[Verse 1] I keep saying I'm alright Like saying it makes it true I keep finding little reasons Not to talk about me and you You ask me what I'm feeling And I tell you what you need Then I lie awake beside you Trying not to hear you breathe It's strange how something beautiful Can become so hard to hold How you can reach for someone's hand And still feel completely alone [Pre-Chorus] I don't want another promise I don't need another lie I just want the truth between us Even if it says goodbye [Chorus] If you love me Don't keep me here Don't hold me close Just because you're scared If you love me Let me disappear Take back the words That I still hear I don't need you to choose me I need you to set me free 'Cause the hardest thing about losing you Is knowing you won't let me leave [Verse 2] I know the shape of your silence I know when you're pretending I know the way you look away When you know we're reaching the ending And I hate that I still want you After everything we've said There's a part of me that misses you Before we broke what we had Maybe that's the cruelest part We didn't stop loving each other We just stopped knowing how to love Without hurting one another [Pre-Chorus] So don't tell me that you're sorry If you're only sorry I'm gone Don't kiss me like you mean forever Then leave me waiting for the dawn [Chorus] If you love me Don't keep me here Don't hold me close Just because you're scared If you love me Let me disappear Take back the words That I still hear I don't need you to choose me I need you to set me free 'Cause the hardest thing about losing you Is knowing you won't let me leave [Bridge] And maybe you're hurting And maybe I'm hurting too Maybe neither one of us Knows what we're supposed to do Maybe I became your shelter While you became mine And somewhere between needing you We forgot how to survive So if you're going to leave me Please don't leave the door half-open Don't give me one more reason To believe we're not broken [Breakdown] I won't ask you to stay I won't ask you to lie I won't ask you for forever Just don't make me say goodbye If there's nothing left to save Then let it hurt Let it end Don't turn love into a prison Just because we can't pretend [Final Chorus] If you love me Don't keep me here Don't hold me close Just because you're scared If you love me Let me disappear Take back the words That I still hear I don't need you to choose me I need you to set me free And maybe you'll understand someday What you couldn't give to me [Outro]
