I Can Love You From Here

[Verse 1]
We kept the receipt from that little place
Where rain came in through the window frame
You drew a map on the paper sleeve
Of all the towns we said we'd leave

[Pre-Chorus]
I used to think goodbye would erase
The roads we took to get to that place
But every mile still has your name
Not as a promise—just a trace

[Chorus]
So let it hurt, let it mean what it meant
Let the years rise up like a choir in my chest
We were there, we were real, we were more than the end
I can carry the joy without asking it back again
And if my heart breaks open, let the whole world hear
I loved you in the living; I can love you from here

[Verse 2]
Your coat on the chair, my keys by the door
Small ordinary things I don't own anymore
I pass that station where we missed our train
And smile at the joke you made in the rain

[Pre-Chorus]
The past isn't a room I can enter and stay
It's a road that keeps widening as I walk away
I don't have to lose what I can't make remain
To be grateful we found it along the way

[Chorus]
So let it hurt, let it mean what it meant
Let the years rise up like a choir in my chest
We were there, we were real, we were more than the end
I can carry the joy without asking it back again
And if my heart breaks open, let the whole world hear
I loved you in the living; I can love you from here

[Bridge]
If time is a river, then let it run wide
Take every last summer, take every last ride
I won't call it wasted because it couldn't stay
The road was still beautiful, mile by mile, anyway
You were a chapter, not a debt I must pay
I bless what we were as I turn the page

[Final Chorus]
So let it hurt, let it mean what it meant
Let the years rise up like a choir in my chest
We were there, we were real, we were more than the end
I can carry the joy without asking it back again
And if my heart breaks open, let the whole world hear
I loved you in the living; I can love you from here
I loved you in the living—now I let you be past
The beauty was ours, and the beauty will last

[Outro]
The beauty was ours
The road goes on