I CAN HEAR YOUR HEART FROM A DISTANCE
Stanza 1
I loved you before I knew what love could cost,
Before I learned that some of the truest things are also the things we lose.
There was no world for us except the one we made
In stolen conversations, lingering silences,
And the way your voice could calm the storms inside my soul.
I knew the sound of your laughter,
I knew the weight of your tears,
And somewhere between your smile and your sorrow,
I gave you everything I had left of me.
But sometimes love is not defeated by the absence of feeling;
Sometimes it is defeated by the very things we cannot change.
Chorus
And I can hear your heart from a distance,
Calling my name through the silence of the night.
I can feel your love reaching for me,
Even when I can no longer hold you tight.
God knows I wanted to stay beside you,
To fight every battle and bear every scar.
But sometimes loving someone means walking away,
Even when they remain
The most beautiful part of your heart.
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Stanza 2
The night I left, I heard your tears before I saw them.
I heard every unspoken prayer hidden inside your voice.
You wanted me to stay,
And every part of me was begging to stay too.
But love should never become a place where healing dies.
I saw the weight you carried,
I saw the wounds we could not mend,
And I knew that if I truly loved you,
I had to choose your peace over my own happiness.
So I walked away,
Not because I loved you less,
But because I loved you more than I loved myself.
Chorus
And I can hear your heart from a distance,
Still whispering through the spaces between my breaths.
I can hear the love we could not silence,
Still alive inside all that we left unsaid.
Oh, I wanted nothing more than to stay,
To spend my life learning the language of your soul.
But sometimes the deepest act of love
Is becoming a memory,
So the one you love can become whole.
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Stanza 3
Now every night, when the world finally grows quiet,
I still speak to you as though you're sitting right beside me.
I still reach for your hand in dreams,
And wake up holding nothing but your memory.
And sometimes, I swear,
I can still hear your heart calling me.
My love, if you can hear mine too,
Please believe this one truth:
I did not leave because I stopped loving you.
I left because I loved you so deeply
That I could no longer watch love become your pain.
And if I stood before you now,
If I could hold your face in my hands one last time,
I would tell you this:
Final Chorus
I can hear your heart from a distance,
And I will hear it for the rest of my life.
I know you wanted me to stay.
God knows I wanted to stay too.
But my love,
I chose your healing over my happiness.
I chose your peace over my presence.
And if loving you meant losing you,
Then I would choose that loss again and again.
Because even now,
If I could touch your hand just one more time,
I would not ask you to come back.
I would only ask you to live,
To heal,
To smile again.
And then I would whisper,
With all the love I still carry for you:
"I never really left you.
I only stepped away,
So your heart could learn to beat without breaking."