You called it love

“You Called It Love”

Verse 1

You walked in carrying promises

Like a man who knew my broken places

Took my babies by the hand

Said forever like you meant it then

Built a house from borrowed dreams

While I stitched together every seam

I gave you loyalty so deep

I forgot to save some love for me

Pre-Chorus

Every time I bent for you

You moved the line a little more

And I kept believing sacrifice

Was what a good woman was for

Chorus

But you called it love

When you pushed past every boundary

Called it passion when you shattered me quietly

I gave unconditional

You gave conditions back

Turned devotion into something I lacked

Twenty-six years of holding the weight

Of a man who confused control with fate

And I wore bruises no one could see

While you called it love

But it never felt like love to me

Verse 2

We lost a baby in the silence

And I carried grief like holy violence

Then our little girl came shining through

A heartbeat trying to heal what you put me through

I stayed because I believed in home

Believed no one should survive alone

But survival ain’t the same as living

And love ain’t pain that keeps on taking

Pre-Chorus

You took my softness for surrender

My forgiveness for permission

And every piece of me I offered

Became another line you crossed

Chorus

Yeah you called it love

When you pushed past every boundary

Called it loyalty while slowly drowning me

I gave unconditional

You kept moving the track

Till I disappeared trying to love you back

Twenty-six years of learning too late

That fear and love don’t share the same space

And I won’t carry your version of me

Cause what you called love

Was never really love to me

Bridge

Now I stand in the ashes of the woman I was

And I swear she deserved better

Than begging to be chosen

By someone who only loved

How much she could endure

Final Chorus

So don’t call it love

If it feeds on someone’s silence

If it leaves their spirit fighting just to find them

Love don’t erase you

Love don’t make you small

Love doesn’t demand your soul at all

And after twenty-six hard years

I can finally hear the truth through tears

I was loyal… I was strong… I was enough all along

And what you called love

Was survival wrapped in a wedding song.