I want someone who will listen When I speak too soft to hear Someone who won’t make me smaller When I let them come near I want someone with a quiet heart Not afraid of what I hide Someone who can sit in darkness And still stay by my side I want someone who believes me When I say I’m not okay Someone who won’t turn my weakness Into something they can blame I want hands that do not tremble When they touch the worst of me Someone who won’t need a reason Just to let my soul be free That is what I long for That is what I need Not a perfect kind of heaven Just a place where I can breathe That is what I long for Someone warm and true Someone who can see the damage And still want me too I want someone who will hold me But not hold me like a cage Someone who can read the silence On the saddest-looking page I want someone who won’t worship Some imagined part of me But the tired and awkward person That I’m frightened they might see That is what I long for That is what I need Not a perfect kind of heaven Just a place where I can breathe That is what I long for Someone warm and true Someone who can see the damage And still want me too And maybe I ask too much Maybe I dream too clean Maybe love is just a mirror For the child I’ve never been But still I keep on hoping With my foolish open hands For a love that doesn’t vanish When it starts to understand That is what I long for That is what I need Not a saint and not a saviour Just a heart that doesn’t leave But when I’m sober, it all just feels like shit
