I Love Hard

Intro

Oh-oh, oh-oh, uh-huh

(yeah) Ah, ah, ah

Verse

I set the table for two though you never sat down

Left the light on in the hallway when you left town

I learned the map to your silences, traced every line

Spoke in long apologies, kept you on my mind

I kept your jacket on my chair like it was still warm

Called your name in an empty house, kept breaking the dawn

Gave you sunrise promises and midnight alibis

You gave me polite goodbyes and practiced little lies

Pre-chorus

I fill the cracks with every truth I own (I own)

You turn around like I was never home (never home)

Hands that build you up, hands that wear the blame (wear the blame)

I pour the gasoline and you walk through the flame (walk through the flame)

Chorus

I love hard, I fall hard, I let myself combust (let myself, let myself)

I love wild, I love loud, and you love like you must

I love more, I lose more, I give until there's none

I love hard, I love hard, and still you come undone

I love hard, I fall hard, I let myself combust (let myself, let myself)

I love wild, I love loud, and you love like you must

I love more, I lose more, I give until there's none

I love hard, I love hard, and still you come undone (oh-oh)

Verse

You keep the receipts for every little favor owed

Measure out your kindness in the corners of your phone

I read your thoughtful lines like they were constellations

But you keep the good parts locked behind reservations

I memorize the ways you like to be treated kind

I build a home of patience in the attic of my mind

You move in like a season, then you pack up like a plan

Say "thanks for caring," like I'm someone else's hand

Pre-chorus

I stack my brave up against your small returns (small returns)

I learn the quiet hurt that patience always learns (always learns)

My arms are open wide but you keep passing through (passing through)

I give you rich and you give me used (you give me used)

Chorus

I love hard, I fall hard, I let myself combust (let myself, let myself)

I love wild, I love loud, and you love like you must

I love more, I lose more, I give until there's none

I love hard, I love hard, and still you come undone

I love hard, I fall hard, I let myself combust (let myself, let myself)

I love wild, I love loud, and you love like you must

I love more, I lose more, I give until there's none

I love hard, I love hard, and still you come undone (oh-oh, oh-oh)

Bridge

I tried to teach you how to stay (stay) — you taught me how to bend (bend)

I tried to make our hands the same — you kept a careful end (careful end)

Maybe love for you is something soft, measured, small, and thin

But I don't do gentle in a whisper; I crash in with the wind (crash, crash)

Oh, I'm full of shout and open wounds (open wounds), I'm a rolling, reckless tune (reckless tune)

If loving me is hard, then baby I'll keep dancing through (I'll keep dancing through)

Chorus

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