Lose Your Name (v2)

[Verse 1]

I left your coffee by the window

The cup still wears your lipstick stain

Your blue sweater hangs beside the doorway

Like you might come back for it again

I read the note beneath the sugar

Four crooked words in faded ink

I know the truth, but every morning

I find another way to think

[Pre-Chorus]

If I call, will you answer honestly?

Or let the silence do the talking for me?

[Chorus]

You were the room I could breathe in

Now every wall remembers you

I keep the keys, but not the feeling

I keep the hurt because it’s true

And if your heart has found a new place

I hope it holds you better than I do

I’m learning how to lose your name

Without losing what I knew

[Verse 2]

The landlord asked about the flowers

I said the winter took them all

But we both know I stopped watering

The day you stopped returning calls

There’s a photograph behind the dresser

Two hands, a train, a borrowed coat

I turn it face down every evening

Then turn it back before I go

[Pre-Chorus]

If I call, will you answer honestly?

Or let the silence do the talking for me?

[Chorus]

You were the room I could breathe in

Now every wall remembers you

I keep the keys, but not the feeling

I keep the hurt because it’s true

And if your heart has found a new place

I hope it holds you better than I do

I’m learning how to lose your name

Without losing what I knew

[Bridge]

Maybe love is not a promise

Maybe love is what we gave

Even when the hands let go

Something tender stays

I won’t make you into a villain

I won’t make myself the same

I’ll carry what was beautiful

And leave behind the blame

[Final Chorus]

You were the room I could breathe in

Now I can open up the door

The keys are cold inside my pocket

But they don’t own me anymore

And if your heart has found a new place

I hope it holds you better than I do

I’m learning how to lose your name

And still become somebody new

[Outro]

The cup is clean beside the window

The blue sweater’s gone today

I said goodbye without a witness

And let the morning have its way