Small doses

I wish you knew how hard I try

To keep it all locked up inside

If I could measure what I feel

Maybe this would hurt less, feel more real

I’d break it down in small doses

So I don’t fall all at once

Save it for the longer days

When everything weighs too much

Pre-Chorus

Some days you don’t deserve a drop

Not even love that comes in soft

But my heart never learns the truth

It keeps on running back to you

Chorus

I take love in small doses

Just to see if I can stand

Stretching moments into years

With a bottle in my hand

I know the side effects are mine

I know the fall comes after the high

But in the end, the choice is mine

Yeah, I’m the one who takes the dose

Verse 2

I drink things I can’t explain

Is it faith or is it pain?

Trying to fit in seconds flat

What never fit in years like that

Time moves crooked, slow then fast

Every promise never lasts

I say this time it’s the last one

But my heart still wants one more

Pre-Chorus

I know exactly what it costs

I see the edge, I see the loss

Still I step a little closer

Pour it out and pull me under

Chorus

I take love in small doses

Just to see if I can stand

Mixing hope with a little fear

Trying not to break again

I know the side effects are mine

I know the fall comes after the high

But in the end, the choice is mine

Yeah, I’m the one who takes the dose

Bridge

Maybe love was never meant to heal

Maybe it’s just meant to feel

Even knowing how it ends

I still choose it in the end

Final Chorus (soft / repeatable)

I take love in small doses

Slow enough to stay alive

If it’s poison or devotion

Let it work me through the night

‘Cause in the end, the truth I chose is

With this bottle in my hand

I’m the one who takes the dose

I’m the one who takes the stand