Everything You Ever Wanted

[Verse 1 - Male]
You said the words like reading lines
Eyes on the floor, hand in mine
"I don't really love you"
But you still swore it every night
I built a life from busted paychecks
Turned your wish list into real decks
You got the world you circled
I just got more cigarettes
[Chorus - Male]
I gave you everything you ever wanted, Sarah
Every little dream you circled in red
Put the whole damn future on my shoulders
You laid the truth beside my bed
You told me you didn't truly love me
Then you said it anyway
I gave you everything you ever wanted, Sarah
You gave me almost and halfway
[Verse 2 - Female]
You kept on pulling every string
Bought me a house, locked in a ring
Thought if you loved loud enough
You could make my heart sing
I tried to feel it, tried to fake
Smiled at the pictures we would take
Kissed you in that truck cab
With both feet on the brake (oh)
[Pre-Chorus - Duet]
You heard "I'm sorry" as a challenge
I meant it as a warning flare
You were all in, I was a shadow
But you still found someone there
[Chorus - Duet]
You gave me everything I ever wanted, Sarah
(you say my name like a prayer)
Every little dream I never could speak
But I was always halfway leaning out the window
Counting days instead of counting weeks
I told you I didn't truly love you
You kept loving me anyway
You gave me everything I ever wanted, Sarah
I gave you almost and halfway
[Bridge - Duet]
Now your boxes in the hallway
My note on the kitchen chair
You’re cursing me in that cracked mirror
I'm staring at a girl who wasn't there
Maybe there’s a world where we fit right
Where the truth came sooner, soft and bright
But in this one it’s a dark road
Two tail-lights, two goodbyes
[Chorus - Duet]
You gave me everything I ever wanted, Sarah
And I broke it in my trembling hands
You built a castle on my maybe
On shifting, sinking sand
You told me that you didn’t truly love me
But I heard, "I’ll change someday"
You gave me everything you ever wanted, Sarah
We lost it all in the halfway
[Outro - Male]
Everything you ever wanted, Sarah
[Female]
Everything you couldn’t make me say (mm)
[Duet]
You gave it all, I gave you halfway

rock, Smoky dark country-rock ballad, male and female vocals trading verses. Fingerpicked electric and dusty acoustic guitars over a slow, swinging groove; low toms and roomy snare. Verses stay close and intimate, chorus widens with soaring harmony and overdriven slide guitar. Final chorus adds stacked ad-libs and a held guitar bend that slowly fades., ballad, country rock