Bittersweet

You sit in the half-light,

gold through your hair

Say you’re okay but

nobody’s there

Your voice is a whisper,

cracking like glass

I try to hold onto

something that lasts

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And I know, I know

we’re running on fumes again

Every word you don’t say

cuts deeper than oxygen

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It’s bittersweet, the way you leave

like you were never mine to keep

I taste your name in everything

but it still feels incomplete

We fall apart so beautifully

like broken chords in minor keys

If loving you is killing me

then let it be bittersweet

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Your hands are still shaking

mine never do

Guess I got used to

losing you

The room’s getting colder

you won’t look back

I’m screaming in silence

fading to black

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And I try, I try

to pretend it don’t hurt like this

But your ghost in my head

is a love I can’t dismiss

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It’s bittersweet, the way you leave

like you were never mine to keep

I taste your name in everything

but it still feels incomplete

We fall apart so beautifully

like broken chords in minor keys

If loving you is killing me

then let it be bittersweet

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Stay… just a little longer

Lie… say it isn’t over

Hold me like you mean it this time

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We were fire in a dead town

burning ‘til we burned out

Tell me—was it ever real?

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It’s bittersweet, the way you leave

you take the best of me

I gave you every broken piece

you gave me memories

We fall apart so beautifully

like we were meant to be

If loving you is killing me…

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…then I’ll die bittersweet