You Don’t Get to Break Her

Verse 1

She said your name like sunlight

Like maybe this time would be right

I watched her count the days

Like every hour could erase

Everything you left behind

Every silence, every night

And I believed it too

Because she smiled when she talked about you

Pre-Chorus

So tell me what was all that for?

Why come back just to find the door

And leave her standing there again

Trying not to call it pain?

Chorus

You don’t get to break her

Then walk away clean

You don’t get to make her

Believe in what could have been

You don’t get to leave her

Holding all your weight

And call it your decision

Like she should just be okay

You never did a thing to me

So why can’t I let this be?

Why do I want to scream your name?

Why does her hurt feel like my rage?

Verse 2

She says, “It’s complicated”

Like that makes it hurt less

Like love can somehow justify

Cleaning up your mess

And I don’t understand it

How she can still defend you

How she can say she misses you

After what you put her through

Pre-Chorus

I want to tell her, “Let him go”

I want to make the answer simple

But she looks at me and says

“You don’t get to choose that for me”

Chorus

You don’t get to break her

Then walk away clean

You don’t get to make her

Believe in what could have been

You don’t get to leave her

Holding all your weight

And call it your decision

Like she should just be okay

You never did a thing to me

So why can’t I let this be?

Why do I want to scream your name?

Why does her hurt feel like my rage?

Bridge

I thought protecting meant

Standing in the way

Keeping every sharp thing

Far enough away

I thought loving someone meant

I had to make it right

But maybe I can’t fight her battles

Maybe I just stay tonight

And I hate that I can’t fix it

I hate that you can leave

I hate that she still loves you

I hate that I believe

Some part of her will wait for you

Every time a door swings wide

And I hate you most because

I know she’ll hope

Before she remembers why she cried

Final Chorus

You don’t get to break her

And make me watch her fall

You don’t get to come back

If coming back means nothing at all

You don’t get to leave her

And still live in her heart

But maybe loving someone

Doesn’t mean tearing you apart

You never did a thing to me

And now I finally understand

I’m angry because I love her

And I can’t protect her from this pain

So I won’t chase you down

I won’t decide what she should do

I’ll just stay here beside her

While she’s learning to lose you

Outro

You left.

I stayed.

Maybe that’s what love

Was asking me to do.