Jeremy Natale Music

Lyrics

[INTRO]
| Dm | Bb | F | C |


[VERSE 1]
Dm
I learned to hear the danger in the turning of a key,
Bb
To read the room before the room could turn its eyes on me.
F
You chased another promise through the numbers and the lights,
C
While I was trying to survive another long and broken night.

Dm
I wanted you to choose me, but the wager always won,
Bb
And every time I reached for you, there was nowhere safe to run.
F
I carried all the blame you left like stones inside my clothes,
C
Till I found enough of me to face the door I had to close.


[PRE-CHORUS]
Bb C
I can love who I needed you to be,
Dm A
And still protect what's left of me.


[CHORUS]
Bb F
So I had to let you go, with no funeral to grieve,
C Dm
For the mother I kept hoping you would someday choose to be.
Bb F
And I cut the family ties that kept pulling me below;
C Dm
It wasn't hate that made me leave—it was the only way to grow.


[VERSE 2]
Dm
No more calls that bend the truth or debts I didn't make,
Bb
No more paying for the damage just to keep the family safe.
F
I won't gamble with my peace to prove my heart is still sincere;
C
Love should never mean returning to the place that taught me fear.

Dm
The child I was deserved a home where love was not a test,
Bb
So I built one in the quiet and I finally learned to rest.
F
Blood can give a family name, but blood can't make it home,
C
And being on my own is not the same as being wrong.


[PRE-CHORUS]
Bb C
I don't owe my pain another chance;
Dm A
I don't have to bleed to prove I am.


[CHORUS]
Bb F
So I had to let you go, with no funeral to grieve,
C Dm
For the mother I kept hoping you would someday choose to be.
Bb F
And I cut the family ties that kept pulling me below;
C Dm
It wasn't hate that made me leave—it was the only way to grow.


[BRIDGE]
Gm
Some nights I miss the mother that I never got to know,
Dm
And grief can feel like guilt when you're the one who chose to go.
Bb
But a boundary isn't cruelty, and silence can be kind;
A
I didn't break the family—I just stopped it breaking mine.

Gm
I can mourn the dream I carried without walking back inside;
Dm
I can tell the child within me, "You no longer have to hide."
Bb
Every mile away from chaos is a promise I can keep;
C
I am choosing something gentler. I am choosing peace.


[FINAL CHORUS]
Bb F
So I had to let you go, and I still mourn what couldn't be,
C Dm
But the child you left unguarded has a grown-up now in me.
Bb F
I have cut the family ties; I am choosing my own road.
C Dm
I can love the dream and leave the hurt behind the door I closed.

Bb F
No more wagers with my heart, no more begging to be known;
C Dm
I didn't leave because I hate you—I left to make myself a home.


[OUTRO]
| Dm | Bb | F | Dm |

I left to make myself a home,
Behind the door I closed.