She's Not You

Verse 1

Empty side of the bed where you used to lay

I still whisper goodnight to the dark that stayed

Cancer took your hands but not the way you'd hold

And I've been living in the story that we told

Pre-Chorus

Then she came, quiet as the rain

Standing where you used to stand

Same old room, but not the same

Chorus

She's not you, I know she's not you

No one ever could replace

But she stayed here through the winter

While I mourned another face

And I never saw it coming

'Til I saw her in the light

She's not you, but she is something

That is finally making it right

Verse 2

She would bring me coffee, never say a word

Just enough to let the silence go unheard

I kept the walls up like a promise I still owed

Until one evening something in my chest just... broke

Pre-Chorus

And I looked at her and something shifted

Like the sun behind the grey

For the first time since I lost you

I could breathe another day

Chorus

She's not you, I know she's not you

No one ever could replace

But she stayed here through the winter

While I mourned another face

And I never saw it coming

'Til I saw her in the light

She's not you, but she is something

That is finally making it right

Bridge

I used to think that loving twice

Meant loving you a little less

But now I know that love just grows

It doesn't ask you to forget

Final Chorus

She's not you, and I don't need her to be

She's her own kind of light for me

I carried you into forever

Now I'm learning how to live again

She's not you, but I'm falling

Slowly, softly, back to love

Outro

I'll carry you forever

And I'm learning how to live again