Echo of Your Goodbye

I tried to still my beating heart,
but your name keeps breaking through.
Like a winter wind that slips inside
no matter what I do.
I gave you every dream I had,
every chance I dared to try.
Yet you kept your distance,
never once looked in my eyes.

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[Pre-Chorus]
And I pretend I’m stronger
than the truth I try to hide.
I’m afraid I’ll never be
the love you had in mind.

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[Chorus]
Still I wait for you,
though I know you’re never walking back.
Your silence hit me harder
than the cruelest words you never had.
And it tears me down—
I’m screaming on the inside,
but all I hear is the echo of your goodbye.
I loved you more than you could know…
yet you never heard my cry.

You said you meant every word,
but honesty can cut like steel.
And all the promises you didn’t make
became the ones I chose to feel.
Now I gather up the pieces
of a truth that wasn’t mine.
Loving you alone,
was a fall without an end in sight.

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[Pre-Chorus]
And I keep on trying
to forget what we never were.
Lost you without having you—
and it still aches like it occurred.

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[Chorus]
Still I wait for you,
though I know you’re never walking back.
Your silence hit me harder
than the cruelest words you never had.
And it tears me down—
I’m screaming on the inside,
but all I hear is the echo of your goodbye.
I loved you more than you could know…
yet you never heard my cry.

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[Bridge]
Oh, if I could undo
every step I took toward you…
But my restless heart keeps pulling
to a place you’ll never stay.
No kind of love, not even mine,
could ever make you stay.

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[Final Chorus]
Still I wait for you,
though I know you’re never walking back.
Your silence is a storm
where I learned how not to come back.
And I’m still screaming on the inside,
but all I hear is the echo of your goodbye.
I loved you more than life itself…
and you never heard my cry.
No, you never heard my cry.