I said I could love you whole But I never was You tried to fit inside my silence I just gave applause You looked for light in pieces That never saw the day You held me through the darkness But I pushed you away You called it home I called it storm You built us slow I stayed torn You loved the half of me That smiled through the ache The version I designed So you wouldn’t break You wrote me letters I read them blind Too scared to see What I’d never find But love’s not a cure When it’s not complete And I couldn’t give you More than half of me You waited at the edges Of what I couldn’t show I kissed you with a distance I didn’t even know You saw me as a future I only knew as fear You made room for all of me But I never got near You offered roots I gave disguise You wanted truth I answered why You loved the half of me That smiled through the ache The version I designed So you wouldn’t break You wrote me letters I read them blind Too scared to see What I’d never find But love’s not a cure When it’s not complete And I couldn’t give you More than half of me If I could go back I’d bring the parts I buried But I only had fragments And you deserved steady You loved the half of me That smiled through the ache The version I designed So you wouldn’t break You wrote me letters I read them blind Too scared to see What I’d never find And maybe someday I’ll learn to be But you deserved more Than half of me
