I found an old playlist on a dusty hard drive today
The file dates back to when you used to stay
Late nights in my room with the radio playing low
Your head on my shoulder while the melody kept flowing
The first song starts playing and my hands start to shake
Our song the one you sang when I made a mistake
You'd hold my face gently and say it would be fine
But that was before you decided to say goodbye
Now every track is a photograph in time
The way you'd fall asleep after staying up all night
That Bon Jovi track you played on our first real date
How you laughed at my singing and called it truly great
I remember the rain that night in November
When we danced in the kitchen to that old December
You wore your mother's old sweater it smelled like home
Now I can't even wear it when I'm alone
The playlist moves forward but I'm stuck in rewind
Every chorus reminds me of the look in your eyes
You said you'd love me forever in a song you dedicated
Now that same song plays and I feel so defeated
There's a track from the summer we spent by the sea
You wrote those lyrics yourself and you sang them to me
I still remember the way the sand felt under our feet
How could something so beautiful end up so incomplete
You used to hum this melody when you were upset
I'd hold you until the pain settled in your chest
But who holds me now when the memories attack
Who listens to me when I can't get myself back
This song was playing when you finally said
That loving me felt more like an act
I played it on repeat until the morning came
And when the sun rose you had already changed
The hard drive spins slowly like my broken heart
I've listened to this playlist almost a hundred times apart
From you from us from everything we were
From every whispered promise and every tender word
There's a song on here that you sang in the shower
Off-key and so careless it became our favorite hour
I'd wait outside the bathroom door just to hear you try
Now I can't even stand to hear a bathroom song nearby
This playlist knows me better than anyone alive
It remembers the person I was when I could still survive
Before the silence grew between us like a wall
Before you stopped calling and stopped loving me at all
Some nights I scroll through every single track
Trying to remember exactly how it all fell back
But the ending came so quiet so soft so undefined
Like a song that just stops with half its verse still in mind
I should delete this playlist I should throw it all away
Clear the hard drive clean and give my heart a break
But I keep pressing play I keep staying in the past
Because every song with you was built to last
Now the playlist ends where it began to grow
In a room full of echoes where I let you go
Your favorite song is playing one last time
And I'm still here searching for some answer in the rhyme
Maybe someday I'll find the strength to close this door
To let the silence in and then to let it restore
All the broken pieces of the love we used to make
But tonight I'll just press play again for your sweet sake
Because this old playlist holds the only parts of you
That I can still hold onto when the nights feel so blue
And if loving your memory is the closest I can get
Then I'll play these broken songs until I finally forget