Already Forgiven - Basia Bulat

They say in time it fades

Forget when you had me

Why can’t I look away from the face I’ve seen

Saw it on those days we spent in the park

Saw you chasing dreams down the boulevard

And I saw you’re already forgiven

It takes so long to say it

Already forgiven

How long I let it stay

I can’t escape my name

And I don’t even try

When my body’s tired of drinking bitter wine

When the cup it breaks in my hand each time

When the cup it breaks in my hand each time

Telling me you’re already forgiven

Will take me years to say it

Already forgiven

How could I let you stay

I want to leave my line

And let my old ways fall

Into the shapes I could have foreseen at all

In my hands this time I don’t know what I hold

But I know you’re already for-

Already forgiven

I took up the pieces of what remained

I tried to build a fire when there was no flame

But I tried to find in my heart and me

What I tried to find in my heart and me

Telling me that you’re already forgiven

It took me years to say it

Already forgiven

How could I let it stay

Already forgiven

It takes me years to say it

Already forgiven

How can I let it fade