[VOICE 1 — smoky female alto, intimate and warm] I thought that loving you meant standing still, like moving forward meant I’d leave you too. But maybe love was never meant to end just because the years with you were through. I loved you more than I ever said. More than I knew how to explain. You were the life I got to hold before the world took you away. [VOICE 2 — warm male baritone, rich and emotional] Moving on, moving on, moving on, doesn’t mean I’m leaving you. Moving on, moving on, moving on, doesn’t make our love less true. You were the one I got to love for all the time that we were given. And nothing after you can change how deeply I loved you while you were living. [VOICE 3 — clear male tenor, vulnerable and rising] If somebody makes me laugh again, I hope you’d want me to let them stay. If another heart should reach for mine, I hope you’d never turn away. [FEMALE RAPPER — low, husky, controlled spoken flow] They will never be you. And I would never ask them to be. Another love can find my heart without taking you from me. [VOICE 4 — powerful husky female mezzo, soulful and liberating] Moving on, moving on, moving on, I can love and still hold on. Moving on, moving on, moving on, loving again won’t make you gone. I loved you. I loved you completely. I loved the life we had, and the life we never got to see. [VOICE 1 to VOICE 2 to VOICE 3 to VOICE 4 — each line passes into the next voice] And I don’t need to hurt forever to prove that you were real. I can keep you in my heart and still allow myself to heal. [ALL FOUR — building harmony] Moving on, moving on, moving on, doesn’t mean forgetting you. It means I finally understand that both loves can be true. [VOICE 4] I loved you then. [VOICE 2] I love what we were. [ALL FOUR — sustained, resolved] And now— I’m going to live.
