Description: This is a no-holds-barred heartbreak ballad about a woman trying, but failing, to hold a long-term relationship together. She’s too invested to blow it up herself but too self-aware not to know exactly what is happening. The music is simple and powerful, with a tension that explodes in raw emotion. Eventually she cries out in anger and frustration. If you’ve never been through something like this, odds are you know someone who has.
Artist Fit: Lainey Wilson, Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce, Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, Brandy Clark, Maddie & Tae, Shania Twain, Tenille Townes, Ingrid Andress
Sync Keywords: Emotional distance, fading love, quiet heartbreak, relationship tension, longing, vulnerability
Lyrics
Another Friday evening you say you’re with the guys,
I guess at least it’s something that you care enough to lie,
You’re leaving me by inches, walking slowly out the door,
I wish you’d say it’s over cause I can’t take this no more.
I’m losing you a little at a time,
I guess you think that hiding it is kind.,
I’ve tried so hard to hold you, there’s nothing I can say,
I close my arms around you and feel you slip away.
When we go out together, I try so not to see,
You look at other women like you used to look at me.
We fake it with each other, but we know the truth ourselves,
'Cause even when you love me, you’re loving someone else.
I’m losing you a little at a time,
I guess you think that hiding it is kind.
I’ve tried so hard to hold you, but there’s nothing I can say,
I close my arms around you and feel you slip away.
All our years together,
I can’t believe they’re gone,
Can't make myself let go but I can’t hold on.
I know that I still love you,
And you don’t love me,
It’s killing me to stay but I can’t get free.
I’m losing you a little at a time,
I guess you think that hiding it is kind.
I’ve tried so hard to hold you, but there’s nothing I can say,
I close my arms around you and feel you slip away