I Gave You Everything

I learned how to smile with a heavy chest

Kept all the truth I never said

Every night I replay your goodbye

Like a wound that won't rest

You were a dream I reached too late

I gave you everything I couldn't save

You never heard my breaking heart

It cried your name in the dark

I held the match I felt the burn

But you never turned

I stood there open bare and brave

You walked away from all I gave

I built a life out of almosts and maybes

Out of love that you couldn't face

Every street still knows your absence

Every mirror knows my pain

I wrote my truth into my skin

Praying someday you'd read it in

But by the time you see me clear

I'll be a memory not here

You never heard my breaking heart

It cried your name in the dark

I held the match I felt the burn

But you never turned

I stood there open bare and brave

You walked away from all I gave

If love was louder would you stay?

If I fell harder would it change?

I bled my soul between the lines

You read me once then closed your eyes

So I let go not out of strength

But I've run out of ways to beg

Your name still trembles when I breathe

But I'm learning how to leave