We Were Never Supposed to Fade

Verse

Parking lot lights flicker orange on your face

Two coffees going cold in the back seat of my car

You're folding up the map to a town we'll never chase

Saying this is just the ending, not a scar

Pre-Chorus

So why's my chest still holding

Every mile we're losing

If this is really over

Then why does it feel like starting

Chorus

We were never supposed to fade

Just change color like the sky at end of day

Burning gold before it turns to gray

We were never supposed to fade away

Verse

Boxes taped and stacked up by the front door

Your handwriting still smudged on the kitchen wall

Six years folded into one cardboard drawer

But the dent you left is deeper than it all

Pre-Chorus

So why's my chest still holding

Every mile we're losing

If this is really over

Then why does it feel like starting

Chorus

We were never supposed to fade

Just change color like the sky at end of day

Burning gold before it turns to gray

We were never supposed to fade away

Bridge

Maybe endings aren't the enemy

Maybe letting go can set the whole sky free

I'll keep the ashes, you keep the flame

Two different fires, still burning the same

Chorus

We were never supposed to fade

Just change color like the sky at end of day

Burning gold before it turns to gray

We were never supposed to fade

Not an ending, just a brighter day

Rising up instead of blowing away

We were never supposed to fade away