The man beneath the wreckage

Verse 1

I loved the man beneath the wreckage,

The one the world forgot to see.

But loving you with everything I had

Couldn’t teach you how to breathe.

Every promise found its way back home,

Until the silence wore your name.

I reached for hands already slipping,

While addiction called your name.

Pre-Chorus

I couldn’t compete

With a hunger that never slept.

I couldn’t hold on

To someone you hadn’t found yet.

Chorus

I wasn’t losing you to another woman.

I wasn’t losing you to another dream.

I was losing you to a room inside your mind

Where love couldn’t follow.

I waited outside every locked door,

Praying hope would be enough.

But some roads only open

When a heart decides to trust.

Love couldn’t follow…

Only you could.

Verse 2

Prison built walls,

But addiction built the first ones.

Steel bars never frightened me,

It was the invisible cage that won.

I stopped asking where you were,

And started asking where you’d gone.

The man I knew was still inside you,

But he couldn’t find his way back home.

Bridge

I saw your soul

Long before you could.

I believed in tomorrow

Long after I should.

If love alone could heal a broken spirit,

You’d be standing here with me.

But healing isn’t something given.

It’s something only you can choose to be.

Final Chorus

I wasn’t losing you to another woman.

I wasn’t losing you to another dream.

I was losing you to a room inside your mind

Where love couldn’t follow.

So I’ll leave the light on in my memory,

Not because I’m waiting anymore,

But because I loved the man beneath the wreckage…

And I hope he finds the door.