Lyric

If I could hate you

It’d be easy

If I could call you

What you were

Right before laughing

You breathe in slow

That little habit

Won’t let go

Even the silence

Before you spoke

Still stays so clean

It hits my throat

I try to find things

To make me mad

But all that love still

Won’t fade back

We were too close then

Far too close

Thought without words

We’d always know

With a calm face I

Held it down

That was the one place

That still hurts now

Don’t turn our love into a lie

It only ended — don’t kill the light

If all the good things still remain

Then I will walk with all that pain

I couldn’t hate you

Yeah, that hurts too

But I won’t let it end right there with you

Next time I won’t let silence speak

I’ll say it right

I’ll speak for me

With someone new now

I say things straight

The things I used to

Hide away

Whenever the room stops

For one short beat

It’s always my heart

That speaks for me

It was much easier

To lean away

If I kept smiling

I’d be okay

She stayed there quiet

For just one breath

Then said, “I get it”

And left it there

That was all it was then

Only that

And all the tightness

Started to crack

More than acting

Like you understand

That simple answer

Felt warm again

Don’t turn our love into a lie

Don’t hide the reason that it lost its life

Even if I know there’s no way back

If I loved you once

That love was real

Just one “I get it”

And I could breathe

Yeah, nights like that still bring me back to me

Next time I won’t let silence speak

I’ll say it right

I’ll speak for me

What I have lost now

Won’t come back home

But I don’t want to

Erase it all

The days were kind once

They still ache now

I keep them with me

Somehow, somehow

Don’t turn our love into a lie

Don’t wipe the feeling still alive inside

If all the good things still remain

Then I can walk with all that pain

If I can’t hate you

That’s still me

If that looks ugly

So let it be

Next time I won’t let silence speak

I’ll say it right

I’ll speak for me