If you wanted me to pay, I did
For every way I hurt you then
You walked away, I watched you go
Spent ten years trying to let you go
I thought you moved on, thought you were fine
While I was trying to rebuild my life
Then I learned what you went through
All those years, you were hurting too
[Chorus]
I paid a thousand times over
Trying like hell to get over you
A thousand nights wishing I could
A thousand times thinking I finally would
One heart broke when you walked away
Two hearts hurt in different ways
Ten years later, we finally broke through
The pain I blamed
Led me back to you
[Verse 2]
We built two lives, we chose two roads
Did everything to let us go
But losing me still hurt you too
And losing you still cut me through
That’s when it finally became clear
We didn’t hurt because love disappeared
We spent ten years trying to move on
Just to learn it was still this strong
[Chorus]
We hurt a thousand times over
Trying like hell to get over each other
A thousand nights wishing we could
A thousand times thinking we finally would
One heart broke, then two hearts bled
But neither one could forget the other
Ten years later, we finally broke through
The pain that broke us
Brought me back to you
[Bridge]
I thought the pain meant let you go
You were learning what I already know
If ten years couldn’t make it disappear
Maybe losing us made everything clear
We tried so hard to leave love behind
But the harder we ran, the more we’d find
The pain wasn’t saying we should be through
It was showing me how much I loved you
[Final Chorus]
We hurt a thousand times over
And never got over each other
Ten years apart just made it clear
Why losing us hurt all those years
One heart broke, then two hearts bled
Now a third heart beats instead
Ten years later, we finally broke through
The pain that broke us
Brought me back to you
[Outro]
A thousand times over
We tried to let go
It took us ten years
To finally know.