Let it burn

Title: Let It Burn (Refined w/ Light Ad-Libs)

Verse 1

I still see your shadow in the doorway light (still there)

Still hear your voice in the dead of night

Got your name sittin’ heavy on my tongue (damn)

Like a song I hate but I can’t outrun

Every picture, every place we knew

Feels like it’s frozen, stuck on you (stuck)

I keep reaching for what’s already gone

Like somehow holding on makes it not wrong

Pre-Chorus

But these hands are tired of breaking fall (so tired)

And this heart can’t fake it anymore

Chorus

So I’m gonna let it burn, let it ache, let it bleed (let it burn)

Every broken part of you inside of me

I was drowning in the past, couldn’t breathe (couldn’t breathe)

Now I know letting go is what I need

Yeah it hurts like hell, yeah it cuts real deep

But I’d rather feel than pretend you’re still with me (no pretending)

I’ve been holding on to something that’s done

Now I’m choosing me… I’m choosing to run (I’m gone)

Verse 2

I used to beg for what you wouldn’t give (why’d I?)

Tried to build a life on what we didn’t live

Every “maybe” kept me chained in place (locked down)

While you were already walking away

Now I see it clearer than I did before (clear now)

Love ain’t love if you’re keeping score

And I lost myself just to make it last (lost me)

But I won’t lose me to hold onto the past

Pre-Chorus

Yeah the silence screams but it tells the truth

There’s no fixing what we already blew (too late)

Chorus

So I’m gonna let it burn, let it ache, let it bleed (let it burn)

Every broken part of you inside of me

I was drowning in the past, couldn’t breathe (couldn’t breathe)

Now I know letting go is what I need

Yeah it hurts like hell, yeah it cuts real deep

But I’d rather feel than pretend you’re still with me (no pretending)

I’ve been holding on to something that’s done

Now I’m choosing me… I’m choosing to run

Bridge

I won’t romanticize the pain anymore (no more)

Won’t sit here waiting like before

You taught me what I won’t accept (lesson learned)

That kind of love ain’t worth the wreck

And maybe someday I’ll thank the fall (one day)

For teaching me I deserve it all

Final Chorus

So let it burn, let it fade to black (fade out)

No more turning ‘round, no looking back

I was lost in you, now I finally see (I see it)

There’s a whole damn world outside your memory

Yeah it hurts right now but I’ll be alright (I’ll be good)

I’m walking out into my own life

I’ve been holding on to something that’s done (it’s done)

Now I’m choosing me, yeah I’m finally done (finally free)

Outro

Your ghost don’t live here anymore (no it don’t)

I closed that chapter, shut that door

And every scar you left behind (every scar)

Is proof I loved… but chose my life (chose me)