Let it burn

I still see your shadow in the doorway light (yeah… still there)

Still hear your voice in the dead of night (won’t fade)

Got your name sittin’ heavy on my tongue (damn)

Like a song I hate but I can’t outrun (no escape)

Every picture, every place we knew (all of it)

Feels like it’s frozen, stuck on you (stuck… stuck)

I keep reaching for what’s already gone (why do I?)

Like somehow holding on makes it not wrong (it don’t)

Pre-Chorus

But these hands are tired of breaking fall (so tired)

And this heart can’t fake it anymore (no more lies)

Chorus

So I’m gonna let it burn, let it ache, let it bleed (let it burn..yeah)

Every broken part of you inside of me (inside of me)

I was drowning in the past, couldn’t breathe (couldn’t breathe)

Now I know letting go is what I need (I need it)

Yeah it hurts like hell, yeah it cuts real deep (too deep)

But I’d rather feel than pretend you’re still with me (no pretending)

I’ve been holding on to something that’s done (it’s over)

Now I’m choosing me..I’m choosing to run (I’m gone)

Verse 2

I used to beg for what you wouldn’t give (why’d I?)

Tried to build a life on what we didn’t live (fake dreams)

Every “maybe” kept me chained in place (locked down)

While you were already walking away (you left)

Now I see it clearer than I did before (clear now)

Love ain’t love if you’re keeping score (ain’t love)

And I lost myself just to make it last (lost me)

But I won’t lose me to hold onto the past (not again)

Pre-Chorus

Yeah the silence screams but it tells the truth (hear that)

There’s no fixing what we already blew (too late)

Chorus

So I’m gonna let it burn, let it ache, let it bleed (let it burn… yeah)

Every broken part of you inside of me (inside of me)

I was drowning in the past, couldn’t breathe (couldn’t breathe)

Now I know letting go is what I need (I need it)

Yeah it hurts like hell, yeah it cuts real deep (too deep)

But I’d rather feel than pretend you’re still with me (no pretending)

I’ve been holding on to something that’s done (it’s over)

Now I’m choosing me… I’m choosing to run (I’m gone)

Bridge

I won’t romanticize the pain anymore (no more)

Won’t sit here waiting like before (I’m done waiting)

You taught me what I won’t accept (lesson learned)

That kind of love ain’t worth the wreck (never again)

And maybe someday I’ll thank the fall (one day)

For teaching me I deserve it all (I deserve it)

Final Chorus

So let it burn, let it fade to black (fade out)

No more turning ‘round, no looking back (no looking back)

I was lost in you, now I finally see (I see it)

There’s a whole damn world outside your memory (so much more)

Yeah it hurts right now but I’ll be alright (I’ll be good)

I’m walking out into my own life (my life)

I’ve been holding on to something that’s done (it’s done)

Now I’m choosing meyeah, I’m finally done (finally free)

Outro

Your ghost don’t live here anymore (no it don’t)

I closed that chapter, shut that door (closed it)

And every scar you left behind (every scar)

Is proof I loved…