[Intro – Instrumental] [Verse 1] You gave me all your love Heart and mind and soul Nothing held back from the start And it overwhelmed my heart [Verse 2] Your love was selfless, unconditional I saw not you, but fantasy You longed to build a quiet home I longed for us to fly, and be free [Verse 3] You were a woman, I a boy Not in age, but maturity I heard you speak your truth to me Through tears I could not see [Verse 4] I loved you more than life itself As much as I could give But not enough beyond myself To love as you loved me [Chorus] I loved you more than life But not more than myself I should have loved you more Or learned to let you go [Verse 5] I heard you—but I didn’t see The pain beneath your words I should have listened with my heart Not only what I heard [Verse 6] I would have died for you back then I'd die for you right now And yet I broke your quiet hope I just don’t know quite how [Chorus] I loved you more than life But not more than myself I should have loved you more Or learned to let you go [Verse 7] I should have loved you more than me Or set your spirit free But I held on too blindly To what I wished to be [Bridge – sparse, emotional, slower phrasing] [Verse 8] I planted love in fertile ground Mistook your tears for rain And what we grew was something wild That only brought us pain [Verse 9] Our orchard stands in ruin now Overgrown with my neglect The fault is mine, the shame is mine And this I can’t correct [Final Chorus – fuller, more intensity] I loved you more than life But not more than myself I should have loved you more Or learned to let you go [Verse 10] I’ll love you every day I breathe And after breath is gone But love alone could not repair The harm that I have done [Outro – breathy, stripped down] So we go on from day to day With tears we cannot hide And live within the quiet truth Of what we both let die
