[INTRO] No goodbye. No sudden break. I just stopped mistaking what remained for what would stay. [VERSE] Your shadow doesn't follow me the way it used to. But when the room goes still... I still turn around for you. [GROOVE] Every signal has gone quiet. Every wire has come loose. Still I find myself listening... like there's something left to lose. [ECHO] I kept calling it an echo. Maybe... it was only me. Holding onto every version of what we used to be. [CHORUS] Was I holding on to you or the way I came alive? Every time you pulled me close I could hear the whole night rise. If forever wasn't true, why does something still survive? Maybe I was holding onto who I became with you. [POST-CHORUS] Hold on... To what? [VERSE] I thought I missed your touch. Maybe I just missed my skin. The way it used to feel alive when you were living in it. I thought I heard you calling through every empty night. Then I finally stopped answering... and the silence sounded right. [PRE] No more fading transmission. No more reaching through the noise Funny how I knew your absence better than I knew my voice. [LIFT] I kept guarding what was over like it still could answer me. Maybe memory wasn't keeping you. Maybe it was keeping me from moving on. [CHORUS] Was I holding on to you or the way I came alive? Every time you pulled me close I could hear the whole night rise. If forever wasn't true, why does something still survive? Maybe I was holding onto who I became with you. [BREAK] If I finally let you go... what part of me goes with you? What part stays? I kept calling it forever... just because it wouldn't leave. [MIRROR] I was holding on to you. I was holding on to me. To the person in the mirror I thought I'd never see. [CHORUS] I was holding on to you, I was holding on to me. To a version of myself I thought I'd never get to keep. I don't need forever to know what we had was real. I can let you go now and still remember how it feels. [HOOK] Hold on... Hold on... Let go... [OUTRO] You're not under my skin tonight. But I remember when you were. I don't have to call it forever to know it was real.
