Last night I heard my own heart beating
Sounded like footsteps on my stairs
Six months gone and I'm still reaching
Even though I know you're not there
Lorelai still couldn't believe she had survived the last six months, after breaking her engagement to Luke.
I was playing back a thousand memories baby
Thinkin bout everything we've been through
Maybe I've been going back too much lately
When time stood still and I had you
She remembered how long it had taken for them to realize that they belonged together. Emily had pointed it out very quickly, when Luke had brought ice to Rory's Sweet Sixteen party, and when Richard had been in the hospital that Christmastime. Everyone had seen it, even Sookie, who was generally wrapped up in Jackson, cooking, or both. He had always been right there when she needed him. She hadn't wanted to let that go. Come back come back come back to me here like
You would you would if this was a movie
Stand in the rain outside til I came out
Lorelai knew that her life wasn't a movie. Luke wasn't just going to appear out of nowhere and pick up right where they'd left off.
Come back come back come back to me like
You could you could if you just said you're sorry
I know that we could work it out somehow
But if this was a movie you'd be here by now
Lorelai also knew that both she and Luke had a lot to apologize for. He, for concealing April and Anna from Lorelai, and she, for pushing him when he was uncertain about how to process the fact that he had a daughter.
I know people change and these things happen
But I remember how it was back then
Wrapped up in your arms and our friends are laughing
Cause nothing like this ever happened to them
Blessed. That was how Lorelai had felt with Luke. Blessed, safe, loved and protected.
Now I'm pacing down the hall
Chasing down your street
Flashback to the night when you said to me
Nothing's gonna change not for me and you
Not before I knew how much I had to lose
Lorelai remembered their first date. Dinner wasn't even served yet, and Luke had said to her, "This thing we're doing? I want you to know that I am in. I am all in." Come back come back come back to me here like
You would you would if this was a movie
Stand in the rain outside til I came out
Come back come back come back to me like
You could you could if you just said you're sorry
I know that we could work it out somehow
But if this was a movie you'd be here by now
If Luke would come back, just come over one time, Lorelai knew that they could fix the mess between them. Their uncommunicativeness was compacted by each one's pride.
If you're out there, if you're somewhere, if you're moving on
I'd be waiting for you ever since you've been gone
I just want it back the way it was before
And I just wanna see you back at my front door
Loelai just wanted to be the way they were before.
And I'd say Come back come back come back to me here like
You would before you said it's not that easy
Before the fight, before I left you out
But I'd take it all back now
If she could, she would rewind time, back to the night of the breakup. Instead of issuing an ultimatum and walking away, she would have gone inside with him and told him how she felt: the confusion, the ambiguity, the fear she had that they weren't going to make it.
Come back come back come back to me here like You'd be here by now
You would you would if this was a movie
Stand in the rain outside til I came out
Come back come back come back to me like
You could you could if you just said you're sorry
I know that we could work it out somehow
But if this was a movie you'd be here by now
It's not the kind of ending you wanna see now
Baby what about the ending
Oh I thought you'd be here by now oh ohh ohh ohh
That you'd be here by now
Lorelai looked out the window in her living room, and was surprised to see Luke. He was shoveling the fresh November snow off of her front walk. She ran out to him, in the freezing cold, and pulled him inside. He came willingly, the look on his face curious, but guarded. She drew him inside and wrapped her arms around him. "I love you." she whispered into his ear. He tightened their embrace, and soaked in the feeling he'd been missing for so long. "I love you, too." he said, softly, and kissed her. Lorelai smiled. Her life was a movie.