I can Love You Leaving

Lyrics

[Verse 1] There’s a picture on the dashboard From Panama City spring Back when all we needed was cheap beer And somewhere to dream Now every conversation Feels like walking through a mine And every “I love you” sounds exhausted Like we’re running outta time [Pre-Chorus] Nobody cheated Nobody lied We just loved too hard For too long on one fire [Chorus] So leave before we hate each other Before these words turn into scars Before your name feels unfamiliar Before we poison what we are I still see my best friend Every time you walk in That’s why I gotta let you go Before the bitter ever wins [Verse 2] I know your favorite songs still Know how you take your Jack Know exactly what that silence means When your anxiety attacks And that’s the thing that breaks me This ain’t strangers falling apart This is two people with good intentions Dragging broken hearts [Pre-Chorus] And I can’t watch us slowly become A memory we can’t stand [Chorus] So leave before we hate each other Before forgiveness gets too far Before these walls become permanent And love forgets what we are You’re still the one I’d call If the whole world came crashing That’s why I’m standing here tonight Instead of letting this turn tragic [Bridge] Maybe love ain’t always fighting Maybe sometimes love lets go Maybe mercy looks like heartbreak Maybe real love finally knows When holding on Starts killing both souls [Breakdown] And I swear to God If you needed me tomorrow I’d still come running through the rain That’ll never change [Final Chorus] So leave before we hate each other Before the good gets buried deep Before we turn our safest place Into something neither of us keeps You were my home before my lover My peace before my healing And that’s exactly why tonight… I can survive you leaving [Outro] Some people lose a lover We almost lost a best friend too 🌙