I Let You Fade (Acoustic)

Parking lot light buzzing over our heads

Rain on the windshield blurring what you said

You sighed I can't keep bleeding for two

Hands in your pockets eyes straight through

Key fob shaking in my stupid hand

Mouth full of words that would not land

You turned away with your jaw locked tight

Tail lights cut a line through the night

I still taste that night every time I breathe

All the soft lies stuck behind my teeth

One slammed door and the world rearranged

Now every heartbeat sounds like your name

I'm still trapped in the night you said leave

Hands on the wheel but I couldn't breathe

It's not the hurt it's the choice I made

I let you fade

Every road that I take still screams your name

It's not the hurt it's the choice I made

I let you fade

Your coffee cup's still stained on my desk

Lip print there like a closing threat

I wear your shirt when the nights get loud

Then rip it off when I think too proud

Friends say Man you gotta let it go

But they weren't there in that yellow glow

When you stared through me like I wasn't there

Every promise hanging thin in the air

I still taste that night every time I breathe

All the sharp truths hiding under my teeth

One small word might have changed your mind

Now I chew on every line I left behind

I'm still trapped in the night you said leave

Hands on the wheel but I couldn't breathe

It's not the hurt it's the choice I made

I let you fade

Every road that I take still screams your name

It's not the hurt it's the choice I made

I let you fade

I've punched walls just to feel something crack

Blamed the mirror blamed the pills blamed the lack

Turned my chest into a war I can't win

Every kick drum beating where you've been

But I can't stay parked in that scene on repeat

Living tied down to an empty seat

If you called right now I'd still hesitate