Intro: verse 1 The hand is cold that once held mine I can't believe you've really left this world behind I can wait and I can hope I'll get over this in time It takes time to learn when someone's gone for good They're not coming back like you wish they would In the empty hours when you miss them so Then it's time to learn to let them go verse 2 Your last hours I never knew I never had a chance to say goodbye to you Words unsaid, things undone We'd just begun and now we'll never see them through 'Cause it takes time to learn when someone's gone for good They're not coming back like you wish they would In the empty hours when you miss them so Then it's time to learn to let them go And it takes time to learn when someone's gone for good They're not coming back like you wish they would In the empty hours when we miss them so Then it's time to learn to let them go