The Sky Keeps What We Let Go 2 (Version 2)

Verse 1

Your shadow leans against the doorframe

Counting all the times I stayed behind

Every window in this room shows

A version of us I left behind

You're smiling at a photograph we took

Before the edges started to blur

Say it's not your fault that nothing lasts

But I can see you looking through my fur

Pre-Chorus

So let me hold onto something real for once

Something that doesn't fade when we turn around

I don't want to leave this on a doorstep somewhere

Not the memories, not yet

Chorus

Can you hear what the city's saying?

Keep your head up and your heart will stay

We are the only ones who ever really lived here

So let us burn our ghosts before we say goodbye

Verse 2

Your fingers graze my shoulder like a breeze

Every laugh we've shared is still in your eyes

You ask me which one was the real me

But I think you already know that one dies

I pull out the map where we drew our names

Every street looks different now but it's all the same

We used to promise we'd find our way back home

But the city eats up every sunset we've known

Pre-Chorus

So let me hold onto something real for once

Something that doesn't fade when we turn around

I don't want to leave this on a doorstep somewhere

Not the memories, not yet

Chorus

Can you hear what the city's saying?

Keep your head up and your heart will stay

We are the only ones who ever really lived here

So let us burn our ghosts before we say goodbye

Bridge

Maybe it wasn't the streets that changed us

Maybe it was just our own hands letting go of this place

You don't have to carry anything but hope

I'll hold onto everything we left behind for both of us

Every window still remembers how we used to shine

So let's keep burning till there's nothing left to define

Chorus

Can you hear what the city's saying?

Keep your head up and your heart will stay

We are the only ones who ever really lived here

So let us burn our ghosts before we say goodbye