[Intro] I still dream of your scent on my torn shirt, I wake up and search for you in the sheet that no longer warms. I want to look into your eyes and tear my throat apart telling you I love you while I kneel in the storm. I clung to the past like someone clinging to the edge, I let the years cut my hands, and the mere idea of not being your destiny turned me into a walking corpse inside for years.[Pre-chorus] I was afraid and stayed silent, I hid like a thief from my own life, I preferred to invent an ending without goodbye than to risk you telling me you were no longer mine. [Chorus] Your smile was my religion and I profaned it, your eyes my sky and I myself extinguished them. When you sang, you only looked at me and now I sing alone and no one looks at me like that. That song that was ours is the knife I slowly stab myself with every night to keep feeling that something of yours touches me. [Verse 2] When I cried, you were the only port, you dried my tears with your velvet voice, you stayed until I fell asleep dead and left me alive only to die again the next day. You took my hand so many times and I never squeezed hard for fear that you'd discover I trembled from loving you until it hurt. [Bridge – broken voice] And now I pay with blood for every second of silence, I live repeating your name like a prayer that does no good. I lost you for being a coward, I lost you for being a child, I lost you and I'm still here pretending to breathe.[Final Chorus – almost breathless] Let me scream that I never stopped loving you, even if you now have another hand to dry your tears. Let me tell you that I die every night remembering how I let you go because I didn't know how to hold you. This distance that I myself marked is the wound that will never close, because I opened it with my own hands the day I was afraid of losing you and ended up losing you forever. [Outro – a whisper that fades away] I miss you… I miss you… I miss you so much that I no longer have voice or life or anything left. Forgive me. Or forget me. But don't let me keep living dead.

I Lost You for Being a Coward