Hold No Memory

You knew me when I needed you.

You never noticed when that changed.

You kept my name inside your phone

Like that meant I was still around

But every conversation

Had another way out

You knew the roads I always took

The places where I’d disappear

Funny how you knew my habits

But never knew me here

I kept waiting for the moment You would finally understand I’m not

asking you to follow I’m just asking you to let me stand

I’M NOT YOURS TO KEEP!

I’m not a photograph you hide away I’m not the person you

remember Just because you need me to stay

I’M NOT YOURS TO KEEP!

You don’t get to hold me where I was

If you loved who I became You would’ve let me become enough

You called it being protective

Every time you pulled me back

But there’s a difference between caring

And keeping someone on a track

I spent years explaining

Every choice I made to you

Until I realized the strangest thing— I never had to I kept

waiting for the moment You would finally understand I’m not asking you

to follow I’m just asking you to let me stand

I’M NOT YOURS TO KEEP!

I’m not a photograph you hide away I’m not the person you

remember Just because you need me to stay

I’M NOT YOURS TO KEEP!

You don’t get to hold me where I was

If you loved who I became You would’ve let me become enough

There was a time I would’ve begged you not to go Now

I’m standing at the doorway And I already know Some goodbyes aren’t

failures.

Some of them are overdue.

So take my name!

Take the memories! Take everything you thought you knew!

BUT YOU DON’T GET ME!

YOU DON’T OWN ME!

(no!) YOU DON’T DECIDE WHO I’M SUPPOSED TO BE!

I’M NOT YOURS!

I’M NOT YOURS TO KEEP!

I’m not a photograph you hide away I’m not the person you

remember Just because you need me to stay I’M NOT YOURS TO

KEEP!

And I finally understand

Sometimes walking out the door Is how you learn to make your

own plans

You knew me when I needed you.

Now you know me when I don’t.