Thats it

Verse 1

I don’t need your arms around me

I’ve seen what happens when they shake

I don’t need you saying “promise”

I’ve watched forever fade away

I don’t need a place to run to

I learned to lock my door alone

I don’t need love to prove I’m breathing

I’ve felt the ache inside my bones

Pre-Chorus

Some wounds don’t want a reason

They just want space to heal

Chorus

I don’t need to be loved

I just need to stay the same

I don’t want a heart that opens

Then gets scared and walks away

If your love needs me smaller

Needs me quiet, needs me less

I don’t need to be loved

I just need to feel whole

Yeah, I guess

Verse 2

I don’t need you watching closely

Like you’re counting every flaw

I don’t need the word “forever”

From someone halfway out the door

I’ve been held like I was temporary

Like I’d vanish by the dawn

Every “stay” was said too softly

Every light was almost on

Pre-Chorus

I believe in how it starts

I just don’t trust the end

Chorus

I don’t need to be loved

I just need to stay the same

I don’t want a heart that opens

Then gets scared and walks away

If your love needs me smaller

Needs me quiet, needs me less

I don’t need to be loved

I just need to feel whole

Yeah, I guess

Love never asks about the nights

You lay awake just trying to breathe

It doesn’t see the mess inside

The parts you never let them see

And if loving me feels heavy

If it cracks your perfect life

Don’t call your fear a calling

And leave me behind

Break

I didn’t stop believing in love

I just stopped letting it lie

Final Chorus

I don’t need to be loved

I need to stay intact

I don’t want a heart that opens

Just to ask for pieces back

If your love needs me smaller

Needs me quiet, needs me less

I don’t need to be loved

I just need to be myself

Yeah, myself

Outro

I don’t need to be loved

I just need to feel whole.

And thats it.