to be
It’s not goodbye, it’s just the quiet in-between
Till His promise gathers us again