I can’t live like this

• [Soft acoustic picking (not strumming heavy at first)]

• [Pedal steel answering every line]

• [Light drums enter after first chorus]

• [Bass subtle, supportive]

• [Vocal: restrained → cracks in chorus]

You don’t say much when you walk in late

Just set your keys down on the same old place

I try to find something I can say…

But it don’t land

We sit there quiet like we always do

Two people lost in what we used to be

I look at you, you don’t look at me…

And I understand

We ain’t fighting… we ain’t trying…

We’re just letting it fade

I can’t live like this… (liiiike thiiiis)

Dying slow in a love like this

Every day just a little less…

Of what we were

I’d rather hear you say goodbye

Than watch this fall apart over time

If it’s already gone, don’t let me pretend…

I can’t live like this again

There was a time we couldn’t get enough

Now it feels like we’re just giving up

Like we’re both too tired to call it what it is…

Or fix it

I still remember how you used to laugh

Now it’s something that we don’t have

And I don’t know how we let it get this bad…

But we did

We ain’t broken… we ain’t whole…

We’re just somewhere in between

I can’t live like this… (liiiike thiiiis)

Dying slow in a love like this

Every day just a little less…

Of what we were

I’d rather hear you say goodbye

Than watch this fall apart over time

If it’s already gone, don’t let me pretend…

I can’t live like this again

If there’s nothing left to hold on to…

Then tell me the truth…

Don’t let silence be the thing that ends us…

I can’t live like this… (let it crack)

Watching love turn into this

Every touch don’t feel the same…

It’s killing me

I’d rather walk away in pain

Than slowly lose you day by day

If your heart ain’t here, don’t say it is…

I can’t live like this