She Deserves Better 1

Verse 1 I let you bleed me slowly Called it love so I could stay Watched you break me with a straight face Then kneel and ask me not to walk away You wore guilt like cheap religion Spoke in tears, not in truth Every promise had an expiration Every lie got born in you Verse 2 I kept opening up the door Like pain might finally make you change But betrayal was your native language And blame was always quick to take my name You could burn the whole house down Then swear you felt the heat too But remorse without repentance Is just another lie dressed up for view Pre-Chorus And I am sick of calling this a wound When really, it’s a choice you make Over and over You don’t slip You decide to break Chorus Now there’s a little girl between us Soft as mercy, pure as light And if you still can’t tell the truth Then you will poison everything in sight If you can’t own the wreckage If you can’t crawl down in the dirt And face the blood on your own hands Instead of acting like you’re hurt Then you are not just broken You are danger in a smile And that little girl deserves better Than your chaos dressed as trial Verse 3 You want forgiveness without change A clean slate you never earned You want grace without the burning Without the lesson being learned But I have watched you choose destruction While pretending you were lost No, you knew exactly what you were doing You just never cared what it cost Pre-Chorus And I could survive you hurting me I’ve done it more times than I can say But I will not stand here quiet While you teach her love decays Chorus Now there’s a little girl between us Soft as mercy, pure as light And if you still can’t tell the truth Then you will poison everything in sight If you can’t own the wreckage If you can’t finally break this curse Then every step you refuse to take Is proof that you are something worse Than selfish, weak, or careless You’re a storm that never learns And that little girl deserves better Than the fire where her future burns Bridge She deserves a mother or a father Who won’t make truth beg on its knees Who won’t trade trust for one more moment Of appetite, escape, disease She deserves the kind of safety That your pride has never been And if you cannot become that person Then don’t pretend you love her then Breakdown Because love protects Love grows up Love admits when it has sinned Love does not keep stabbing hearts Then cry because it has to end Final Chorus Now there’s a little girl between us And I swear by every scar I will not let your unowned darkness Teach her that this is what people are If you can’t stand in brutal truth If you can’t repent and do things right Then you’re the monster under innocence The shadow standing in her light And she deserves better than your lies Better than your endless curse Better than a parent who won’t change She deserves better She deserves better And for once in your life Put her first