The Missing Ten

Verse 1

I gave you mornings, gave you nights

Every wrong I tried to make right

Learned your silence, read your eyes

Held you steady through the fights

I was there when no one stayed

Built a life in every way

But somewhere in the in-between

You started drifting out of me

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Pre-Chorus

I felt it slipping through my hands

Like I was everything but what you planned

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Chorus

I was ninety percent of everything you needed

But you chased the ten I couldn’t be

Thought the grass was greener on the other side

Now you’re staring back at me

Too late to say you didn’t know

Too late to fix what you let go

Yeah I was almost everything

But you left for the missing ten

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Verse 2

He had something I don’t got

Or maybe just what I am not

Something new, something wild

Something easy for a while

But easy fades and truth cuts deep

And what we had don’t come cheap

Now you’re standing in the wreck

Of something you can’t get back

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Pre-Chorus

Now you see it crystal clear

But clarity don’t change what’s here

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Chorus

I was ninety percent of everything you needed

But you chased the ten I couldn’t be

Thought the grass was greener on the other side

Now you’re staring back at me

Too late to say you didn’t know

Too late to fix what you let go

Yeah I was almost everything

But you left for the missing ten

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Bridge (soft, reflective)

It’s funny how the heart learns pain

When it’s the one that walked away

You had it all within your hands

But traded gold for grains of sand

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Final Chorus (bigger, more emotional)

I was ninety percent of everything you needed

And I gave you all of me

But you chased a feeling you don’t even feel now

And lost what we could be

Now you’re calling, saying my name

But nothing here is left the same

Yeah I was almost everything

But you left for the missing ten