[Verse 1]
I keep rehearsing futures
That I know don’t exist.
You knock, I open,
We don’t talk about all of this.
Funny how my heart
Still writes endings my mind erased.
I hate that it still saves you
A little bit of space.
[Pre-Chorus]
Everybody thinks I’d say yes.
They don’t know what yes would cost.
[Chorus]
I wish you’d love me back.
I wish that was enough.
But you don’t glue a broken window
Just by saying you were sorry for the rock.
I’d need the phone calls,
The honesty, the fight.
I’d need you choosing me
When nobody’s watching at night.
I wish you’d love me back.
God… I really do.
But loving me would only be
The first thing you’d have to prove.
[Verse 2]
I still wonder what it’d feel like
To hear you say, “I was wrong.”
Not because I’m keeping score,
Just because I’ve waited so long.
I’d want the version of you
That never made me question me.
Not the one who loved me later
When it was convenient to see.
[Bridge]
And that’s the cruelest part…
If you called tonight,
My heart would answer first.
My head would make it wait.
[Final Chorus]
I wish you’d love me back.
I wish it fixed the ache.
But love doesn’t erase the damage,
It just decides if it’s worth the work to make.
So if you ever came back,
Don’t come back just because you miss me.
Come back because you’ve become
Someone who’d never risk me.
Until then,
I’ll keep missing the man
I always hoped you could be.