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

Ballad, art pop, Dream pop, despair, male, tension, build up, background Choir, folk, slow start, cinematic atmosphe