The Idea Of You

In the end nothing remains
But the echo of our names
We came from nothingness
We'll disappear in flames

When despair is all you've known
The cage you're in feels like home
Every touch a promise already broken
Every word we spoke was better left unspoken

But every story has to end
I couldn't go on, I could no longer pretend
I kept replaying every word you said
I built a whole life for us in my head

Every almost and every should have been
Became the walls of the life I live in
When despair is all you've known
The cage you're in feels like home

Every touch a promise already broken
Every word we spoke was better left unspoken
But every story has to end
I couldn't go on, I could no longer pretend

I mistook your hunger as a need for me
I mistook your silence for a sanctuary
Every lie felt better than the truth could feel
And love was a wound I refused to heal

I wore your absence like a second skin
I knew the cost but I kept letting you in
Every touch a promise already broken
Every word we spoke was better left unspoken

But every story has to end
I couldn't go on, I could no longer pretend
Every prayer answered with silence and rain
I loved the idea of you but found only pain