Learn To Let Go

I watched you fade between the moments
In the things we never said
Your voice still lives inside my head
But it's quieter instead

Pictures losing all their color
Promises turned into dust
I tried to hold what we were building
But it crumbled into us

Every step away from you
Cut deeper than it seemed
I learned how to breathe again
Letting go of what we'd been

I let you fade into the night
Like a shadow losing shape
It hurt, but I let you go
Before we shattered in the break

I let you fade, I didn't fight
Even when I wanted more
Some things have to disappear
So we don't bleed forevermore

I looked for you in different faces
But none of them were real
Silence taught me what I feared
What I didn't want to feel

Every memory weighs less now
When I stop holding tight
Not everything we love
Was meant to survive the night

I carried you inside my chest
Until it left a scar
I had to let you drift away
To remember who we are

I let you fade into the night
Like a shadow losing shape
It hurt, but I let you go
Before we shattered in the break

I let you fade, I didn't fight
Even when I wanted more
Some things have to disappear
So we don't bleed forevermore

If this is the end, let it be clean
No lies left to defend
I don't hate you, I don't blame you
I just can't stay till the end

I let you fade to save what's left of me
Not every goodbye means defeat
Sometimes letting go is strength
Sometimes it's survival underneath

I let you fade and learned to stand
With the weight I couldn't keep
Some memories still follow me
But they don't hurt when I sleep

I let you fade
And I stayed