Ashes

(Intro)

I miss you...

(Verse 1)

I can't trust my voice to speak

I can't trust my heart to beat

Every time the phone lights up with your name

It’s a different kind of torture, a different kind of game.

I type a generic answer, I say that I’m okay

But I’m dying on the inside, fighting through the day.

Every time I see your face inside my mind

I try hard not to cry, try to leave it all behind.

(Chorus)

My heart aches, my eyes burn

Try so hard to keep it in, to never let you learn

That all the promises you once made

Now, they're turning into ashes

Just like my smile faded away.

Yeah, it’s a cruel and twisted irony, a bitter little lie

You were my only reason to smile

Now you're what makes me cry.

(Verse 2)

Long midnight conversations

Turned now into a dream

We talk about our pasts, our insecurities

But we never talk about the space between the lines

Or how I’m breaking down while I say that I’m fine.

We’re so close to the edge, but we never took the leap

Now I’m talking to a ghost that I promised I would keep.

(Bridge)

And the hardest part of all this hell

Is knowing that you don't really feel the same, I know it too well.

But I’m terrified to listen, terrified to feel

Not to hear you say to me

'I love you, babe', and have it real.

Because it isn't real, we’re just drifting in the dark

Then why do you still hold the only matches to my spark?

(Chorus)

My heart aches, my eyes burn

Try so hard to keep it in, will I ever learn?

All the promises you once made

Now, they're turning into ashes

Just like my smile faded away.

Yeah, it’s a cruel and twisted irony, a bitter little lie

You were my only reason to smile

Now you're what makes me cry.

(Outro)

Now you're what makes me cry.

Turning into ashes...

(Spoken/Whispered)

I miss you...