I Can’t Make You Choose Me
(Verse 1)You said you weren’t readyFor a love like mine right nowAnd I smiled like I understood itBut the truth hit later somehow
’Cause words like that are gentleThey land soft but cut deepLike someone laying rosesOn a dream they couldn’t keep
(Pre-Chorus)And I tried to be patientTried to stay and play it coolBut the heart ain’t built for silenceAnd love can make a wise man look like a fool
(Chorus)I can’t keep living halfwayBetween hope and letting goOne day you pull me closerNext day I’m alone
B. Drew your face a thousand waysBut no matter how much I loved youI couldn’t make your heart turn my way
(Verse 2)“Rain on Tin” came from lonely nightsMissing you more than sleep“Friends Before Lovers” was the hopeThat maybe you’d choose me
Then “Fools Rush In” spilled out of meThe night your words sank throughAnd “I Can’t Love You Halfway”Was me surviving loving you
(Pre-Chorus)Maybe that was your wayOf trying not to hurt meSaying you weren’t readyWhen you didn’t see forever in meLike I already saw in you
(Chorus)I can’t keep living halfwayBetween what’s real and what I hopeTrying to read the silenceBetween the words you never spoke
And maybe that’s the hardest truthA man will ever knowSometimes one heart sees foreverWhile the other lets it go
(Bridge)And I swear I felt you love meIn moments you let slipIn the way your hand would hold mineOr the tremble in your lips
But every time we crossed that lineSomething pulled you back againSo I’ve been stuck between your heartAnd the fear that lives within
(Final Chorus)So I can’t stay suspendedBetween someday and goodbyeWaiting for a feelingYou just can’t force inside
But if these songs ever find youSome lonely midnight throughI hope you hear my whole heartIn every word I wrote for you
(Outro)Maybe it’s not mine to understandJust mine to live through
Just know that my heartWill always live with you
