Sweetest Bittersweet End

(Verse 1)

We’re sitting in the driveway with the engine humming low

The heater’s blowing warmth, but we’ve got nowhere left to go

I’m looking at your profile in the dashboard’s amber light

The most beautiful disaster I’ve ever seen tonight

Your hand is resting on the brake, but mine is on the door

Knowing that"hello" won't mean the same thing anymore.

(Pre-Chorus)

There’s a kindness in the quiet, a mercy in the pause

We’re finally stoping the war without a cause

I’m memorizing the way you breathe before the world turns cold

Trading in our"forever" for a story that’s been told.

(Chorus)

And it’s the sweetest bittersweet end I’ve ever known

A gentle way of letting go of everything we’ve grown

It’s the sugar on the razor, it’s the honey in the scar

Knowing we’re exactly where we’re supposed to be—this far

I’m smiling through the stinging, I’m grateful for the bend

In this beautiful, heartbreaking, sweetest bittersweet end.

(Verse 2)

You reached across the console just to tuck away my hair

Like you still have the right to show me that you care

And that’s the part that kills me, that the love didn't go sour

It just ran out of daylight, it just used up its hour

We’re like a sunset bleeding into a deep and lonely blue

I’m losing my best friend while I’m losing all of you.

(Bridge)

I’d stay in this car until the gas ran out

Just to live in the"maybe" and the shadow of a doubt

But the stars are getting sleepy and the moon is moving on

And"us" is just a word that’ll be buried by the dawn.

(Chorus)

Yeah, it’s the sweetest bittersweet end I’ve ever known

A gentle way of letting go of everything we’ve grown

It’s the sugar on the razor, it’s the honey in the scar

Knowing we’re exactly where we’re supposed to be—this far

I’m smiling through the stinging, I’m grateful for the bend

In this beautiful, heartbreaking, sweetest bittersweet end.

(Outro)

Go on and drive away...

I’ll stand here in the street...

Watching the taillights make the tragedy complete.

It was good while it lasted...

It was real while it bled...

Now I’m sleeping in a different kind of bed.

Sweetest end.

Bitter... but sweet.