[Verse 1]
We were fine in the daytime
When nothing asked too much
You were easy to be around
You were easy to love
But the nights would change you
When you tried to numb your past
I kept hoping I’d be enough
And you’d be happy at last
[Pre-Chorus]
I told myself it was nothing
Just another phase
But some things don’t get better
They just wear you away
[Chorus]
It shouldn’t matter but it does
That I was never enough
I stayed up waiting for your love
While you were giving up
I tried to hold us together
While you were coming undone
I thought you were the one
[Verse 2]
I knew the sound of your breathing
When you couldn’t sleep
I knew the look in your eyes
When you’d disappear from me
I kept saying “tomorrow”
Like it still had a chance
But tomorrow kept showing me
What we didn’t have
[Pre-Chorus]
I learned the hard kind of loving
That doesn’t get returned
Some lessons come easy
This one had to burn
[Chorus]
It shouldn’t matter but it does
That I wanted you to stay
That I needed you sober
In every quiet way
I tried to love you through it
Tried to save what I could
But loving you meant losing me
[Bridge (strip the drums)]
The nights were long and restless
I barely slept at all
I kept replaying every word
Like it might stop the fall
I don’t hate you, I don’t blame you
I just finally see
I can’t be what you need
If you can’t be here with me
[Final Chorus]
It shouldn’t matter but it does
That I still wish you well
That I hope you found your way back
From wherever you fell
I loved you and got nothing back
And that’s the truth I know
I didn’t stop loving you
I just had to let you go
[Outro (space, half-time feel)]
Because of you
I found myself
ChristianHenning
