# WHAT YOU THINK I NEED TO HEAR **Verse 1** There’ve been so many stories I don’t know what to **believe**, So many little truths that only surfaced when you’d **leave**, So many times I trusted what you needed me to **see**, I learned the person closest to you knows exactly how to **deceive**. Now every explanation has another one **behind**, Every missing piece just finds another piece to **find**, I used to think your words and your intentions were **aligned**, Now I hear “I love you” and start reading between every **line**. **Pre-Chorus** And somehow you still reach for what once made me feel **safe**, As if the right words somehow put the broken things in **place**, But you don’t hear the history when those words leave your **face**, You’re trying to hold me with the language that destroyed my **faith**. **Chorus** You say you’re doing this for **us**, And all I hear is broken **trust**, You say you’re fighting for our **home**, And I have never felt more **alone**. You say you want our family **here**, Like those are words I need to **hear**, But every promise pulls me near To everything I fucking **fear**. The thing you think will make me **stay** Is tearing something else **away**. You think you’re saying what I need— You’re killing me with what I used to **believe**. **Verse 2** You say, “I’m trying,” like I never begged you then to **try**, You say, “I choose us,” after giving me a thousand reasons **why**, You say, “our family,” and something in me quietly **dies**, Because I wanted that before I ever had to question all the **lies**. I wanted boring Sundays, little feet across the **floor**, Pictures on the refrigerator, keys beside the **door**, A life where loving somebody didn’t feel like keeping **score**, You’re offering me everything I begged you to protect **before**. **Pre-Chorus** So when you tell me now that you’ll do anything to make this **right**, I remember begging for those words through every sleepless **night**, You finally turned around when I had nothing left to **fight**, And somehow getting what I wanted doesn’t feel like winning **tonight**. **Chorus** You say you’re doing this for **us**, And all I hear is broken **trust**, You say you’re fighting for our **home**, And I have never felt more **alone**. You say you want our family **here**, Like those are words I need to **hear**, But every promise pulls me near To everything I fucking **fear**. The thing you think will make me **stay** Is tearing something else **away**. You think you’re saying what I need— You’re killing me with what I used to **believe**. **Bridge** That’s what hurts. You’re finally saying everything I spent so long wanting you to **say**, But you waited till those words became The things that take my breath **away**. You’re finally fighting for the things I fought alone to keep **alive**, And now you’re asking me to trust the hands I barely fucking **survived**. Don’t say you did it for our **home**, When home was where I felt **alone**. Don’t say you did it out of **love**, When love was all I ever **gave**. Don’t tell me this is “for our **family**” Like family makes betrayal disappear. Because you still don’t understand— **That is the part that hurts to hear.** **Breakdown** “For us...” I would’ve died for **us**. “Our family...” That used to be enough. “I’m changing...” I begged you to **change**. “I love you...” So why does love sound so fucking **strange**? You’re finally giving me the words I needed all those years— But they got here too late. And now they sound like **fear**. **Final Chorus** You say you’re doing this for **us**, And all I hear is broken **trust**, You say you’re fighting for our **home**, And I have never felt more **alone**. You say you want our family **here**, And God, I wish that brought me **near**, But every word I prayed to hear Has somehow turned into my **fear**. The thing you think will make me **stay** Might be the thing that drives me **away**. Because every word you swear is true Just sounds like what I once believed from **you**. **Outro** Maybe that’s the cruelest part— You’re saying all the right things now. They’re just coming from the person who taught me not to believe them.
