✍🏻 LYRICS & COMPOSITION BY EME LATINA (2025)

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ABOUT:
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This song closes out my year, because it captures an attempt at saying goodbye. It acknowledges the simple truth that ignoring pain doesn’t erase it, yet you must (and you try to) move past it at some point. This song exists in the space between denial and acceptance... Ending the year here felt honest.

Thank you for listening.

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LYRICS:
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[Intro]
I've wanted to say goodbye
so many times...
but I couldn't bring myself to do it
How do I do it?

[Verse 1]
I've suppressed you
from my mind
Abstained you
from my heart
Yet still you break
my soul!

[pre-Chorus]
I've tried to hold on to this hollow
I've tried to lead myself to follow...

[Chorus]
If I pretend long enough,
hard enough,
sure enough--
you're still here,
your hands drawing near;
the suspended belief:
this isn't grief
Right? This isn't grief.

[Interlude]

[Verse 2]
No month is safe
I miss you regardless
I mourn you regardless
I lost you regardless

[pre-Chorus]
I've tried to hold on to this hollow
I've tried to lead myself to follow...

[Chorus]
If I pretend long enough,
hard enough,
sure enough--
you're still here,
your hands drawing near;
the suspended belief:
this isn't grief
Right? This isn't grief.

[Bridge]
This is a sad song, sad story,
sad happenstance of life...
It ain't good, it ain't bad,
it is existence of life...

[pre-Chorus]
It is what it is...
And what is it?
It is like being drawn from memory;
you feel wholly different.
You lift your same hands,
to your same face,
and somewhere between fingers that trace...
you find out you're missing
from yourself

[Reprised Chorus]
You pretend long enough,
hard enough,
sure enough--
but you're still here,
your hands drawing near;
the suspended belief:
this isn't grief
Right? This isn't grief.

[Outro]
This isn't... grief
This isn't grief.
If you turn off your thoughts,
the sentiments will subside,
by and bye,
by your side,
by and bye...
bye.