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Let Alone The One You Love

3:06pop soul Album The Art of Loving 2025-09-26

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Description

Sometimes tenderness becomes suffocating - like a blanket that no longer fits two people. It all seemed to start with warmth: a soft evening, quiet laughter, familiar security. And then, suddenly, it becomes impossible to breathe in this comfort. And now every “take it easy” sounds not like concern, but like an attempt to diminish.

Here, love is not a cry or a drama, but a realization: the embrace that used to save you now holds you too tightly. And letting go is the only way to breathe again. It hurts, but it's honest. Like a breakup that was necessary to stay whole.

Lyrics and translation

Original

Thought I was done with this feeling

Really thought you could be him

Thought I was safe, hmm

You were the warmth that I needed

Like a breeze in the evening

And then you changed

You're all the same, yeah

It's too much to mend

You're the hug that had to end

Though I've tried to hold on

And if you knew me at all

You wouldn't try to keep me small

Who would do that to a friend

Let alone the one you love?

And any choice you had worth making

I'd push you to take it

No questions asked, no doubt in mind

But when they're mine, yeah

You react like I'm crossing a line

I'm too much to handle and just dial it back a bit

Well, well, I'm not having it, babe

It's too much to mend

You're the hug that had to end

Though I've tried to hold on

And if you knew me at all

You wouldn't try to keep me small, mm

Who would do that to a friend

Let alone the one you love?

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