[MALE MODERN COUNTRY LOVE SONG] [NATURAL WARM VOCAL] [INTIMATE VERSES → BIG OPEN CHORUS] [REAL INSTRUMENTS] [NO FORCED COUNTRY ACCENT] [Intro — acoustic guitar] I don't wanna be the walls around you. I wanna be the window open wide. [Verse 1] You don't need me to hold the whole world still, or have the answers when neither of us will. You can have your dreams, I'll have mine too, and somewhere in the middle I'll keep finding you. I wanna know the woman you become when nobody's telling you who you oughta be. And if you're gonna love me— baby, love me free. [Pre-Chorus] 'Cause I don't need your every minute to know your heart is in it. [Chorus] Give me a love with room to breathe, room to run, room to dream. Room for your heart to still be yours, and mine to love you even more. I don't wanna hold you down, I wanna hold you close. Know when to reach for you, know when to let go. If we're gonna build forever, give it roots and give it wings. Give me you. I'll give you me. And give this love some room to breathe. [ACOUSTIC/ELECTRIC GUITAR TURN] [Verse 2] Leave your shoes wherever they land, steal my side of the bed again. Take the last cup of coffee, change your mind at nine, tell me you need an hour that's completely yours tonight. I'll be somewhere making too much noise, you'll tell me turn it down, I'll probably turn it up. [beat] Then halfway through the hallway you'll smile and I'll know enough. [Pre-Chorus] We don't have to get it perfect. Just make enough room to make it worth it. [Chorus] Give me a love with room to breathe, room to laugh, room to dream. Room for your heart to still be yours, and mine to love you even more. I don't wanna hold you down, I wanna hold you close. Know when to reach for you, know when to let go. If we're gonna build forever, give it roots and give it wings. Give me you. I'll give you me. And give this love some room to breathe. [Bridge — band drops to acoustic + pedal steel] And when the years put lines around our eyes, when we've changed a hundred times— I hope I still look over and see a woman who's free to be herself still choosing me. [brief silence] And I hope you see that in me. [BAND LIFTS] [Final Chorus] Give me a love with room to breathe, room to change, room to believe. Room for two whole hearts to grow and still have somewhere they call home. I don't wanna hold you down, I wanna hold you close. Be the arms you run into, not the hands that won't let go. If we're lucky enough to get forever, I don't need everything. Just give me you. I'll give you me. And give this love— [half-beat] room to breathe. [FINAL OPEN GUITAR LIFT] [Outro — low, intimate] Come here. [beat] You can breathe right here.
