trying to keep you

Intro

(tonight I’ll tell the truth

I didn’t just lose your love

I lost myself trying to keep you)

Verse

I don’t miss you

I miss the person I became

I thought you were staying

Cause my heart still knew your name

You left, and so quietly

Like I even was worth the sound

one day I was your home

The next, just a background

Pre c

I keep replaying moments

Trying to find the crack

The second where I loved you more

Than I could ever get back

Chorus

I gave you my future

Before I gave it a thought

Now I live in the aftermath

Of everything that we weren’t

But i don’t cry the way I should

It just settles in my chest

Like grief that learned to whisper

So it doesn’t wake the rest

Verse

You were the place

I ran to

When the world got hard to stand

Now the world feels so endless

And I’ve got no place to land

Pre c

So how do you survive

When love was your only plan?

I didn’t just lose you

I lost who I was becoming as your man

Chorus

I gave you my future

Before I gave it a thought

Now I live in the aftermath

Of everything that we weren’t

But i don’t cry the way I should

It just settles in my chest

Like grief that learned to whisper

So it doesn’t wake the rest

(doesn’t wake the rest)

Nooooo

Bridge

I would’ve stayed through anything

Through silence, storms, and doubt

You didn’t have to break me

All yoy had to do

Was just to walk out

Chorus

I gave you my future

Before I gave it a thought

Now I live in the aftermath

Of everything that we weren’t

But i don’t cry the way I should

It just settles in my chest

Like grief that learned to whisper

So it doesn’t wake the rest

(doesn’t wake the rest)

Nooooo

Nooo nooo

Outro

one day I’ll say I’m better

But tonight I’ll tell the truth

I didn’t just lose your love

I lost myself trying to keep you