Letters to Ghosts of the Past

The Descent to the Crown

To the one I can't love anymore,

Forever forgotten, not one thing to stop it
I missed you for too long

Nothing lasts forever
I left it up to chance
You found someone better
No more devil's dance

I still remember loving you
Maybe I could again
Regret and fear surround me
Everything good must end

I look at you together
And see the end too soon
I know you could do better
But there's no hiding the moon

I still remember loving you
Simplicity at its best
But now there's nothing I can do
We failed time and its test

No more late night promises
Of days that never came
No more broken-hearted tears
Washed away by rain

I knew a you that is now gone
A different version
A sad, sad song

I remember a person that's dead to the world
A different lifetime
No more diamonds and pearls

I forget what it was like to love you
But I remember all the same
I still wish that could be true
I have those memories framed

Many a time I've tried to let go
But fear won't let me do it
So in the end I want you to know
It was never me who ruined it

You're the one who walked away
Not a single explanation
But I'm the one who will betray
This is your affirmation

I'm letting go of the memory
Of who you used to be
I'm holding on to a revery
This is my guarantee

Goodbye to the one I once held so close
You left someone else in your wake
I took your love in too big a dose
And all you did was take

I'm letting the memory fade away
I'm forgetting who you were
The pictures and moments, those will stay
But our time went by in a blur

So in the end all I can say
Is that I wish you well
All that's left is those moments to replay
And time for you to dwell

On what we used to be
On who you left alone
On who you lost when you met him
On how I found my throne