How To Say Goodbye

(Intro - haunting cello fingerpicking)
(Verse 1)
My mind holds a graveyard of things you forgot
A sweater, a picture, the flowers that rot
I’m sitting in the silence of our unmade bed
Replaying the "always" and "forevers" you said
Falling further to the realization I made
That I’m watching our life just slip away.
(Pre-Chorus)
My chest is wide open, a canyon of air
I’m reaching for something that never was there
The weight of the "almost" is crushing my bones
And I’m learning the silence of being alone.
(Chorus)
I’m suffocating on the space you left behind
In the darkened corners of a broken mind
You didn’t just leave, you took the light out of me
And left me to drown in a wide-open sea
It’s a quiet kind of dying, a slow-motion fall
To realize I meant nothing to you at all.
(Verse 2)
What happened to honesty and truth
I guess it wasn’t important enough to you
I’m tracing the scars where your words used to be
Before you became a stranger to me
I’m tired of the waiting, I’m tired of the lie
And I’m tired of asking the universe "why."
(Bridge)
You’ll find someone else to hollow out and discard
To leave them in the rearview, bruised and scarred
But I hope when you’re lonely, when the room starts to shrink
You’re forced to stay awake and actually think
About the heart you stepped on just to feel tall
About how it feels to know you ruined it all!
(Chorus)
I’m suffocating on the space you left behind
In the darkened corners of a broken mind
You didn’t just leave, you took the light out of me
And left me to drown in a wide-open sea
It’s a quiet kind of dying, a slow-motion fall
To realize I meant nothing to you at all.
(Outro)
I don’t want the "sorry."
I don’t want the "try."
I just want to remember...
How to say goodbye.

Alternative rock, pop punk, post grunge 90s, female