I knew I couldn’t love you… …but I stayed anyway… You kissed me like you didn’t feel it anymore I noticed… but I still kept wanting more You said I’m fine, I heard what you meant Love shouldn’t feel like something set in stone I started changing just to keep you close Losing myself in things you never noticed If I became what you needed me to be Maybe you wouldn’t leave I saw you trying to fix what I broke Every I love you getting hard to hold You looked at me like I was still your home But I… already felt gone I didn’t run, I didn’t lie outright I just let it fade instead of picking a fight And that’s the truth I hate the most I stayed, and let you hope I felt you slipping every night I couldn’t tell you, didn’t know how to fight I begged for truth without a sound I let you build on breaking ground I knew you didn’t love me, but I stayed anyway Held onto silence like it still had something to say Watched you disappear a little more each day And I still chose to stay I knew I couldn’t love you, but I stayed anyway And that’s the part we can’t erase, We both knew, and stayed Do you know what it feels like to beg without words To sit in silence and still feel unheard I read the ending in the way you paused my name And still, I asked you to stay I traced the distance in everything you did In every pause, in every little slip But I convinced myself love wouldn’t break If I just gave it more to take I hated myself every time that you tried ‘Cause I could see it still in your eyes You gave me more than I gave to you And I knew it, I always knew I thought staying would soften the fall But I was just dragging it out for us both If I could go back, I’d tell you the truth Instead of letting it go numb between us both Why didn’t you just tell me Because it would’ve broken you It broke me anyway Just slower…
