[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 /
Eilidhschy
