[Verse 1] You always mean to call me but the evening gets away, you tell me that you're sorry like sorry changes anything. You speak with such conviction when you don't know what to say, and I watch you search for answers while the silence fills the space. You never meant to hurt me, I believe you when you say it, but meaning well is not enough when you're the one who breaks it. [Pre-Chorus] And I know you try, I know you do, but trying isn't always the same as getting through. You reach for me then pull away, you want to stay but don't know how to stay. [Chorus] Oh, incompetent guy, you don't know how to love me right. You get so close, then you get it wrong, I've been waiting here for far too long. Oh, incompetent guy, you mean well, but you never get it right. You hold my heart like it's something you can't see you love me, but you don't know how to love me. [Verse 2] You make promises in earnest, then forget them by the morning. Not because you don't believe them, but because you don't see the warning. You think that if you're honest you've already done your part, but honesty without tenderness can still leave a scar. And when I finally tell you that I'm tired of being strong, you look at me like I've become someone you don't know. [Pre-Chorus] I know you try, I know you do, but there's a difference between wanting and knowing what to do. You reach for me then hesitate, you want my love but you don't know how to make it safe. [Chorus] Oh, incompetent guy, you don't know how to love me right. You get so close, then you get it wrong, I've been waiting here for far too long. Oh, incompetent guy, you mean well, but you never get it right. You hold my heart like it's something you can't see you love me, but you don't know how to love me. [Post-Chorus] You love me. I know you do. You just don't know what love asks of you. You love me. I know you do. But wanting me is not the same as knowing what to do. [Bridge] Maybe somebody should have told you that love isn't just a feeling. It's staying when it's difficult, it's listening when you're hurting, it's noticing the distance before someone has to leave. I know your heart is somewhere in there. I have felt it underneath everything. But a heart can be sincere and still be careless. And I can't keep calling that enough. [Breakdown intimate] Oh, incompetent guy... I don't need perfect. I never needed perfect. I needed you to hear me. I needed you to see me. I needed you to stay. [Final Chorus] Oh, incompetent guy, you don't know how to love me right. You get so close, then you get it wrong, I've been waiting here for far too long. Oh, incompetent guy, you mean well, but you never get it right. You hold my heart like it's something you can't see you love me, but you don't know how to love me. [Final Chorus expanded] Oh, incompetent guy, I loved you more than I should have. I saw the man you wanted to be and waited for him to show up. You held me close but never learned to hear me. You said you'd change, but change was always somewhere near you. Oh, incompetent guy, I don't hate you. That's the hardest part. You're not a villain in my story. You're just the man who couldn't reach my heart. [Outro quiet, unresolved] You love me. I know you do. You just don't know how to love me. And maybe one day you'll understand I wasn't asking you to be perfect. I was asking you to be there. Oh, incompetent guy... You don't know how to love me right.
