If You Won’t

Verse 1

I wore my heart out on my sleeve again tonight

Held out my hands like I was asking for a sign

Spoke in the silence, but you never heard the sound

I was drowning right beside you, going down

You saw the shadows underneath my tired eyes

You heard the tremble, but you turned and let it die

I gave you pieces I was trying hard to save

But you stood there like a stranger at my grave

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Pre-Chorus

And I can’t keep breaking open

For someone who won’t even see

That I’m bleeding in the daylight

Begging just to be believed

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Chorus

If you won’t take a second,

If you won’t hold my name,

If you won’t try to love me

Through the hurt I cannot say,

Then someone else will find me

Where my soul has fallen through,

And if all the world denies me,

Heaven knows just what to do.

If you won’t care to know me,

If you won’t stay when I’m undone,

Then I’ll find another mercy,

Even if it comes from above.

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Verse 2

I was not asking for a crown or for a throne

Just for a refuge when the dark was in my bones

Just for a heartbeat that would listen when I cracked

But every time I reached for warmth, you pulled it back

And I have carried all this weight with shaking knees

Still somehow hoping you might finally fight for me

But I’m so tired of setting fires in my chest

Just to watch you stand there cold and call it rest

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Pre-Chorus

No, I can’t keep dying slowly

For a love that never moves

I was made for something deeper

Than being half-seen by you

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Chorus

If you won’t take a second,

If you won’t hold my name,

If you won’t try to love me

Through the hurt I cannot say,

Then someone else will find me

Where my soul has fallen through,

And if all the world denies me,

Heaven knows just what to do.

If you won’t care to know me,

If you won’t stay when I’m undone,

Then I’ll find another mercy,

Even if it comes from above.

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Bridge

I begged at your doorway

With storms in my chest

You looked through the broken

And still gave me less

But I know a Father

Who gathers the dust

Who lifts what is shattered

And still calls it loved

So if your hands won’t reach me

When I’m too weak to stand

I know the scarred hands of mercy

Will still come take mine again

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Final Chorus

If you won’t take a second,

If you won’t hold my name,

If you won’t try to love me

Through the tears I cannot frame,

Then someone else will find me

Where my soul has come undone,

And if every door is closing,

I still know I’ve got Someone.

If you won’t care to know me,

If you won’t see what I’ve become,

Then I’ll find another love there,

Even if the last hope comes from above.

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Outro

So leave me in the silence

If silence is your way

But I won’t die abandoned

Not while Heaven knows my pain