Thinking ain’t loving

Verse 1

You’d sit there turning every word

Like it held some deeper truth

Like love was just a puzzle piece

You had to overuse

You’d talk in circles late at night

‘Bout what it all might mean

But meaning don’t amount to much

When you don’t do a thing

Verse 2

You said you needed time to think

Like thinking made it real

But all your thoughts just built a wall

Between you and how you feel

You’d analyze me like a book

You never meant to read

Just flipping pages back and forth

While I was trying to be seen

Chorus

You kept thinking, thinking, thinking

While I was standing still

You were busy in your head

I was waiting on your will

But thinking ain’t loving

And it sure ain’t choosing me

You can drown in all your reasons

But that ain’t where I’ll be

Verse 3

There was always something in the way

Some problem you could name

A house, a past, a heavy mind

But it all led to the same

You’d say you cared, you’d say it mattered

Then you’d pull yourself apart

Like loving me was something

You had to overthink to start

Chorus

You kept thinking, thinking, thinking

Like it made you deep and true

But all that contemplation

Just kept me losing you

Yeah, thinking ain’t loving

And it don’t make you a man

If you can’t step out your head

And just reach out your hand

Bridge

Maybe you’ll sit with it someday

Turn it over, break it down

Find the moment that you lost me

While you were looking around

Outro

But I ain’t something you can figure out

Or circle back to when you’re through

You can keep your endless questions—

I was never one for you to solve