Bleeding at Your Feet

[Verse 1]
I saw you drowning in the silence
You never asked me to dive in
Still I jumped with my heart open
I was screaming underwater
You couldn’t hear me anymore
[Pre-Chorus]
I kept saying “it’s fine”
While my heart learned to lie
I smiled through the breaking
So you wouldn’t see me cry
[Chorus]
I thought I could save you
I thought you could save me
I wanted you to love me
I needed you to need me
[Verse 2]
I wrote you a thousand letters
You never wanted to read
You just threw them all aside
I still taste your silence
On the edge of my tongue
[Pre-Chorus]
If you asked me to
I’d cut out my beating heart
And give it to you
Just to see you hold it once
As I watch me die
[Chorus]
I thought I could save you
I thought you could save me
I wanted you to love me
I needed you to need me
[Bridge]
Now my mind is full of echoes
Of love that you never gave
I’m still bleeding at your feet
For love you’ll never give
I would’ve died a thousand times
For you to hold my bleeding heart
[Final Chorus – half-whispered, slowing to almost nothing]
I thought I could save you…
I thought you could save me…
I wanted you to love me…
I needed you to need me…
[Outro – single line, voice cracking on the last word]
You see him in the stars
I always saw you
I still see you
But you never even saw me…

Intimate piano ballad with fragile whispered, vocals and soft synth layers, raw aching, one sided yearning, male