Grieving the Future

by Eleri Ward

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I’ve been grieving the future
I’ve been crying over things I never had
I’ve been mourning my day dreams
I’ve been losing all the things I want so bad
I’ve been closing myself in
I’ve been holding onto all that isn’t there
I’ve been falling in fake love
I’ve been making it real so now I care

So I’m
Crying crying over nothing
Crying crying over things in my head
Trying trying to hold onto
All the plans I wanna keep, visions of you and me

I’ve been looking with eyes closed
I’ve been running from a present state of mind
I’ve been hiding in plain sight
Cuz I’ve been fooling everybody with a smile
But I’ve been breaking my own heart
I’ve been dying with the hope I used to have
And I’ve been falling apart
The only thing that held me up was never there

So I’m
Crying crying over nothing
Crying crying over things in my head
Trying trying to hold onto
All the plans I wanna keep, visions of you and me
Crying over nothing
Crying over things in my head
Trying to hold onto
All the plans I wanna keep, visions of you and me

You can grieve the past, you can grieve a lover who didn’t last, but you can’t grieve the future
You can grieve the past, you can grieve a lover who didn’t last, but you can’t grieve the future
(Cuz it feels so good to think of the way I want it
It feels so good to get everything I wanted
It feels too good to stop making up my sorrow
It feels too good to stop living in tomorrow)

Crying over nothing
Crying over things in my head
Trying to let go of
All the plans I wanna keep, visions of you and me
Crying crying over nothing
Crying crying over something I dreamt
Now I’m letting go of
All the plans I tried to keep, it never was you and me

(You can grieve the past, you can grieve a lover who didn’t last, but you can’t grieve the future)
You can grieve the past, you can grieve a lover who didn’t last, but you can’t grieve the future

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released September 8, 2023
Written by Eleri Ward
Produced by Allen Tate, Sean McVerry, Eleri Ward
Mixed & Mastered by Tyler Mcdiarmid
Engineered by Allen Tate

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