Verse 1 Drifting away, I’m dissolving your name Slowly severing the tether, untangling the chain Decades in a moment, all the memories decay Feelings fossilized beneath the words we couldn’t say Scars on my skin, little hieroglyphs of shame Every line a testament to how I took the blame You were venom in a velvet coat, beautiful and profane And I kept calling it devotion while you called me insane Pre-Chorus Oh, I romanticized the wreckage Put a halo on the hurt Made a cathedral out of ruins Just to prove that I was worth— Chorus Drifting away, away, away Like smoke from a match I was dying to save I’m losing the rhythm of begging you to stay While every old promise is rotting with age You had me convinced I was born to be broken That love was a language best left unspoken Now I’m learning the difference between Being wanted and being owned by somebody’s need Verse 2 I kept your apologies folded inside of my chest Little paper-cut promises dressed up as regret You’d fracture my faith, then demand I confess And I’d call it forgiveness when really I was scared Now the nostalgia tastes metallic and strange Like sugar on a tongue after years of decay I can mourn what we were without asking you to change I can miss you from a distance And still walk away Pre-Chorus Oh, I worshipped the disaster Like a fool beneath the flame Thought surviving every fire Meant I had to stay the same Chorus Drifting away, away, away Like smoke from a match I was dying to save I’m losing the rhythm of begging you to stay While every old promise is rotting with age You had me convinced I was born to be broken That love was a language best left unspoken Now I’m learning the difference between Being wanted and being owned by somebody’s need Bridge And maybe I’m cruel for finally choosing me Maybe freedom feels like grief before it feels like peace Maybe all this emptiness is evidence I’m healing Maybe letting go is not the same as conceding I spent my whole life Trying to become somebody worth loving Now I’m standing in the mirror And realizing— I never had to become anything Final Chorus Drifting away, away, away No longer rehearsing the words you would say The scars may remain, but they don’t get a name And the girl you convinced you could break Is changing shape You had me convinced I was born to be broken But I’m rewriting every word you left spoken Now I know the difference between Being loved and being consumed Between holding on and being held captive Between losing you And finally finding myself Outro Drifting away… Slowly, slowly letting you go Decades of echoes But I’m finally learning— Some things are meant to disappear So something better can grow.
