We painted plans on the living room walls
Picked baby names and dreamed too far ahead
You said we’d laugh about getting old someday
Sitting side by side on a porch swing instead
I still remember every promise
Every future we built in that house
Funny how forever felt so certain
Until it wasn’t
Your coffee cup stayed in the cabinet
For six months after you were gone
I couldn’t bring myself to move it
Like somehow that would make it wrong
Everybody told me time would heal me
But nobody warned me about this
How every little thing you touched
Would turn into something I’d miss
Cause you didn’t just leave me
You left half of forever
Half of every dream
Half of every prayer
Half of the life I thought we’d live together
Now I’m standing in the wreckage
Trying to remember
How to be whole
When you took half of forever
With you
People think heartbreak happens quickly
Like a door slamming shut one night
But heartbreak’s waking up every morning
And remembering they’re not by your side
It’s hearing your song in a grocery store
And pretending you’re okay
It’s losing somebody once
Then losing them again every day
Cause you didn’t just leave me
You left half of forever
Half of every dream
Half of every prayer
Half of the life I thought we’d live together
Now I’m standing in the wreckage
Trying to remember
How to be whole
When you took half of forever
With you
And maybe someday I’ll stop looking
For your truck in every parking lot
Maybe someday this won’t hurt so much
Maybe someday I’ll forget
But tonight I’m not there yet
Cause you didn’t just leave me
You left half of forever
Half of my heart
Half of who I was
Half of the girl who believed love lasted forever
Now I’m learning how to breathe
In a world that’s so much colder
Learning how to carry
What you left behind
Cause you didn’t just break my heart
You broke forever
Into pieces
The night you said goodbye
And some nights
I still hear you
In the half that’s missing
