Lyrics

I quit the cigarettes.
Quit the late-night drives.
Quit a hundred different ways
Of trying not to lose my mind.

But I never quit you.

You're a habit wearing a human face.
A beautiful mistake I can't replace.
A fever that returns each winter.
A war that never ends.

I see you in strangers.
In station lights.
In every empty seat
On every sleepless night.

You keep coming back like a ghost.
Like a song I never chose.
Like a wound beneath the skin
That never really closed.

I tried to let you go.
I tried to cut the ties.

But some memories survive
Long after goodbye.

I deleted every photograph.
Still know every line of your face.
Burned every bridge behind me.
Still find myself at the same place.

Some ghosts don't fade.
They just learn new ways.

You keep coming back like a ghost.
Like a song I never chose.
Like a wound beneath the skin
That never really closed.

I tried to let you go.
I tried to cut the ties.

But some memories survive
Long after goodbye.

Maybe it wasn't love.
Maybe it was obsession.

Maybe I fell in love
With the absence you left behind.

You keep coming back like a ghost.
Through the silence and the smoke.
Through the years I thought would bury
Everything we broke.

I quit the cigarettes.
Quit the late-night drives.

But after all this time,

You're still the hardest thing
To leave behind.