Faded love

Faded Love

I still drive that old dirt road,

Where we used to park beneath the moon,

Your name carved deep in my dashboard,

Like a promise I believed was true.

There’s a picture hanging by the doorway,

And your perfume still lingers in the room,

Funny how a heart can hold on

When the other one lets go too soon.

I thought forever meant forever,

Guess forever changed its mind,

Now I’m talking to your memory

At two a.m. every night.

It’s a faded love, like an old blue jean,

Worn down by the years and the space between.

We were fire once, now we’re just smoke,

A broken promise and a heart half-broke.

I still hear your voice when the radio plays,

Still see your eyes in the sunset haze.

Some things disappear, but they leave a mark—

You’re a faded love written across my heart.

I heard you found somebody new,

He takes you dancing Friday nights,

I hope he makes you laugh like I did,

I hope he holds you right.

I won’t lie and say it doesn’t hurt,

Some nights I still call your name,

But I’m learning that missing someone

Doesn’t mean you want them back again.

There’s a bottle on the table,

There’s a tear beneath my smile,

Guess healing ain’t a straight road,

It just takes a little while.

It’s a faded love, like an old blue jean,

Worn down by the years and the space between.

We were fire once, now we’re just smoke,

A broken promise and a heart half-broke.

I still hear your voice when the radio plays,

Still see your eyes in the sunset haze.

Some things disappear, but they leave a mark—

You’re a faded love written across my heart.

Maybe someday I’ll pass your street,

And your memory won’t cut so deep.

Maybe I’ll smile at what we were,

Instead of wondering what went wrong.

Love don’t always have to last

To have been real back then—

Some chapters end beneath the stars,

But they stay inside us till the end.

It’s a faded love, like a photograph,

A little bit of sorrow, a little bit of past.

We were young and wild, we gave it all,

Then somehow we watched forever fall.

Now the radio’s playing our old song,

And for a moment, I swear you’re not gone.

But the morning comes and the feeling moves on—

Just a faded love where you once belonged.

So here’s to the nights,

And the tears we cried,

To the love that burned

Before it said goodbye.

I’ll keep the memories,

But I’ll let you go…

You’ll always be

My faded love.