If This is Goodbye

Verse 1

If this is the ending

Don't make it pretty for me

Don't smile like we're okay

Don't say we'll be fine eventually

Just sit here close beside me

A little while more

Let me trace your features

Before they blur into before

Pre-Chorus

I don't know how to leave you

Without leaving half of me

Chorus

If this is goodbye

Then hold me like you mean it

Let me feel your heartbeat

Once before you leave it

I don't need forever

I only need tonight

If I can't wake beside you

Let me say this right

Verse 2

I'll keep the small things that you handed me

A worn shirt and a fading frame

Not because I'm waiting

But because I can't lose your name

You were the calmest place

That I had ever found

Now I'm learning quiet rooms

Can empty out without a sound

Pre-Chorus

I don't know how to leave you

Without leaving half of me

Chorus

If this is goodbye

Don't tell me not to cry

I spent too many seasons

Pretending I was fine

I don't need an answer

I don't need to know why

Just stay until the morning

If this is goodbye

Bridge

And if you ever miss me

Don't return from guilt or shame

Remember me laughing

Remember me unafraid

Remember that I loved you

With everything I had

That's the one thing

I won't ever take back

Final Chorus

If this is goodbye

Then let me say it slowly

Thank you for the mornings

Thank you for the knowing

I'll carry what was golden

I'll release what made us cry

And even though it breaks me

I love you

Goodbye