[Verse 1]
You said you weren’t ready, I heard “give me time.”
You said you were broken, I thought, “I’ll help you find…”
A little bit of hope, a little bit of light,
Didn’t know I was just getting you through the night.
You talked about forever like it might exist,
Held my hand just enough to keep me convinced.
While I was planting roots, building us a home,
You were only looking for somewhere not to feel alone.
[Pre-Chorus]
Now every missing piece finally fits together.
I just wish the picture didn’t hurt forever.
[Chorus]
How did I fall so hard
For somebody who only needed a Band-Aid heart?
You didn’t want forever, you just wanted relief.
I mistook your survival for believing in me.
I was medicine, not love.
A place to land until enough…
Till you could breathe again, then walk away free.
How did I never see
You were healing from her… not falling for me?
[Verse 2]
Now I hear your guilt when you talk about the past.
How the other girls still haunt you after all this time has passed.
You’ll say their names with regret in your voice,
Like carrying that weight was never really a choice.
But when it comes to me, it’s silence in the room.
Like somehow all the damage disappeared with me too.
I gave you every piece while you buried every scar,
Now I get to watch you mourn everybody but my heart.
[Bridge]
Maybe I was never chapter two.
Maybe I was just the page that got you through.
The stitches, the gauze, the temporary fix.
You thanked the medicine, never questioned who it is.
Funny how the one who stayed,
Is the one that gets erased.
[Final Chorus]
How did I fall so hard
For somebody who only needed a Band-Aid heart?
I would’ve loved you through the healing and the fight.
You just needed someone there to make it through the night.
Now every memory cuts differently.
Because what was forever to me…
Was just recovery.
You found your footing while I lost mine completely.
Guess I was enough to help you stand…
Just never enough
To make you stay with me.
