Damaged, But You Stayed

I’m tangled up in shadows deep as the sea

The ghosts from my past won’t set me free

You look at me like I’m still worth the fight

But I’m lost in the war between shadow and light

You see the hope where I see the pain

You steady the wheel while I call the rain

I don’t know how you hold on so tight

To this wreck of a man trapped in the night

I fold my hands just to break them apart

Every apology feels like a false start

I clutch at redemption but it slips away

Yet you wait for me at the break of day

I can feel the chains of the place I’m from

Their grip too tight

The damage done

Still you pour love where my soul bleeds through

Even when I can’t appreciate you

You see the hope where I see the pain

You steady the wheel while I call the rain

I don’t know how you hold on so tight

To this wreck of a man trapped in the night

So here I stand with my broken groove

For all that I’ve lost

For all I can’t prove

You put up with me

You hold the key

To the better man I can barely see