Trying to Let You Go

If I would have told you a thousand
Times a day just how beautiful you are
Would you have been able to understand
It's not just some wish on you like a star
I gave my best, but it never sent
It only gave you something to contend
I tried to love you, but I couldn't
I'd rather let you go than pretend
The winter fell in love with spring
When flowers came the thaw revealed
The broken limb of a small offering
The winter from your warmth recoiled
With grass that will never grow
I'm just trying to let you go

You only said love when we made it
I would almost say it without thinking
Moving on doesn't make me a hypocrite
But like a child into you I was sinking
When it comes to love you were the closest
Then the sweetness you tasted aged sour
I gave my all if you cared to notice
Spring tried so hard to scrape up a flower
The spring fell in love with winter
Autumn blessed us with golden shade
Now your wind became too bitter
You've killed even what love we made
While you're out plowing snow
I'm just trying to let you go

The things I wish I could say
I'm afraid they would hurt you
So I'll refrain for another day
Instead I'll say nothing that's new
Another man got my woman
The weary blues got me
Maybe he as no need to summon
The man that I could never be
I wish you would have gotten better
Instead of hiding yourself in him
I suppose I've got nothing to offer
the best I've done is making you dim
Even now I struggle to allow
I'm still trying let you go

You shouldn't be afraid to hurt me
I've been hurt in worse ways before
Please don't take yourself so seriously
As you left you should've left bricks in door
Know that people move in different ways
I'm really doing the best that I can
I'm thankful to find a man who stays
This need in me you can't understand
I'm human like you after all is said and done
I don't need these things you want for
A battle that's hard fought and then won
I need one who takes me not one I adore
I say I don't need you though
I'm still trying to let you go