trying to keep you

Intro 

(tonight I’ll tell the truth
I didn’t just lose your love
I lost myself trying to keep you)

Verse 

I don’t miss you
I miss the person I became
I thought you were staying
Cause my heart still knew your name

You left, and so quietly
Like I even was worth the sound
one day I was your home
The next, just a background

Pre c 

I keep replaying moments
Trying to find the crack
The second where I loved you more
Than I could ever get back


Chorus 

I gave you my future
Before I gave it a thought
Now I live in the aftermath
Of everything that we weren’t

But i don’t cry the way I should
It just settles in my chest
Like grief that learned to whisper
So it doesn’t wake the rest


Verse 

You were the place 
I ran to
When the world got hard to stand
Now the world feels so endless
And I’ve got no place to land

Pre c 

So how do you survive
When love was your only plan?
I didn’t just lose you
I lost who I was becoming as your man


Chorus 

I gave you my future
Before I gave it a thought
Now I live in the aftermath
Of everything that we weren’t

But i don’t cry the way I should
It just settles in my chest
Like grief that learned to whisper
So it doesn’t wake the rest
(doesn’t wake the rest)
Nooooo

Bridge 

I would’ve stayed through anything
Through silence, storms, and doubt
You didn’t have to break me
All yoy had to do 
Was just to walk out 

Chorus 

I gave you my future
Before I gave it a thought
Now I live in the aftermath
Of everything that we weren’t

But i don’t cry the way I should
It just settles in my chest
Like grief that learned to whisper
So it doesn’t wake the rest
(doesn’t wake the rest)
Nooooo 
Nooo nooo 

Outro 
one day I’ll say I’m better
But tonight I’ll tell the truth
I didn’t just lose your love
I lost myself trying to keep you

Pop,rock,male, heroic