The city is quiet tonight Not silent, just, tired Like me And I keep walking these streets Where your shadow still remembers my name I don't know if I'm looking for you Or trying to lose you for good You left your echoes in every window light Your touch in every cold reflection of glass I step where we once stood But the ground doesn't feel the same Your memory follows like perfume after the door closes It lingers, it holds, it clings I thought I could outgrow the ache But the ache grew with me The rain hides my face from strangers But it never hides me from myself It falls like everything we never said Everything we said too late And I keep hearing your goodbyes In the drops that hit the pavement Soft lies don't echo They dissolve I said I'd be fine I said I'd move on But I lied in the same softness you did No sharp edges No fights No final words Just the slow drowning of something we once called love I know you're somewhere warm Somewhere bright Somewhere untouched by the memory of us And I'm here Learning how to walk again In a city that remembers you better than I do You never meant to stay But I wanted you to The rain washes everything but you Your voice still lives in the quiet places Your hands still trace the outline of my nights I wear the distance between us Like a coat that never dries Every step I take feels like the one before Like time is looping around the moment you left I tried to forgive you For leaving gently But gentle endings hurt longer They don't bleed They bruise If love was real It should have stayed If love was real It should have tried But soft lies can feel like truth When spoken slowly enough I still walk the same streets But I don't look back anymore Not because I don't miss you But because missing you Is the only part of us that didn't leave