From the recording My Life in Words and Music Reimagined Edition
The Cost of Being Loved (Female Solo Version)
This heartfelt female solo interpretation explores the bittersweet truth that every deep connection comes with a price. Love enriches our lives in countless ways, but when someone is gone, the memories they leave behind become both a comfort and a reminder of the cost of being loved.
Lyrics
The Cost of Being Loved
Verse 1
There’s a chair that sits quiet by the window
Morning light falls where you used to be
The silence speaks a language of its own now
And every room still echoes memories
Pre-Chorus
I hold the laughter in my hands
Like photographs that never fade
Chorus
Grief, the cost of being loved
A debt the heart must learn to pay
Does it outweigh the memories?
Never — not a single day
But it is a fight
Through every lonely night
Still I’d live it all again
For the chance to love you then
Verse 2
Time moves on but it walks a little slower
Carrying the stories that we made
Every scar reminds me that I knew you
Every tear proves love will never fade
Pre-Chorus
Somewhere in the quiet dark
Your voice still finds its way to me
Chorus
Grief, the cost of being loved
A debt the heart must learn to pay
Does it outweigh the memories?
Never — not a single day
But it is a fight
Through every lonely night
Still I’d live it all again
For the chance to love you then
Bridge
If pain is proof that love was real
Then I will carry it with pride
Because a heart that never breaks
Is one that never opened wide
Final Chorus
Grief, the cost of being loved
A heavy crown the soul must wear
Does it outweigh the memories?
Never — they are always there
And though it’s a fight
Through shadows and through light
I would choose the hurt again
Just to love you once again
Outro
Grief… the cost of being loved
And love… is always worth the pain