It started on a Thursday night Warm wine, soft light You swore the sky looked different when I held you tight We traced our futures on the window in the rain Laughing like we never learned the meaning of pain And I said Promise me the truth even when it burns You smile back, you're the only one I'll never unlearn I should have known right then what forever really meant A word tossed in the breeze gone before it ever lands But I believed you like scripture written in gold Didn't know loving you meant losing parts of my soul Now midnight keeps your name inside It's mouth whispers it slow till the stars burn out I keep trying to forget what we became But every hour sounds exactly the same You said love was something you'd never betrayed Funny how you left without looking my way Now midnight keeps your name And I'm the ghost who still answers We danced in the kitchen too small for our dreams Stealing kisses between half finished plans and routine You talked about summers we'd spend on hidden coast I believed every word more than I believed in ghosts But then nights grew colder long before the fall You were there I my way photos but nowhere at all I keep stitching ribs and kept tearing apart You held my body close but you never held my heart I learned silence can scream louder than any fight And goodbye sometimes leaves without saying it's goodnight Now midnight keeps your name inside It's mouth repeated it until all my hope runs out I tried drowning the memories we made But they refuse to sink, refused to fade You swore we were something you'd always defend Funny how you walked when the fire needed men Now midnight keeps your name And I'm the ache that won't vanish My friend said your promises always came cheap That the things you buried would rise from the deep But I defended you like a kingdom under siege Didn't know I was fighting shadows you'd already released You changed your tone like seasons out of place Warming the message, ice cold to my face I stayed hoping time would fix what you broke But love can't breathe where the truth is soaked in smoke And I realized I was loving a version of you that never existed Not the one who withdrew Now midnight keeps your name inside It's mouth sings it in a lullaby too sweet, too loud I keep begging the Moon to rewrite the scene But the real plays on like a haunting routine You said I was someone you'd never let go Funny how you loosened your grip so slow Now midnight keeps your name And I'm the chapter you skipped I walk past the places where our shadows once met The bench by the river still holds your silhouette I try to outrun the months you stain But every street corner still echoes your name And I tell myself healing is a stubborn friend But forgetting you feels like an endless end And maybe you never meant stay forever Maybe we were borrowed hearts pretending to tether But I still curse the stars for letting me fall For a boy who couldn't love me at all You were poetry I learned too young A song that hurt every time it was sung I keep burning letters I never sent Still your ghost reads every cinnamon Now I'm leaning how to abandon without shaking How to live a life that's mine for the making Your memory knocks But I don't know let it in Guess even broken hearts can quietly win I found pieces of myself hidden under the pain Pick them up slowly in the cold autumn rain I'll admit sometimes I still whisper your name But only to prove I don't feel the same Cause loving you taught me who I won't be again And losing you taught me how my story begins Now midnight keeps your name inside It's mouth but it no longer hurts when it echoes out I'm rewriting the ending you tried to claim painting over every bruise you became You said I'd never survive once you walked away Funny how I'm brighter than you brightest day Now midnight keeps your name But I no longer answer So here's to the nights that carve me anew To the scars that shimmer in silver and blue You were a storm I learned to outlive A lesson the universe chose to give And if midnight whispers you back into view I'll let it speak but it won't undo the girl who grew stronger after losing you