Lullaby - Kalie Shorr

I don’t want to chain smoke cigarettes by myself anymore

Don’t want to drink whiskey out of the bottle on the bathroom floor

And I don’t want to hate somebody I barely know just for loving you

Because if I’m honest, I get it, once upon a time I did too

This is the sound of letting it go

Of learning to sleep when you’re sleeping alone

Of figuring out how to love when you don’t

I’m gonna scream, and I’m gonna cry

But tonight I won’t need the hallway light

I’m singing one last lullaby

And I’m putting this to bed

I built a little altar to all that’s left of what we were

I lit a few Mother Mary candles that I stole from a Catholic church

I let it be, I let it burn, let it go, just like us

I said a prayer, I sang a song, and I think Jesus heard me cuss

This is the sound of letting it go

Of learning to sleep when you’re sleeping alone

Of figuring out how to love when you don’t

I’m gonna scream, and I’m gonna cry

But tonight I won’t need the hallway light

I’m singing one last lullaby

And I’m putting this to bed

I’m putting this to bed

I won’t lie and say it’s easy

Even I wouldn’t believe me

I ain’t trying to be mean

But thanks for leaving

This is the sound of letting it go

Of learning to sleep when you’re sleeping alone

Of figuring out how to love when you don’t

I’m gonna scream, and I’m gonna cry

But tonight I won’t need the hallway light

I’m singing one last lullaby

And I’m putting this to bed

I’m putting this to bed

I’m putting this to bed