​(Gentle piano intro, building slightly with a soft, steady rhythm)

​(Verse 1)

I remember carrying your love like a weighted chain

Every single step I took was a quiet, suffocating pain

I was trying to be the man you always saw in your head

A perfect silhouette of someone I was never meant to be instead

And I tried so hard to force a heart to beat a different way

Pretending that tomorrow would be better than today

But the air grew thin, the walls were closing in on me

And I just kept smiling, praying for a reason to be free

​(Pre-Chorus)

So when you said we were done, I expected a dark and heavy blow

But I swear to God, the only thing I felt was letting go

No angry words, no tear-stained cheeks, just a sudden, simple sound

Of a thousand burdens falling to the ground

​(Chorus)

And my heart felt light as a feather, I finally could breathe

I was standing at the edge of an ending, with nothing left to grieve

And the sky was so much wider, the horizon endless and new

'Cause the love that was meant for me was waiting beyond me and you

I'm so grateful you loved me, but I couldn't love you the way you needed me to

I'm finally free, from a love that was just too heavy for two

​(Verse 2)

I thought I knew the story, the way the pages were meant to turn

I thought I saw the ending in the lessons I was meant to learn

But every chapter led me back to a story that was wrong

Like a melody I played with a different kind of song

But now the book is open, and a brand new tale is told

The character is different, his heart is brave and bold

And I'm not looking back at a path that I didn't take

I'm just staring at a future I get to finally make

​(Pre-Chorus)

So when you said we were done, I expected a dark and heavy blow

But I swear to God, the only thing I felt was letting go

No angry words, no tear-stained cheeks, just a sudden, simple sound

Of a thousand burdens falling to the ground

​(Chorus)

And my heart felt light as a feather, I finally could breathe

I was standing at the edge of an ending, with nothing left to grieve

And the sky was so much wider, the horizon endless and new

'Cause the love that was meant for me was waiting beyond me and you

I'm so grateful you loved me, but I couldn't love you the way you needed me to

I'm finally free, from a love that was just too heavy for two

​(Bridge)

It's like jumping off a cliff with nothing but the air to fall

But in the long descent, I'm answering my own call

And wings are growing from my back, a feeling I can't name

It's like stumbling in a dark cave, but the fear is not the same

This is a new kind of love, the kind I find in me

And the discovery is a frightening, beautiful thing

​(Outro - soft, vulnerable, piano fades)

I can finally breathe...

I can finally breathe...

It's not sadness...

It's just relief...

I can breathe...