Higher Standard

You said you held me

To some higher place

Like I was carved in stone

Never meant to break

Every crack you saw in me

You turned into proof

While your late-night secrets

Were hanging in the room

You were out past midnight

Phone flipped face down

I was home forgiving

Things I never found

You said I broke your higher standard

But you were cutting where you said you'd heal

You put your fears into my jacket

Wore my name for what you chose to feel

I took your lies and I called them human

You took my bruises

Carved them into blame

I forgave you for the ways you vanished

You never did the same

You called me a stranger

Sleeping in our bed

Swore I was hiding

What you hid instead

All your guilty stories

You wrapped them in my skin

Made me play the villain

In a play I didn't live in

I kept every promise

You kept every doubt

You walked out the front door

Still locking me out

You said I broke your higher standard

But you were cutting where you said you'd heal

You put your fears into my jacket

Wore my name for what you chose to feel

I took your lies and I called them human

You took my bruises

Carved them into blame

I forgave you for the ways you vanished

You never did the same

I still reach for you

In a dark

Half-sleep (oh)

Talking to the ceiling

'Cause you won't talk to me

If grace is a circle

I'm standing in the rain

Throwing you umbrellas

While you just walk away

You said I broke your higher standard

Like you were standing somewhere I can't reach

You laid your shadows on my shoulders

Called me every name you couldn't see