Leave It Where It Hurt

I kept your words

Folded in my wallet

Little burned edges

Smelled like last July

Coffee on the counter

Keys on the table

We said “forever”

Then we let it die

I’m gonna leave it where it hurt

All that broken

All that dirt

I’m done dragging every memory through the day

I’m gonna leave it where it bled

Get your echo out my head

I ain’t living in that hallway of your name

I’m forgetting what we were

I’m gonna leave it where it hurt

Your sweater in the closet

Hung like a question

Kept my fingers tracing

Names in the dust

Now I’m packing up the silence

In a cardboard promise

Putting every little ghost

Out on the truck

I’m gonna leave it where it hurt

All that broken

All that dirt

I’m done dragging every memory through the day

I’m gonna leave it where it bled

Get your echo out my head

I ain’t living in that hallway of your name

I’m forgetting what we were

I’m gonna leave it where it hurt

Maybe I don’t forgive you

(maybe I don’t)

But I forgive myself

For holding on this long

Let the past stay past

Let the night turn black

I’m walking forward

Till your shadow’s gone

I’m gonna leave it where it hurt

All that broken

All that dirt

I’m done dragging every memory through the day

I’m gonna leave it where it bled

Get your echo out my head

I ain’t living in that hallway of your name

I’m forgetting what we were

I’m gonna leave it where it hurt