[Verse 1]
Empty glass
Lipstick on the rim
Laugh tracks
From a life I never lived
You were there
Just a shoulder from my hand
I joked too loud
So I wouldn’t say
“I can”
[Pre-Chorus]
All those nights at crowded bars
I traced your face in cigarette scars
You never saw the way I watched you go
I stayed a ghost in my own shadow (hey)
[Chorus]
This is for the buried love
Never said
All the words stuck deep in my chest instead
I was right beside you
You still left me behind you
Screaming to a sky that doesn’t know
I’m letting go
I’m letting go
Though every broken piece says “hold on
Hold on”
I’m singing for a love that’s gone
[Verse 2]
You leaned in
Told me secrets in my ear
I laughed it off
So you wouldn’t hear my fear
Every time you kissed
Somebody not my name
I clapped along
Drowning in the game
[Pre-Chorus]
Backroom lights and broken chairs
You spun in circles
I just stared
I wore this grin like armor in the glow
Bleeding out where you would never know
[Chorus]
This is for the buried love
Never said
All the lines I rehearsed
Left unread
I was right beside you
You still left me behind you
Screaming to a sky that doesn’t know
I’m letting go
I’m letting go
Though every broken piece says “hold on
Hold on”
I’m singing for a love that’s gone
[Bridge]
If I had told you then
Would you have stayed
Or walked away faster?
Every what-if carves my skin
But I’m done building altars to disaster (oh)
So here’s my final prayer
To every almost
Every nearly-there
[Chorus]
This is for the buried love
Never said
Set the flowers on the flame in my head
I was right beside you
Now I’m done being behind you
Crying to a sky that finally knows
I’m letting go
I’m letting go
Hear my broken voice turn into a roar
I won’t be your shadow anymore