[Intro] You say you’re trying… I know you are. But baby, let me tell you what it feels like from where I stand. [Verse 1] You say you’re trying to understand me, but sometimes you only hear the words. When I get quiet, you think I'm leaving, when I'm really scared of getting hurt. I know you weren't taught how to say the things a heart needs to hear. And I know you carry your own battles, even when you hide them from me. I've been standing behind every wall you've built between us over time, waiting for you to let me see you instead of making me guess why. You say you reach for me and miss, but baby, I'm reaching too. We're both searching for the same love from opposite sides of the room. [Pre-Chorus] I don't need you to know everything. I don't need overnight change. I just need you to stop pulling away when I finally let you see my pain. If you're scared, then tell me. If you're hurting, let me know. I can handle the truth between us. I just can't keep loving through a closed door. [Chorus] I'm trying too… You're not the only one who's scared. I'm trying too… Even when it feels like you're not there. You say you don't know how to love me, but I don't need perfect words. I need something real to hold onto when everything between us hurts. I don't want to fight you. I don't want to watch you fall. I just want us to stop keeping score and start listening through it all. [Verse 2] Then you pull me close on those nights, and suddenly everything feels right. Your hand finds mine beneath the porch light, and the whole world fades from sight. Two glasses sitting on the railing, fireflies drifting through the dark. You make me laugh at something silly, and somehow you get past my guard. I'll steal your jacket when it's colder. You'll tease me like you always do. I'll rest my head against your shoulder and remember why I chose you. We don't need a perfect picture. We don't need some grand design. Give me quiet nights and honest mornings, and your hand reaching back for mine. [Pre-Chorus 2] So when I tell you that I'm hurting, please don't hear it as an attack. I'm not trying to make you guilty. I'm trying to find my way back. When I say I need you closer, I don't mean you have to fix me. I just need to know when things get heavy, you won't disappear on me. [Chorus] I'm trying too… Even when I don't know what to say. I'm trying too… Even when I want to run away. I've made mistakes along the way too. I've said things I wish I'd never said. Maybe love isn't finding who's right; maybe it's choosing us instead. [Bridge] You say, “I'm trying.” Then let me try with you. Don't make me chase you every time your walls go up. Don't make me wonder if you're coming back. If you stumble, I'll reach for you. If I stumble, reach for me. That's all I'm asking. [Breakdown] I don't want to be the woman you almost loved. I don't want to be the one you miss after I'm gone. I want to be here. But I need you here too. Not only when the night is easy, not only when we're holding hands. I need you when it's uncomfortable. That's where your trying has to show. [Final Chorus] I'm trying too… So maybe we're not too far gone. I'm trying too… Maybe we can still find our way home. You don't have to become somebody else. I don't need you to erase your past. Give me the real you, and I'll give you the real me back. If we have to learn, we'll learn together. If healing takes time, we'll take it day by day. I can't promise it will always be easy, but I promise I'll tell you when I'm hurting. And if you promise not to run, I'll promise not to hide. [ Outro] So stay right here… Let the porch light burn. Let the night get quiet. Let tomorrow wait its turn. Put your hand in mine. No perfect promises. No pretending we can't break. Just two hearts that have been hurt, still finding reasons to stay, still learning how to love without running away. You said you're trying… Maybe that's all I needed to hear. Because I'm trying too. Maybe that's what we were missing not perfect love, not a life without mistakes, just two people willing to keep choosing each other.
