“Hard To Hold”

🎵 Hook (autotuned, soft but strained)

I ain't broken, I'm just hard to hold (yeah)

Got some pain I ain't ever told (nah)

You could love me, but it feel too close

Every hug pull a memory I ghost

I don’t mean to push you back when you care (I don't)

But love got claws and it caught me there

Tried to give you what I never got

But I’m built from loss and a padlock heart

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I don’t trust the warmth — it don’t last long

Got hugged by lies with a good-guy song

Kissed by betrayal in silk sheets

Now love look like pain in a heart beat

I flinch at “forever,” pause on “stay”

'Cause I seen heaven turn ghosts in a day

You see a man, I see a wound in jeans

Tryna hide my hurt in a love routine

I don’t mean to freeze when it’s good

But I come from a place where love ain’t stood

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🔊 Ad-Libs – Verse 1:

“Still healing.” / “I warned you.” / “Facts.” / “Don’t leave tho…”

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🎵 Hook (repeat, background harmony builds)

I ain't broken, I'm just hard to hold

Got some pain I ain't ever told

You could love me, but it feel too close

Every hug pull a memory I ghost

I don’t mean to push you back when you care

But love got claws and it caught me there

Tried to give you what I never got

But I’m built from loss and a padlock heart

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You say “let me in,” I freeze at the door

I’ve been loved before... in a tug-of-war

She said she loved me, then dipped with my peace

Now “I love you” sound like a thief

I be tryna grow but my soil cracked

You plant love here — it might not come back

But if you patient with a storm like me

You might find warmth where the cold still breathe

Don’t chase perfection — I got none

But if you real, I won’t run

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🔊 Ad-Libs – Verse 2:

“Don’t give up.” / “Hard truth.” / “Scars talk.” / “I’m tryin’ tho.”

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🎧 Outro – reverb, solo guitar plucks

(Spoken)

I ain’t afraid of love…

I’m afraid it’s gon’ feel like her again.