EVERYTHING, AND STILL

I gave you one last chance to let me go—you couldn’t

I gave you my heart to rest inside—you wouldn’t

I gave you my whole life to live alongside yours

You took the offer and still kept coming back for more

I gave you a final answer—walk away, be free

But even that you wouldn’t take

Unless it cost me

I gave you the past, the present, and whatever comes next

And all you left me with was the wreckage and the debt

I gave you the past, the present, and whatever comes next

And all you left me with was the wreckage

And I have no choice but to accept

You’re like the world—all taking, never giving back

You’re like the world—I always knew that, and still I gave

I wrote the opening line and swore I’d never write the end

I said whatever shape this takes, I’ll find a way to bend

But then I looked and found you only see yourself in every mirror

And I finally understood—I was never going to reach her

So the ending wrote itself without me in the room

And I became just one more name

In a list of people you consumed

I gave you the past, the present, and whatever comes next

And all you left me with was the wreckage and the debt

I gave you the past, the present, and whatever comes next

And all you left me with was the wreckage

And I have no choice but to accept

You’re like the world—all taking, never giving back

You’re like the world—I always knew that, and still I gave

I gave you the best years I had

All I got back was the hardest kind of sad

I kept asking what more I could sacrifice

But you just kept raising the price

All I ever wanted was to see you satisfied

Turns out loving you was the biggest mistake of my life

I know what you are

You take like the world takes

Without asking

Without noticing

Without stopping

I gave you everything

The past, the present

Whatever was left of the future…

And I have no choice

No choice

But to accept