Wicked Wenches - When I Stopped Holding On | 80s FM Rock / AOR / Adult Contemporary / Soft Rock

💔🌧️ When I Stopped Holding On is a raw late-70s-inspired Soft Rock / FM Rock ballad about realizing how exhausting love becomes when only one person is still fighting to keep it alive. Weathered resonator guitar, bottleneck slide, brushed drums, warm Hammond organ, melodic bass and powerful raspy female vocals create an intimate Country Rock / Adult Contemporary heartbreak song filled with loneliness, resignation and hard-earned release. “I thought losing you would kill me. That's the lie I lived upon.” A song about one-sided love, emotional loneliness, letting go and discovering what remains when you finally stop carrying a relationship for two. For listeners who love Soft Rock, FM Rock, Adult Contemporary and Country Rock in the spirit of Heart, Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Tyler and Melissa Etheridge. 🌧️❤️ 🌹❤️‍🔥 #SoftRock #FMRock #powerballads #AdultContemporary #WickedWenches 🎧 Listen to Wicked Wenches on Spotify, Apple Music & more: 👉 https://linktr.ee/Wicked_Wenches 🎸 More 80s/90s inspired Power Ballads & Rock: 👉    • 80s Rock / 80s Hard Rock / Glam Metal/ Are...   🔥 More Hard Rock & Glam Rock: 👉    • Wicked Wenches   ⚔️ Discover 80s Sound Clash: 👉    / @80ssoundclash   ☕ Support my work: 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/moxley ⚠️ This track was crafted with AI-assisted tools under human creative direction. Lyrics : Funny thing about us... When I stopped holding on, Nothing held us together. You didn't even notice Till I was gone. I was always making reasons For the things you never did. Turning silence into patience, Calling distance tenderness. Every time you left me hanging, I would find some thread to mend. I got so good at saving us... I never asked Who I was saving it from. Then one night I let the telephone Ring until it stopped. And nothing happened. Nothing broke. Nothing changed at all. When I stopped holding on, We fell apart so easily. Like I was the only pair of hands Keeping you and me from leaving. I thought losing you would kill me. That's the lie I lived upon. The hardest part was learning... There was nothing left to lose When I stopped holding on. I used to wait beside the window, Though I knew your car wouldn't come. Leave your side of dinner waiting Till the whole damn thing went cold. I'd rehearse what I would tell you, Then forgive you at the door. Love shouldn't need one person... To keep breathing For them both. I kept thinking if I loved enough, You'd meet me halfway there. But halfway doesn't matter... When nobody else Is walking. When I stopped holding on, We fell apart so easily. Like I was the only pair of hands Keeping you and me from leaving. I thought losing you would kill me. That's the lie I lived upon. The hardest part was learning... There was nothing left to lose When I stopped holding on. I don't hate you for not loving me The way I needed you to. I hate how long I called it love... Because I needed that To be true. Maybe heartbreak isn't losing Someone you can't live without. Maybe sometimes it's discovering... You were lonely With them around. When I stopped holding on, I thought I'd fall apart with you. But the ground beneath my feet stayed still When I finally let us through. I thought losing you would kill me. Look at me... I'm moving on. Maybe I wasn't losing love... Maybe I'd been carrying it All along. Funny thing about us... When I stopped holding on, Nothing held us together. So I let go. © Black Cat Studio / Wicked Wenches. Music, lyrics and artwork are protected by copyright. For licensing or project inquiries: blackcatstudio09@gmail.com