[Verse 1]
I wake beneath the weight of what we were,
A ghost still screaming through these empty walls.
Every photograph becomes a loaded gun,
Every memory waits for me to fall.
I carved your name into the scars I hide,
Mistook the pain for something I could save.
But every road I take keeps pointing back
To the ruins of the life I couldn't change.
[Pre-Chorus]
I tried to bury you—
But you were buried in me.
I tried to kill the past—
It kept learning how to breathe.
[Chorus]
So let it burn!
Let the ashes choke the sky!
I won't keep dragging your shadow
Through the rest of my life!
I will break!
Every chain that holds me down!
If moving on means losing you—
Then I'll lose you now!
[Verse 2]
There's a war between the person I became
And the one who still begs you to return.
One says, “Remember.”
One says, “Walk away.”
Both of them are waiting for the world to burn.
I fed the fire with a thousand “what ifs,”
Built a cathedral out of my regret.
But no god lives inside those hollow walls,
And no amount of suffering brings you back again.
[Pre-Chorus]
I tried to bury you—
But you were buried in me.
Now I'm digging through the wreckage
Just to find what's left of me.
[Chorus]
So let it burn!
Let the ashes choke the sky!
I won't keep dragging your shadow
Through the rest of my life!
I will break!
Every chain that holds me down!
If moving on means losing you—
Then I'll lose you now!
[Breakdown]
ENOUGH!
I am not your memory!
I am not your grave!
I am not the broken thing
You left behind to save!
Cut the thread!
Kill the echo!
Let the silence take its place!
I would rather face tomorrow
Than keep dying in yesterday!
[Bridge]
Maybe healing isn't painless.
Maybe freedom leaves a scar.
Maybe letting go is knowing
You can love what was
Without becoming what you lost.
And for the first time—
I don't look back.
[Final Chorus]
LET IT BURN!
Let the ashes choke the sky!
I won't drag your shadow
Through the rest of my life!
I WILL BREAK!
Every chain that held me down!
The past can scream my name—
But it can't pull me back now!
[Outro]
The fire fades.
The night moves on.
I still remember.
But I am gone—
From the place where I was dying
Just to keep you alive.
I let you go.
And I survive.