The machine said goodbye

“I Let the Machine Say Goodbye”

Verse 1

We were fingerprints on borrowed time,

Cheap promises dressed up as fate.

You said “forever” like it was casual,

Like love was something you could automate.

I learned your silence like a second language,

Read between the gaps you wouldn’t fill.

You called it distance, I called it damage,

Still loved you harder than I ever should’ve.

Pre-Chorus

I bent until I broke, then blamed myself,

Like loyalty was a crime I committed.

You left me holding all the truth alone,

While you rewrote history and hit delete.

Chorus

So I let the machine say goodbye,

Since you never had the spine.

Typed in the pain, pressed “generate,”

And watched it finish what you wouldn’t try.

It told me love isn’t supposed to burn,

Or leave you empty just to feel desired.

If this is the end, let it be clean—

I let the machine say goodbye.

Verse 2

You loved the way I loved you,

Not the way you loved me back.

I was the mirror you admired,

You were the ghost that I kept chasing fast.

I shrank myself to fit your comfort,

Called it patience, called it grace.

Funny how you always felt “trapped,”

But I was the one erased.

Pre-Chorus

I kept receipts of every tear,

Every “maybe,” every lie.

You kept options, I kept faith—

Guess which one of us survived.

Chorus

So I let the machine say goodbye,

Put logic where my heart went blind.

It said, “Love doesn’t punish devotion,

And pain isn’t proof you tried.”

I fed it all the nights I begged,

The parts of me you left behind.

If you couldn’t end it honestly—

I let the machine say goodbye.

Bridge

This isn’t closure, it’s clarity.

This isn’t rage, it’s release.

I don’t hate you—I outgrew you,

And that’s the part you couldn’t beat.

You wanted love without the weight,

I wanted truth without the fight.

Turns out the future didn’t need you—

Just needed me to choose my life.

Break (soft, almost spoken)

If love was real, it wouldn’t hurt like this.

And if you cared, I wouldn’t have to guess.

So I asked a system with no heart at all

To explain what you never could.

Final Chorus

So I let the machine say goodbye,

And for once, it got it right.

Said, “You were never hard to love—

You were just loving the wrong mind.”

This isn’t failure, it’s the truth,

Wrapped in code, wrapped in light.

If love had to end tonight—

I let the machine say goodbye.

Outro

Consider this the last reply.

No dots typing. No alibi.

If you ever wonder why I’m gone—

The ending wrote itself this time.