We Couldn’t Save Us

Verse 1 – Man

I walk these empty rooms, your shadows on the floor,

Every picture on the wall cuts deeper than before.

I tried to say I’m sorry, but the words just came out wrong,

Now all I hear is silence where your heartbeat once was strong.

Verse 1 – Woman

I replay every moment, all the things we used to be,

Every promise that we made still pulls the breath from me.

I reached for you in daylight, but the distance only grew—

I tried to hold our broken pieces, but they cut me through.

Pre-Chorus – Both (alternating)

Man: We kept on falling…

Woman: Further every time…

Man: We tried to fix it…

Woman: But love slipped out of line…

Chorus – Both (together, harmonized)

We couldn’t save us,

We couldn’t heal the pain we made.

We held the fire,

Till all the colors burned away.

I miss you,

Even though we lost who we were.

We couldn’t save us—

But God, it still hurts.

Verse 2 – Woman

I find your sweater on the chair, it still smells like your skin,

And it drags me right back to the nights we almost let love win.

You said we’d try again tomorrow, but tomorrow never came,

We drowned beneath the weight of all the hurt we couldn’t name.

Verse 2 – Man

I read your letters late at night, the ones you left behind,

And every line you wrote still tears a fault line through my mind.

I never meant to lose you, never meant to watch you fade—

But some wounds never close no matter how hard you prayed.

Pre-Chorus – Both

Man: We kept on breaking…

Woman: Even when we tried…

Man: I held you tightly…

Woman: But love slipped from our lives…

Chorus – Both

We couldn’t save us,

We couldn’t heal the pain we made.

We held the fire,

Till all the colors burned away.

I miss you,

Even though we lost who we were.

We couldn’t save us—

But God, it still hurts.

Bridge – Both (call & response)

Man: I wish I’d told you everything I kept inside my chest…

Woman: I wish I’d held you longer when the world was crashing down…

Man: I wish we’d fought a little harder, given love our very best…

Woman: But every time we tried to heal, we just reopened wounds we found…

Both: We loved, we bled, we tried… and still we fell apart.

Breakdown / Emotional Peak – Both

Man: I miss you more than I can say…

Woman: I miss you every single day…

Both: But missing you can’t fix the scars we made.

Final Chorus – Both (soft, emotional)

We couldn’t save us,

We couldn’t heal the pain we made.

We held the fire,

Till all the colors burned away.

I miss you,

Even though we lost who we were.

We couldn’t save us—

But love…

Still

Hurts.