Remember To Forget You

Verse 1

Your shadow still drinks the light

In every room I’m in

I leave the window open wide

Let the night come in

I talk to dust on the shelf

Like it knows my name

I keep a map of someone else

Folded in my brain

Chorus

I’m learning how to close my hands

Around what’s already gone

I’m learning how to lose the land

I’ve been standing on

I write it down, I erase it yet

Like it’s something I can set

I’m learning how to remember to forget

Verse 2

Your echo sleeps in the walls

Like it pays its rent

Time keeps knocking, I let it stall

On what it meant

I water things that never grew

Just to feel them die

I call it hope, I call it you

I don’t ask why

Chorus

I’m learning how to close my hands

Around what’s already gone

I’m learning how to lose the land

I’ve been standing on

I hold my breath, I don’t confess

How every thought is bent

I’m learning how to remember to forget

Bridge

If memory is a tide

Then I stay too long

I watch the moon decide

What I’m holding on

Tell me where the leaving ends

And the quiet starts

I keep my keys, I break the bends

Of my own heart

Final Chorus

I’m learning how to close my hands

Around what I can’t keep

I’m learning how to lose the land

That still remembers me

I let it fade, I let it set

Like a star that hasn’t left

I’m learning how to remember to forget