It doesn’t seem right to let go of something you’ve had for so
long, but it doesn’t seem right, either, to hold onto something
that’s just not there anymore.

I want you to live. I want you to love. I want you to go on and not give up.
I want you to live. I want you to try. I want you to know I'm alright.
I want you to fall in love again. I want to see you smile again and again.
I want you to live.

It’s the hardest thing, being in love with a memory, searching for what
no longer exists, and in the end all you can do is decide what you want
to remember next.

I am proud to say I don’t need to drink myself stupid to make the demons
go away. Yeah, maybe you forgot about me for the night, and maybe you
even managed to get with somebody else. But I promise you, that bottle
won’t go much further than that. I’ll be the one better off and moving on,
I’ll leave you behind.

So if I'm not returning your calls it's 'cause
'Cause I'm not comin' back I'm closing the door
I used to be trippin' over missin' you but I'm not anymore
I got the picture phone but baby your picture's gone
Couldn't stand to see your smile every time you dialed

Without you, I live it up a little more every day. Without you,
I’m seeing myself so differently. I didn’t wanna believe it then,
but it all worked out in the end. When I watched you walk away,
well I never thought I’d say, I’m fine without you.

Every day that we don't speak is another day I don't need you.
And I slowly stop missing you.

If you believe it’s in my soul,
I’d say all the words that I know,
Just to see if it would show,
That I'm trying to let you know,
That I’m better off on my own.

And I don’t understand what happened between you and me but
You will probably end up with someone half as good as me so
I don’t care if you want to look in my eyes and say hello
You were blind to me now I’m blind to you

Yesterday was hell, but today I'm fine without you.
Run away this time without you
and all I ever thought you'd be.
That face is tearing holes in me, but today I'm fine without you.

Someday being with him will be a distant memory. This fact makes
me sad too. It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem
to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you
consider how much they've missed in your life.
-Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

Empty fields move me so much more than rooms filled up with friends.
The way the trees look dead reminds me that there's more to life than living.
Maybe giving up isn't bad, but part of letting go of you.

Because your face it doesn't look like it did. You give away everything now
that you've hid. You, you want only to never get lonely, so you opened up
your arms and took me in. And this our last goodbye, and this is a perfect
lie told by someone that I used to know back then.

Someday I will find the courage to embrace you.
Someday I will find the strength to erase you.

That's the hardest part, the letting go. But the ironic part is
that that's where the freedom is. Right at the moment of
letting go. And ultimately that's all we ever have.

God that was strange to see you again, introduced by a friend of a friend,
smiled and said 'yes I think we've met before'. In that instant it started to
pour, captured a taxi despite all the rain, we drove in silence across Pont
Champlain. And all of the time you thought I was sad,
I was trying to remember your name.

So many of us find ourselves saying, “But he was so great.” Yes,
and the people on the Titanic thought they were on a vacation.
Things change and it’s important to remember that they did.

Well it's too late, and I won't change my mind
Because I'm tired of chasing something that is just not mine,
And I'm closing all my doors to you in record time, and
You're on the outside.

You meant more to me than anyone I ever loved at all. But you taught
me how to trust myself, and so I say to you: this is what I have to do. Cause
I don't know who I am, who I am without you. All I know is that I should.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
-Hermann Hesse