Cry Just Enough to Stay

Verse 1 I stitched your name into my prayers Even while you tore me down Covered your lies with my mercy While you dragged my heart through the ground Every time I caught you slippin’ You’d cry just enough to stay I kept mistaking broken sorrow For someone willing to change Pre-Chorus But sorry without truth is poison Tears don’t mean a thing When the same knife keeps on falling And you still won’t own a thing Chorus I forgave you past the point Where love should’ve let me go Took your damage like a vow Held the pieces no one knows But now there’s a little girl With your eyes and heaven’s light And if you can’t face what you’ve done Can’t choose wrong from right If you’d rather protect your pride Than her heart, her soul, her world Then you’re becoming something cruel And she deserves better Yeah, she deserves better Verse 2 You break trust like it’s nothing Like it grows back overnight Like words can raise the dead again After you kill peace every night No accountability, just shadows No courage, no clean hands Just another blame-shifted story And me trying to understand Pre-Chorus But love can’t raise a child on chaos It can’t bloom where truth won’t live And a home built out of secrets Ain’t a home no matter what you give Chorus I forgave you past the point Where love should’ve let me go Took your damage like a vow Held the pieces no one knows But now there’s a little girl With your eyes and heaven’s light And if you can’t face what you’ve done Can’t choose wrong from right If you’d rather protect your pride Than her heart, her soul, her world Then you’re becoming something cruel And she deserves better God, she deserves better Bridge She didn’t ask for your confusion She didn’t ask for all this shame She didn’t come here to be wounded By the fire you won’t name You can keep lying to the mirror You can keep running from yourself But if you can’t become a safe place Then don’t call that love for her Breakdown I could take the cuts you gave me I could wear the scars in silence But I will not let your weakness Teach her this is what love is Final Chorus I forgave you till forgiveness Started feeling like a grave Where I buried every standard Every truth I tried to save But now there’s a little girl And she’s innocent and new And if you can’t own every shadow And become somebody true If you can’t learn, if you can’t change If you can’t put her future first Then you are the storm she’ll fear And she deserves better She deserves better More than your excuses More than this curse She deserves a truthful love She deserves better first