Let Go Or Hold On

[Intro – Instrumental Only]  
[Piano arpeggio, slow and soft]  
[Strings: gentle pad, long sustained notes]  
[Optional: soft ambient synth swell]  
[8–12 seconds, lead into Verse 1]  

[Verse 1]  
We lived inside a “maybe then” /  
With words we never said /  
Too close to call it anything /  
Too far to move ahead /  

We felt the start of something real /  
But let it slip away /  
Like timing drew a line between /  
The choice we couldn’t make /  

[Verse 2]  
I hear your name / and look around /  
Like you might still be near /  
A life I wasn’t meant to live /  
But somehow still feels here /  

And I don’t know what stays with me /  
The space or what we knew /  
That we were right in every way /  
Except for what we couldn’t do /  

[Chorus]  
If I let you go / will you fade away? /  
Was it ever real / or just shades of gray? /  
I’m caught between / the now and gone /  
And I don’t know which one / is love /  
Letting go… / or holding on /  

[Verse 3]  
In some other life / we don’t look back /  
No distance in the way /  
No careful steps / no second thoughts /  
No reason not to stay /  

But here we pass like strangers do /  
With more than we can show /  
Still holding onto something /  
We were never meant to hold /  

[Bridge]  
Maybe we were meant to be /  
Just never meant to last /  
A quiet kind of memory /  
That never leaves the past /  

[Final Chorus]  
If I let you go / will you fade away? /  
Was it ever real / or just shades of gray? /  
I’m caught between / the now and gone /  
And I don’t know which one / is love /  
Letting go… / or holding on /

Soft alt rock, female vocals, layered guitars, bass & light drums, subtle strings, spacious reverb, cinematic vibe