In "there's no easy way to put this..." by Tyler Shaw, a couple keeps returning to the same painful road despite moments of joy that never heal the hurtful words between them. Packing to leave while being watched makes the departure almost impossible, and the image of misaligned stars over their oasis captures how the love simply cannot thrive. The repeated admission that letting go feels unbearable, even when staying means stumbling again, lands as the ache of knowing a relationship has run its course but still being unable to walk away.
there’s no easy way to put this… Lyrics by Tyler Shaw
Through all the pain and sacrifice
And if we still can’t get it right
Then ain’t that a sign to move along
We’ve had moments being overjoyed
Happy tears won’t fill the void
Of all the hurtful things we ever said
No we can’t move with the wind
All the holes in our sail
That we can’t mend
There’s no easy way to put this
I’m leaving though I shouldn’t
Trying to pack my bags with you looking
You make it harder, I wish you wouldn’t
At some point it became inevitable
We keep running down a path where we stumble and fall
Oh I, oh I can’t seem to let you go
There’s no easy way to put this…
Lay you down against a hundred roses
It always leads down the same road
Where both of us fall apart
All the stars and constellations
Misaligned for our oasis, I guess
Yeah, I guess
No we can’t make the sun shine
In the middle of the night
Where our love won’t grow
There’s no easy way to put this (hey)
I’m leaving though I shouldn’t
Trying to pack my bags with you looking
You make it harder, I wish you wouldn’t (oh)
At some point it became inevitable
We keep running down a path where we stumble and fall
Oh I, oh I can’t seem to let you go
Still something in the way that you’re looking at me
How I love to pretend that I couldn’t see
Oh I, oh I don’t know how to let you go
There’s no easy way to put this…
There’s no easy way to put this…
There’s no easy way to put this
I’m leaving though I shouldn’t
Trying to pack my bags with you looking
You make it harder, I wish you wouldn’t (oh)
At some point it became inevitable
We keep running down a path where we stumble and fall
Oh I, oh I can’t seem to let you go
Still something in the way that you’re looking at me
How I love to pretend that I couldn’t see
Oh I, oh I don’t know how to let you go
There’s no easy way to put this
