How To Say Goodbye

(Intro - haunting cello fingerpicking)

(Verse 1)

My mind holds a graveyard of things you forgot

A sweater, a picture, the flowers that rot

I’m sitting in the silence of our unmade bed

Replaying the "always" and "forevers" you said

Falling further to the silence you made

As I’m watching all the promises fade

(Pre-Chorus)

My chest is wide open, a canyon of air

I’m reaching for something that never was there

The weight of the "almost" is crushing my bones

And I’m learning the silence of being alone.

(Chorus)

I’m suffocating on the space you left behind

In the darkened corners of a broken mind

You didn’t just leave, you took the light out of me

And left me to drown in a wide-open sea

It’s a quiet kind of dying, a slow-motion fall

To realize I meant nothing to you at all.

(Verse 2)

What happened to honesty and truth

I guess it wasn’t important enough to you

I’m tracing the scars where your words used to be

Before you became a stranger to me

I’m tired of the waiting, I’m tired of the lie

And I’m tired of asking the universe "why."

(Bridge)

You’ll find someone else to hollow out and discard

To leave them in the rearview, bruised and scarred

But I hope when you’re lonely, when the room starts to shrink

You’re forced to stay awake and actually think

About the heart you stepped on just to feel tall

About how it feels to know you ruined it all!

(Chorus)

I’m suffocating on the space you left behind

In the darkened corners of a broken mind

You didn’t just leave, you took the light out of me

And left me to drown in a wide-open sea

It’s a quiet kind of dying, a slow-motion fall

To realize I meant nothing to you at all.

(Outro)

I don’t want the "sorry."

I don’t want the "try."

I just want to remember...

How to say goodbye.