We never really ended

It didn’t break, it just grew quiet
Like a fire losing flame
No slammed doors, no final words
Just space where you once stayed
We said it’s better this way
Like we both believed the lie
But love was still in the room
When we said goodbye
Pre-Chorus
We didn’t fall apart
We just let go too soon
Now I carry half of you
In everything I do
Chorus
’Cause we never really ended
We just stopped trying to hold
All the pieces we were building
When our hands got cold
And I still feel you in the silence
In the nights I can’t pretend
It’s hard to move on from something
That never really ended
Verse 2
I don’t talk about you much now
But you live between my ribs
In the pauses of my sentences
In the songs I never finish
I’ve met someone who makes me laugh
But it’s not the same kind of spark
It’s hard to light a brand new fire
When you’re still guarding old embers in the dark
Bridge (veldig naken, nesten bare gitar og stemme)
If I saw you on the street
Would we smile like we’re okay?
Or would the truth come rushing back
In everything we wouldn’t say?
Sometimes I think you feel it too
But we’re too proud to call
So we let it be unfinished
And pretend that’s not a fall
Final Chorus (litt større, men fortsatt sår)
’Cause we never really ended
We just learned how not to speak
About the way our hearts still bend
Every time we meet
And maybe someday I’ll let you go
In the way I should have then
But tonight I’ll just admit it —
We never really ended.

Country ballade