Learning to Live Without You

verse 1

I used to be the place you ran to

when the world felt too heavy to hold.

You’d fall into my arms like a promise,

like we were written in something old.

But time has a way of unthreading

what the heart swore it would keep,

and now I’m standing in the doorway

watching you walk past me.

chorus

’Cause the hardest thing in life

is watching the one you can’t live without

learn to live without you.

Hearing your laughter in the distance,

knowing it no longer needs my name.

Loving you enough to let you go

even though it breaks me through and through.

Yeah, the hardest thing in life

is watching you learn to live without me too.

verse 2

I see you finding your footing,

building days that don’t include my hands.

You’re learning how to stand without me,

and I’m trying hard to understand.

People say that love is freedom,

but they never tell you what it costs

to smile while someone you’d die for

learns how to live with your loss.

chorus

’Cause the hardest thing in life

is watching the one you can’t live without

learn to live without you.

Hearing your laughter in the distance,

knowing it no longer needs my name.

Loving you enough to let you go

even though it breaks me through and through.

Yeah, the hardest thing in life

is watching you learn to live without me too.

bridge

Maybe this is how love grows —

in the empty spaces left behind,

in the quiet grace of letting go

what was never fully mine.

But God, it hurts to witness

the life you’re building brand new,

a life that’s somehow brighter

now that it’s shining without you.

final chorus

And the hardest thing in life

is watching the one you can’t live without

learn to live without you.

I’ll carry what we were together,

every truth and every bruise.

But I’m learning how to breathe again

in a world that’s missing you.

Yeah, the hardest thing in life

is watching you learn to live without me too.