I thought I knew love Or something close A few warm nights And a ghost of hope Somebody’s laughter In a borrowed bed But it never stayed When the morning bled I called it love ‘Cause I didn’t know What else to name Something that comes and goes Just passing through Like a change in the sky Never once Did it make me feel alive I was fine, I said That’s just how it goes Some men get fire Some men get smoke So I wore that truth Like a second skin Kept my heart shut tight Let no one in Then you sat down Like you’d always knew Like the world hadn’t already Been too hard on you You didn’t reach You didn’t try Just stayed right there And let the silence lie And something broke But it wasn’t pain It was all those years I’d been standing in rain ‘Cause your hand in mine Didn’t burn or rush It just felt like home In a quiet hush And God… that’s when I knew All those years weren’t love Just something I got used to All those nights All those lies I told About being fine About growing old I was wrong Yeah, I see it now Love don’t leave Love don’t break you down It stays Even when you’re hard to hold Even when the night runs cold And I ain’t grateful Not like I should be ‘Cause it hurts too much What it says ‘bout me That I lived this long Half-alive, half-true Never knowing love Till I found you Yeah… I lived this long Just passing through Never knowing love Till I found you
