Love Remains

There are apologies that arrive too late and mine has your address Spent so long rehearsing reasons they started sounding like defence Could tell myself the distance was something neither of us chose But both of us know better and that's probably why you had to go So keep the life you made without me Keep the peace that leaving gave Nothing here deserves forgiveness But love remains Love remains Long after being wanted Long after having any place Love remains Love remains... There were nights my temper spoke first and mornings pride refused to bend Made an enemy of tenderness then wondered where the tenderness went Could call it being young Could dress it up as being scared But explanations aren't repentance when somebody else had to live through them So keep the life you made without me Keep the peace that leaving gave Nothing here deserves forgiveness But love remains Love remains Long after being wanted Long after having any place Love remains And maybe that's the punishment Not losing you Knowing exactly why it happened Knowing somewhere there's a version of your life that finally feels calm because I'm absent from it Fuck. That one stays. Could tear your name from every photograph Could train my tongue to never speak it Could bury every year beneath another and pretend that means I've beaten it BUT LOVE DOESN'T ASK IF IT'S ALLOWED TO STAY IT DOESN'T LEAVE BECAUSE IT CAME TOO LATE IT DOESN'T CARE WHO CARRIED ALL THE BLAME IT JUST REMAINS IT JUST REMAINS So keep the life you made without me Keep every mile between this place and yours No request for reconciliation No hand reaching through a closing door Some things end exactly when they should Some people leave because they finally could And somewhere underneath everything that changed Love remains Love remains Not enough to bring you back Not enough to make this right Not enough to earn another chance Just enough to survive Love remains Oh-oh-oh... Oh-oh-oh... Love remains.