Stranger To My Own Life

Verse 1

Waking up reaching for your side

Half asleep forgetting you said goodbye

Curtains swaying in the empty gray

Another morning I must learn to face

Spent so many years beside you

Forgot what being alone could feel like

Every room remembers us

Every silence asks too much

Pre-Chorus

It's a different kind of heartbreak

When there's no one left to blame

I'm not just trying to forget you

I'm trying to remember my name

Chorus

I'm a stranger to my own life

Learning how to make it through the night

Trying to find my footing

In the spaces you left behind

And I still reach for you sometimes

Like the shore still waits for the tide

Never thought I'd have to figure out

Who I am when you're not around

I'm not over us not even close

I'm just learning how to let you go

Verse 2

I still take the roads we used to drive

Though I have no reason to be on that side

Your favorite songs come on the radio

And for a moment I'm back where we used to go

Learned to eat alone at night

To make my bed and turn off every light

Small victories no one else can see

But somehow they mean everything

Pre-Chorus

I used to think that being stronger

Meant pretending I was fine

Now I'm learning there's no shame

In missing what was once mine

Chorus

I'm a stranger to my own life

Learning how to make it through the night

Trying to find my footing

In the spaces you left behind

And I still reach for you sometimes

Like the shore still waits for the tide

Never thought I'd have to figure out

Who I am when you're not around

I'm not over us not even close

I'm just learning how to let you go

Bridge

We built a thousand ordinary days

Made forever sound like something that would stay

Knew the rhythm of your every breath

Never thought I'd learn a world without it

And I won't say those years were wasted

Or pretend our love was just a phase

Some stars burn bright then disappear

But the light they leave still lingers here

So if I miss you let me miss you

If it hurts I'll let it hurt

I don't need to make you the villain

Just to put myself first

Final Chorus

I'm a stranger to my own life

But I'm learning how to be alright

There's a little less fear in the silence

A little more peace in the quiet

And I still think of you sometimes

Like an old song I can't leave behind

You were a world I thought I'd never lose

Now I'm finding one beyond the memory of you

I'm not healed and I won't pretend

Some things take time to reach their end

I'm not the man I was before goodbye

But maybe there's still more to this life

Outro

I loved you then I mean it still

But loving you can't be my whole world

And for the first time in so many years

I'm learning how to live

Without you here