[Verse 1]
I loved you quietly,
like I didn’t know any better.
Held on too tightly
to something that was never mine.
Your face still lingers
in the corners of my mind—
a ghost with warm hands,
a memory that won’t decide
if it should stay
or finally let me go.
[Pre-Chorus]
And maybe healing
is just learning
not to want
what never lived.
[Chorus]
But I still feel you
in the places I hide—
in the breaths I hold,
in the space behind my eyes.
And I still keep you
like a song stuck in rewind,
like a truth I never said,
like a lie I tried to find.
I shouldn’t feel you…
but I do.
I do.
[Verse 2]
Love was simple once,
before I knew how heavy it gets.
You taught me longing,
the kind that stains the chest.
Now time slips through me
like water through a broken glass—
too quick to catch,
too sharp to forget.
Your touch—
it echoes,
soft and out of place,
like footsteps
in an empty hallway.
[Pre-Chorus]
And maybe leaving
is just choosing
not to chase
what never stayed.
[Chorus]
But I still feel you
in the quiet of my room,
in the shadows where I bloom.
And I still keep you
like a name I never say,
like a dream that fades away.
I shouldn’t feel you…
but I do.
I do.
[Bridge]
Maybe we were almost—
maybe that’s why it hurts.
We were pages half-written,
becoming someone else’s words.
And I still reach for you sometimes,
out of habit,
out of hope,
out of the version of us
that only I ever met.
[Outro]
And if someday I’m me again,
maybe then
I’ll forget
what never lived…
but stayed anyway.
Stayed anyway.