God, Help Me Unlove You
Carlos Lafaete
God
If You can still hear me
Teach me how to forget
The one I still love
I've deleted all our photographs
But I can't erase the way I felt
Changed my routes, avoided every corner
But every road leads back to you somehow
I've tried pretending that I'm healing
Smiling so no one will suspect
But when the nighttime finds me silent
It's your name I whisper once again
I know it's over
I know you're not coming back
But why does my heart
Still leave the door unlocked?
If loving means letting go
Why can't I release you?
God, help me unlove you
Let go of the hands that won't stay with me
Take this love from deep inside my soul
If there's no more us, why does it hurt this much?
God, if I can no longer ask You
To bring this love back to me
Then teach me how to survive
The love I can't forget
Help me forget
Help me forget
What my heart
Refuses to lose
I made promises before the mirror
Swore I wouldn't reach out this time
But one memory, one little piece of advice
And all my courage crumbled overnight
Will there come a day I'll hear your name
Without feeling my whole world fall apart?
Will time ever change this longing
To hold someone who no longer wants to stay?
I know it's over
I know you're not coming back
But why does my heart
Still leave the door unlocked?
If loving means letting go
Why can't I release you?
God, help me unlove you
Let go of the hands that won't stay with me
Take this love from deep inside my soul
If there's no more us, why does it hurt this much?
God, if I can no longer ask You
To bring this love back to me
Then teach me how to survive
The love I can't forget
I don't want this person to suffer
I don't wish for them to return out of pity
I just don't know how to close this chapter
Without tearing a piece out of my heart
I'm not asking You to make me stop loving them overnight
Just give me one day
When remembering doesn't destroy me inside
One day when I can finally breathe
Without feeling like I'm losing
God, help me unlove you
Let go of the hands that won't stay with me
Take this love from deep inside my soul
I need to find a road that leads me somewhere new
God, if I can no longer ask You
To bring this love back to me
Then teach me how to live again
Even while loving the one I need to forget
God
You don't have to erase the story
Just help me
Stop living inside it
Amen