Just a Guy

Verse 1

I used to read between your lines

Like there was something there to find

A hidden reason, some old scar

Something that made you who you are

I gave your silence better names

Called distance fear, called coldness pain

I built excuses out of air

So I could keep you somewhere rare

Pre-Chorus

Maybe I wanted depth so badly

I painted oceans where there weren’t any

Chorus

I thought you were complicated

Turns out you were just cruel

I kept rewriting every warning

Just to make a better you

I called your absence hesitation

I called your selfishness confused

God, I gave you so much meaning

When you gave me nothing true

You weren’t broken

You weren’t scared

You just liked knowing I was there

And suddenly I see it right

You’re not a mystery

You’re just a guy

Verse 2

I memorized your little shifts

The almost-love, the almost-kiss

The way you’d pull me close enough

Then act like none of it was much

And every time I almost knew

I found another way for you

To still be someone worth the ache

Someone I hadn’t misread this way

Pre-Chorus

I thought your chaos meant you felt more

Now I don’t know what I was waiting for

Chorus

I thought you were complicated

Turns out you were just cruel

I kept rewriting every warning

Just to make a better you

I called your absence hesitation

I called your selfishness confused

God, I gave you so much meaning

When you gave me nothing true

You weren’t broken

You weren’t scared

You just liked knowing I was there

And suddenly I see it right

You’re not a mystery

You’re just a guy

Bridge

There’s something almost worse in this

No secret wound, no hidden twist

No grand reason I failed to see

No tragic truth explaining me

Just little choices

One by one

And me pretending they meant more

Maybe that’s the hardest part

There was no deeper door

Final Chorus

I thought you were complicated

Now you’re painfully clear

I mistook your indecision

For some battle with your fear

I gave poetry to your silence

Made a tragedy of you

Turned every half-hearted gesture

Into something deep and true

But now I’m standing in the quiet

With nothing left to rearrange

And I don’t know what hurts me more

You

Or how much I explained

You weren’t lost

You weren’t torn

Maybe I just needed you to be more

And now that all the stories die

You’re not a mystery

You’re just a guy

Outro

Just a guy

I made too large inside my mind

Just a guy

And I was the one drawing the lines

Just a guy

And now I see you

For the first time