Let it burn
Let it burn behind
me
Verse
I watched a life from a distance
Like it wasn’t mine to save
A body moving through the motions
A name I never claimed
I saw her hands shaking at the table
Saw her eyes go dull with time
Every dream packed into boxes
Labeled “not mine”
I didn’t scream when it was ending
I didn’t fight when it went dark
I just sat there breathing softly
While it hollowed out my heart
Pre-Chorus
I thought numb was safer than broken
I thought watching meant control
But you can’t outrun the damage
When you’re living without a soul
Chorus
I watched my whole life fall apart
Like it was someone else’s pain
I watched the light just leave my body
And I didn’t even look away
But when I finally stood up
And let the old world burn behind
I didn’t lose myself forever
I just left the wrong life
Verse
I remember mirrors without reflection
I remember days without sound
People spoke and I nodded
But I was nowhere to be found
I watched him beg for connection
Through a mouth that wouldn’t speak
I watched love turn into distance
I watched hope go quiet in me
I thought survival meant staying
Thought endurance was enough
But staying was slowly killing me
And leaving felt like giving up
Pre-Chorus
Is it grief, in living halfway
Is it violence, in delay
Every second you abandon yourself
It takes something you can’t replace
Chorus
I watched my whole life fall apart
Like it was someone else’s pain
I watched the light just leave my body
And I didn’t even look away
But when I finally stood up
And let the old world burn behind
I didn’t lose myself forever
I just left the wrong life
(I just left the wrong life)
Bridge
There was no moment of awakening
No voice, no sign, no grace
Just a quiet decision in the dark
To stop leaving myself in that place
I didn’t rise like a miracle
I rose like a wound learning to breathe
One step away from the person I was
One step back into me
Final Chorus
I watched my whole life fall apart
Like it was someone else’s pain
I watched the light just leave my body
And I didn’t even look away
(didn’t even look away)
I watched my whole life fall apart
Like it was someone else’s pain
But when I finally stood up
And let the old world burn behind
I didn’t lose myself forever
I just left the wrong life
(I just left the wrong life)
Outro
This wasn’t someone else’s ending
This was me learning how to see
I didn’t lose my life to the fall
I just gave it back to me
I watched my whole life fall apart
Like it was someone else’s pain
But I didn’t lose myself forever
I just left, just walked away
(didn’t lose myself forever)
I left, I walked away.