**[Intro]** Yeah... I gave you everything I had. Maybe that was the problem. I kept giving... You kept taking. **[Verse 1]** I gave you my heart, you gave me reasons to doubt it, Gave you all of my trust, you found a way around it, Gave you every little part of myself I could offer, You gave me empty apologies and called it an answer. I was there when you needed me, where were you when I needed you? I was fighting for forever, you were fighting to keep leaving me, I kept making excuses for the things you would do, Just to keep from admitting I was losing you. I learned your favorite colors, your fears and your habits, You learned how to hurt me and somehow became practiced, I knew every scar that you carried inside, You knew exactly where to aim when you wanted me crying. And I hate that I still miss you, that's the hardest confession, Because love doesn't disappear just because you learned the lesson, I can know that you were wrong and still wish that you were here, That's the fucked-up contradiction that nobody tells you about. **[Pre-Hook]** I gave you love... You gave me doubt... I kept reaching in... You kept shutting me out. **[Hook]** I can love you, But you can't love me back, I can give you everything, You still won't give me that. I can hold you, While you're slipping through my hands, I kept trying to save us, You kept letting us collapse. I can love you... But you can't love me back. **[Verse 2]** I was over-invested, emotionally indebted, Every message dissected, every silence felt excessive, Had me questioning intentions, second-guessing every sentence, Trying to find the missing piece inside a broken connection. I became too dependent on a love that wasn't balanced, You became too accustomed to me fixing every damage, I was carrying the weight while you were calling it baggage, Then you wondered why I changed when I couldn't fucking manage. I don't blame you for the person that you chose to become, But I blame myself for staying when the damage was done, I confused being needed with somebody needing my love, Confused surviving together with believing we were one. That's the difference between loving somebody and losing yourself, Between giving somebody everything and having nothing left, Between saying "I can fix it" and accepting the truth, Sometimes love isn't broken... Sometimes love just isn't mutual. **[Pre-Hook]** I gave you love... You gave me doubt... I kept reaching in... You kept shutting me out. **[Hook]** I can love you, But you can't love me back, I can give you everything, You still won't give me that. I can hold you, While you're slipping through my hands, I kept trying to save us, You kept letting us collapse. I can love you... But you can't love me back. **[Bridge]** And that's okay... I finally understand. I can't force your heart to beat the way mine does. I can't love enough for both of us. **[Final Verse]** So I'm letting go without pretending I don't care, Without rewriting every memory like you were never there, You were real, what we had was real, even if it couldn't last, I don't have to hate the future just because I miss the past. I hope somebody loves you in the ways that I couldn't, I hope somebody hears the things I never understood when you said them, And I hope someday I can remember us without pain, Without wondering if I should've stayed and tried again. Because I tried. God knows I tried. I gave you every version of me I could find, Gave you my patience, my trust, my time, Gave you my heart when it barely survived, And somehow I still couldn't make you mine. That's when I finally understood the truth... Love isn't measured by how much you sacrifice. Sometimes you can give somebody everything... And they still can't love you back. **[Final Hook]** I can love you, But you can't love me back, I can give you everything, You still won't give me that. I can hold you, While you're slipping through my hands, I kept trying to save us, You kept letting us collapse. I can love you... But you can't love me back. **[Outro]** I don't hate you. I just finally stopped begging for something you couldn't give. And that's okay. I loved you. You just couldn't love me back.
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