Ashes of Our Song

[Verse 1]
He says
I kept your cup on the counter
Dust on the rim
But I leave it
Like proof that we once were daring
Before we learned how to leave

She says
I fold your shirt in the closet
Buttons that still know my fingers
I talk to the empty fabric
Pretend that it still breathes (oh)

[Chorus]
This is our sad love
Our suffering romance
Two ghosts in a hallway that never had a chance
We waltz through the wreckage
Pretend we belong
Holding to ashes
Ashes of our song

[Verse 2]
He says
Your name is stuck in my mirror
Fog on the glass
I write it
Then watch it fade into nothing
Like every half-kept vow

She says
I wear the ring in my pocket
Cold little circle of silence
It beats a bruise in my heartbeat
A secret I won’t show now

[Chorus]
This is our sad love
Our suffering romance
Two ghosts in a hallway that never had a chance
We waltz through the wreckage
Pretend we belong
Holding to ashes
Ashes of our song

[Bridge]
He asks
If I had loved you softer
Would you have stayed?

She asks
If I had loved you louder
Who’d we have betrayed?

Together
We meet in the middle
On a memory’s floor
Touch hands in a moment
Then close the same door (oh no)

[Chorus]
This is our sad love
Our suffering romance
Two ghosts in a hallway that never had a chance
We waltz through the wreckage
Pretend we belong
Holding to ashes
Ashes of our song

[Outro]
He says
I’m learning to miss you
She says
I’m trying to heal
Together
In different cities
We carry the same unreal