Gave My Heart Away

[Verse 1]
You walked in like mid-September
Cold air
But you felt like June
Coffee cup on my chipped old counter
You laughed
Said
“God
I love this room”
I sold my pride just to keep you talking
Called in sick
Skipped every plan
Watched my friends all fade to the background
Just to hold your trembling hands
[Chorus]
I gave my heart away
Every last piece of it
Tore down my walls
Let you
Move in and sleep in it
You took the best of me
Left me the empty ache
I burned my world for you
You watched it fall and turned away
I gave my heart away
[Verse 2]
I learned your storms
Your silent treatments
Stayed up late to calm your ghosts
Drove all night through red-eyed darkness
Just to see you on that coast
I missed my dad’s last birthday dinner
’Cause you said you “couldn’t breathe”
Funny how when I started drowning
You were already planning to leave
[Chorus]
I gave my heart away
Every last piece of it
Tore down my walls
Let you
Move in and sleep in it
You took the best of me
Left me the empty ache
I burned my world for you
You watched it fall and turned away
I gave my heart away
[Bridge]
You said
“Love means losing something” (losing something)
Guess you meant I’d lose it all
My sleep
My time
My sense of meaning
Every picture on my wall
Now your box sits by the doorway
Just a name on my cracked phone
I built a church around your shadow
Now I’m praying here alone (yeah)
[Chorus]
I gave my heart away
Every last piece of it
Tore down my walls
Let you
Move in and sleep in it
You took the best of me
Left me the empty ache
I burned my world for you
You watched it fall and walked away
I gave my heart away
[Outro]
So take your ghosts and all your memories
I’ll keep this scar
The price I paid
You got my love like it was nothing
But I remember what I gave
(I gave my heart away)

rock, Arena-sized rock ballad with male vocals; clean guitar arpeggios and warm piano in the verses, then a huge wall of distorted guitars and crashing drums on the chorus. Vocal starts intimate and cracks into a soaring roar on the hook, with stacked harmonies and a screaming lead guitar answering the vocal lines. Final chorus climbs a key step for maximum heartbreak and release, then cuts to a lone vocal-and-piano tag., ballad, raw