It hurts to say goodbye

We didn’t stop loving overnight

It slipped away one year at a time

We held on hard, we both tried

But love can leave without goodbye

Verse 1

We were young when we said “forever”

In a room full of family and friends

We thought love would hold us together

No matter how the story would bend

Years went by like a blink of an eye

Bills on the table, kids fast asleep

We stopped asking each other “why”

And started learning how not to speak

Verse 2

We used to talk all night in the kitchen

Now the silence sits in every chair

We tried to fix what was slowly missing

But the feeling just wasn’t there

It wasn’t fights or words too loud

Just space growing day by day

Two hearts in the same old house

Finding different ways to fade

Two hearts

Two hearts in the same old house

Finding different ways to fade

Chorus

We didn’t stop loving overnight

It slipped away one year at a time

We held on hard, we both tried

But love can leave without goodbye

We stayed for hope, we stayed for years

Through promises and quiet tears

Now I’m learning how to let you go

When the love we had just wasn’t home

just wasn’t home

just wasn’t home

I see our pictures on the wall

Smiling like we had it all

But smiles don’t tell the whole truth

About what time can do to you

We became strangers sharing space

Same last name, different worlds

Still caring, still afraid

Just no longer boy and girl

Verse 4

I asked myself if I should stay

Just to keep the peace, not feel the pain

But staying empty felt worse somehow

Than walking out and starting now

It hurts to say it out loud

But I know it’s finally clear

We weren’t broken, we were tired

Of pretending love was still here

was still here

still here

Chorus

We didn’t stop loving overnight

It slipped away one year at a time

We held on hard, we both tried

But love can leave without goodbye

We stayed for hope, we stayed for years

Through promises and quiet tears

Now I’m learning how to let you go

When the love we had just wasn’t home

I don’t hate you, I never could

You were my life, you meant the world

But sometimes love means walking away

So we can both breathe again

breeeeeeeeathe againnnnnnn

We didn’t fail, we just outgrew

The people we once knew

I’ll always wish you well somehow

Even as I lay this ring down

This isn’t anger, this is truth

Two hearts that finally chose

To stop holding on to what was gone

And start healing on our own

After all these years of trying

I’m choosing peace over pretending

And though it hurts to say goodbye

This is how our story ends

This is how our stoooory endssssss

I miss you baaaabbbyyyyyyyy