Please let me go

[Verse 1 very intimate, breathy]

I try to forget you, but you live in my lungs
Every quiet moment, every road I’ve run
I push you away, then you pull me right back
Like loving you’s a habit I don’t know how to crack
I keep telling myself I’ll be fine somehow
But I’m already not who I was back then

[Pre-Chorus (almost whispered]

If I stay, I lose my name
If I leave, I feel the pain

Chorus

You need to leave
You’re like a drug I don’t need
And I’m losing myself completely
Bit by bit, every day
Please set me free
Please let me go
I’m fading right in front of me
You need to set me free
Before there’s nothing left of me

Verse 2

I don’t miss you — I miss who I become
When you make me feel like I’m someone
But when you’re gone, I’m barely there
Like I disappear into thin air
I hate that you feel like oxygen
I can’t tell where love ends
And where I depend

[Pre-Chorus quiet, cracked]

If I stay, I fade away
If I leave, I’m scared to face
Chorus
You need to leave
You’re like a drug I don’t need
And I’m losing myself completely
Bit by bit, every day
Please set me free
Please let me go
I’m fading right in front of me
You need to set me free
Before there’s nothing left of me

[Bridge low, spoken-sung]

I don’t wanna let you go
God, it hurts just thinking ‘bout it
Never feeling your arms again
Trying hard not to drown in doubt
But I gotta choose myself
Be the man I’m meant to be
Even if it breaks my heart
I’m letting go to save me

[Final Chorus / Outro (broken, repetitive, raw]

You need to leave
You need to let me go
Please set me free
Let me go
Please let me go
I’m losing myself completely
Slipping further every day
You need to set me free
Before there’s nothing left of me
Before there’s nothing left…
Nothing left of me

soul-pop / modern R&B confession
Male, raspy soulful tenor/baritone, warm grit, cracked falsetto on emotional peaks