A Promise I Cant Release

Verse 1

I wake to silence every day,

Your absence steals the air away.

The sheets remember how you breathed,

Now all that’s left is disbelief.

My trembling hands still reach for you,

Though I know you’re loving someone new.

Pre-Chorus

I try to sever what remains,

But all it does is bleed again.

Chorus

There’s a promise I can’t release,

It chains my heart, it haunts my sleep.

Even when I beg to heal,

Your shadow tells me what to feel.

I’m fading slow beneath the weight,

Of loving you past what is fate—

A promise I can’t release,

Even though it’s killing me.

Verse 2

Your name is carved beneath my ribs,

A quiet wound that never mends.

I tell myself to walk away,

But love keeps pulling me to stay.

I’m breaking where no eyes can see,

A silent ruin on my knees.

Pre-Chorus

I burned the letters, burned the past,

But still the ashes hold you fast.

Chorus

There’s a promise I can’t release,

A vow that won’t let me breathe.

Even when the night turns numb,

My heart remembers where you’re from.

I’m holding pieces of a ghost,

Of all the love I’ve lost the most—

A promise I can’t release,

Even though it ends in grief.

Bridge

If I could tear you from my veins,

Would I feel life or only pain?

If I could wake and not recall,

Would I still search, would I still fall?

I whisper goodbye but it’s a lie,

You’re still the tear I cannot dry.

Final Chorus

There’s a promise I can’t release,

A broken prayer I can’t unkeep.

Even if I lose myself,

I’d rather ache than love someone else.

So I’ll stay quiet, stay unseen,

A fading light where you have been—

A promise I can’t release,

So I’ll die here silently.