Burnout

**Verse 1:**

We stood together, yet worlds apart,

As I watched the unraveling of my heart.

Your eyes, fixed on the exit in view,

Foretold the goodbye you’d choose.

**Pre-Chorus:**

I remember your shadow against the door,

Silent signals of a love that would be no more.

Now, settled in Dallas, so far from where I stand,

Do you ever pause and think about the life we had planned?

**Chorus:**

Did a past love reignite old flames,

Or did my words drive us to this change?

Did I push you too far, make your father doubt?

Are we nothing more than a love burned out?

**Verse 2:**

Grateful now, for the escape from what could've been,

From the chaos hidden beneath our serene.

Why chase a storm that was bound to break?

I thank the stars for the quiet after the quake.

**Bridge:**

Perhaps your father saw what took me too long to find,

That beyond the wreckage, I could be the right kind.

The fools may chase what we left to rust,

But I’m moving forward, in myself and God I trust.

**Chorus:**

Did we race through life, too fast to see?

Did we miss turning our love into something to believe?

Does she mirror the mistakes of the past she deplored?

Are these questions my heart can no longer afford?

**Outro:**

Months have passed, life’s moved on,

You’re out there living, but for me, you’re gone.

Yet in this solitude, I find a new start,

Becoming the man worthy of my own heart.