Learning to let you go

INTRO

(soft piano, distant strings)

mm…

VERSE 1

I trace your name in empty air,

like you’re still standing here.

Every room still knows your shape,

even when you disappear.

I keep your sweater on my chair,

like it might breathe again,

but all that’s left are echoes now,

of where we’ve been.

PRE-CHORUS

I thought love meant holding tight,

never losing sight,

but I’m tired of fighting what I can’t control.

CHORUS

So I’m learning to let you go,

even though my heart says no.

I’m learning how to live with the space you left in me.

Every night I break, then grow,

missing you but letting hope

teach my hands to open slowly…

I’m learning to let you go.

VERSE 2

Your laugh is in the quiet songs,

the ones I never play.

Every road I take still asks me

if I chose to stay.

I replay all the almost words,

the things we didn’t say,

like maybe in another life

we found a way.

PRE-CHORUS

I thought love meant staying close,

never letting go,

but maybe love is knowing when to fold.

CHORUS

So I’m learning to let you go,

even though my heart says no.

I’m learning how to live with the space you left in me.

Every night I break, then grow,

missing you but letting hope

teach my hands to open slowly…

I’m learning to let you go.

BRIDGE

(soft drop, strings swell)

If I loved you less, it wouldn’t hurt this deep,

but I’d rather feel the fire

than forget what we used to be.

So I’ll carry you in quieter ways,

not in chains, not in pain…

just in who I am.

CHORUS (FINAL)

Now I’m learning to let you go,

with a trembling kind of hope.

I’m learning how to walk alone and still believe.

Every scar becomes a door,

every tear an open road,

and I swear I’ll be okay eventually…

I’m learning to let you go.

OUTRO

(only piano)

Mm… I’m learning…

to let you go.