You Gave Me Everything Except You

[Verse 1] The heat was always on There was always food I never wore the same shoes Two years in a row You left before I woke You came home after dark I'd hear you in the kitchen Getting ready to go again I knew what you were doing I knew it was for me I just didn't know how to live Inside a balance sheet [Pre-Chorus] I don't have a single memory Of you sitting still I have a house I have a coat I have a hole that no one filled [Chorus] You gave me everything except you Every bill paid Every roof held Every sacrifice I never asked you for You gave me everything except The one thing I was hungry for I wasn't cold I wasn't hungry I wasn't what you thought you fixed You gave me everything except you And I don't know how to say That wasn't it [Verse 2] I showed you my report card You said that's what you're supposed to do I told you I got second chair You said what about first I'm not saying you were cruel I'm saying you were fluent In a language I couldn't speak And I stood there at the door Every night Trying to translate [Pre-Chorus] I don't have a single memory Of you asking what I dreamed I have a college fund I have a car I have a question no one heard [Chorus] You gave me everything except you Every bill paid Every roof held Every sacrifice I never asked you for You gave me everything except The one thing I was hungry for I wasn't cold I wasn't hungry I wasn't what you thought you fixed You gave me everything except you And I don't know how to say That wasn't it [Bridge] I think you were doing What was done to you I think you were saying The only thing you knew how to say I think somewhere in the ledger You believed it added up I think you loved me With everything you had And what you had Wasn't enough And what you had Wasn't enough And I loved you While it wasn't enough [Breakdown] You fixed everything that could be fixed with money You fixed everything that could be fixed with time You fixed everything that could be fixed with showing up You could not fix What you could not name [Chorus] You gave me everything except you Every bill paid Every roof held Every sacrifice I never asked you for You gave me everything except The one thing I was hungry for I wasn't cold I wasn't hungry I wasn't what you thought you fixed You gave me everything except you And I don't know how to say That wasn't it [Outro] I know you loved me I know you loved me I know I just needed you To stay For one more minute And ask me Something Anything I would have told you everything