What I Forsake

[Intro] [Verse 1] You'll never know the nights I bled The words I swallowed, left unsaid I walked away with shaking hands While every part of me still stands Beside you, wanting what I lost Nobody sees the hidden cost The weight I carry, dark and deep A wound too tired to even weep [Verse 2] I still remember how we'd start Two strangers trading nervous hearts A smile so wide it hurt my face You made the chaos feel like grace That's when I fell, I fell too far Into the gravity of who you are I feared the love before it grew 'Cause losing it meant losing you [Instrumental 2 bars] [Pre-Chorus] I bite my tongue, I hide the ache Holding on to what I forsake— [Chorus] I let you go to save us both A quiet, bitter, broken oath I loved you more than you could see Now silence is the only company I let you go, but god, it's true The hardest thing I ever had to do Was walk through fire just to leave the flame And whisper goodbye without a name [Verse 3] It made no sense how something true Could turn to ash the way it flew Maybe you saw nothing there But I saw everything, laid bare Something sacred, something real Too hard to name, too hard to feel We never got our chance to start Yet somehow still fell apart [Interlude] [Bridge] (soft, then building) No beginning, still an end No lover, still no friend Just quiet in an empty room Just shadows where the light once bloomed I carry you in every scar In every mile, no matter how far And no one knows, no one can see The war I fought to just be free [Pre-Chorus] I bite my tongue, I hide the ache Holding on to what I forsake— [Chorus] I let you go to save us both A quiet, bitter, broken oath I loved you more than you could see Now silence is the only company I let you go, but god, it's true The hardest thing I ever had to do Was walk through fire just to leave the flame And whisper goodbye without a name