The End - Based on Martinus Nijhof

VERSE 1 The night was fading out around our skin, and outside all the early birds were singing. The sunlight slipped between the curtains’ lines, a quiet glow that slowly filled the room. But we were still caught in the afterlight, the tired flame of everything we’d been, and shadows moved between us like reminders of every word we couldn’t say in time.PRE‑CHORUS This was the ending of our final night. I leaned my head against the windowpane, you stood behind me, trembling in the silence. Whatever lived between us lost its light.CHORUS So let it go, let it fade, we were standing at the edge of what we made. What broke can stay where it fell, we don’t have to carry it anymore. Let it go, let it fade, the morning pulled us forward anyway. What we couldn’t keep alive time has taken from our hands.VERSE 2 No need to chase the echoes of before, the story couldn’t hold itself together. Sometimes the truth just opens up the door, and leaves us standing in a brighter weather. We tried to hold the pieces in our palms, but some things fall the moment they are spoken. And now the daylight tells us it’s enough — not every ending has to leave us broken.PRE‑CHORUS This was the ending of our final night. The sun came in and told the truth for us. Whatever lived between us lost its light.CHORUS So let it go, let it fade, we were standing at the edge of what we made. What broke can stay where it fell, we don’t have to carry it anymore. Let it go, let it fade, the morning pulled us forward anyway. What we couldn’t keep alive time has taken from our hands.