Song Description

"The Last Time" is Violet Pen's melancholic pop ballad about a break-up and the heartbreak of losing someone you love. Pen writes with deep vulnerability as she describes in intimate detail the confusion and insecurities around the end of a relationship.

Lyrics

We said goodbye in April
The airport ride was long
Holding hands and playing SAINt John
I needed the music on

You squeezed my hand so tight
Like you just couldn't let go
Knowing we were ending
Made it safe to feel so low

Two months in your home
Where everything had its place
Except for me and all I wanted
There was no space

It was the last time I'd ever see your face
Maybe we never were right, we just lost our way
But I never understood how you seemed okay
While each time the door would close, I always seemed to break

That day in your bedroom
That final blow to my heart
Had to get back to California
Before I fell apart

I grabbed my suitcase from the car
You reached in for a hug
Always so controlled
Never giving anything up

Now I'm on a plane
And you're already making plans
You're letting go so fast

It was the last time I'd ever see your face
Maybe we never were right, we just lost our way
But I never understood how you seemed okay
While each time the door would close, I always seemed to break

What did it matter
Four years...whatever, remember that day by the tree
When we shared those hard things
I cried, we agreed to try again
Things would go differently
Wrong again, oh tell me why...

It was the last time I'd ever see your face
Maybe we never were right, we just lost our way
But I never understood how you seemed okay
While each time the door would close, I always seemed to break