Brian Otucho

Mortal

When you said goodbye

but you just can’t leave,

When you hold so tight

that your hands they bleed,

So take these lungs

cause you were my air;

I keep breathing in and out

but you’re not there.

 

We never think that we run out of time,

Always believed we could keep it alive,

Didn’t know then you were everything,

I’m haunted by all the words that I said,

Waking up in a hospital bed,

I Didn’t know then you were everything-

When the time comes you gotta let it go

When the time comes you gotta let it go

 

Every star that lights up the sky

will always burn the brightest as they die.

 

We never think that we run out of time,

Always believed we could keep it alive,

Didn’t know then you were everything,

I’m haunted by all the words that I said,

Waking up in a hospital bed,

I Didn’t know then you were everything-

When the time comes you gotta let it go

When the time comes you gotta let it go

 

When the fire dies and there’s no light and

I see you for the last time I-

I have to let it go!

When I lose to the skyline

can’t follow you to the other side I-

I have to let it go.

 

When the time comes you gotta let it go!

When your whole life depends on

these hands that you hold-

When the time comes you gotta let it go!