I kept a little reason folded in my sleeve
Waiting for the day my heart would learn to breathe
There was a quiet promise buried underneath
But love can leave a room before you feel it leave
I held every answer like a photograph
Turned it in my fingers, hoping it would last
You said we had a future, then you changed your path
Now every tender memory cuts me in half
Why does losing feeling make the silence feel so loud?
Why did all my patience disappear into the crowd?
I gave you every honest part I knew how to give
Tell me how to let you go and still know how to live
You were the best mistake I never meant to make
The sweetest kind of sorrow I was too afraid to face
I gave you all my courage, all the pieces I could save
Now I am learning how to leave without becoming what you hate
Every story that we carried had a reason to remain
Some people leave a memory, some people leave a stain
If loving you was losing, then I lost more than I knew
But somewhere past the heartbreak, I will find a way back through
I see your empty coffee cup beside the window frame
A small and ordinary ghost that still remembers your name
The morning keeps on moving, though my room has stayed the same
I count the little victories: one breath, one step, one day
I used to call it devotion, now I call it letting go
There are roads we never travel and truths we never know
I wanted us forever, but forever changed its clothes
And left me with the question of who I am alone
You were the best mistake I never meant to make
The sweetest kind of sorrow I was too afraid to face
I gave you all my courage, all the pieces I could save
Now I am learning how to leave without becoming what you hate
Every story that we carried had a reason to remain
Some people leave a memory, some people leave a stain
If loving you was losing, then I lost more than I knew
But somewhere past the heartbreak, I will find a way back through
Maybe one day I will pass you and my hands will not shake
Maybe your name will be a name, not a wound I have to take
I will keep the parts that mattered, let the rest dissolve in blue
I can miss the life we dreamed of without missing all of you
You were the best mistake I never meant to make
The sweetest kind of sorrow I was too afraid to face
I gave you all my courage, all the pieces I could save
Now I am learning how to leave, and I am not afraid
Every story that we carried had a reason to remain
Some people leave a memory, some people leave a stain
If loving you was losing, then I lost more than I knew
But somewhere past the heartbreak, I will find a way back through
I will find a way back through
I will find a way back through
