Where I Chose Myself

We didn't lose each other
We just found different skies

No shattered glass, no slammed doors
No poison words on the floor
Just quiet nights and heavy air
Two hearts aware
We felt the future pulling tight
In different directions that night
You saw a home, I saw the road
Neither of us wrong

When love is real, it doesn't lie
But sometimes love can't survive

I found my heart when I found you
But I found my path there too
And staying meant I'd slowly fade
Into someone I never made
It could've been forever, maybe
But not if I betrayed me
So I chose the fire inside myself
Even if it burned us down

You were peace I never knew
A kind of safe I almost chose
For a moment I believed
Love was enough
But every mirror told the truth
If I stayed, I'd lose my youth
Not in years, but in my soul
And that cost more

We weren't broken, we were brave
To walk away from what we crave

I found my heart when I found you
But I found my calling too
And loving you meant losing me
In a quiet tragedy
It could've been forever, maybe
But forever can't erase me
So I chose the fire inside myself
Even if it burned us down

One day you'll understand
It wasn't lack of love
It was too much truth
To live on half a dream
I won't regret your name
Or the way we shined
Some loves don't fail
They just divide

I found my strength when I lost you
And I found out I could move
Love should never ask a man
To bury who he is
It could've been forever, maybe
But I had to save me
So I chose the fire inside myself
And walked into the unknown

I found my heart when I found you
But I found my calling too
And loving you meant losing me
In a quiet tragedy
It could've been forever, maybe
But forever can't erase me
So I chose the fire inside myself
Even if it burned us down