I Thought You Meant It

**Verse I**

I treated your words like shelter

Like something that would hold

I learned too late they were only

Warm until I got too close

I called it love when you disappeared

Called it patience when you stayed away

I kept lowering my voice

Hoping you’d hear me someday

**Pre-Chorus**

I asked for honesty

You gave me time

And I waited

Until I ran out

**Chorus**

I thought you meant it

Every time you said my name

I thought the quiet was kindness

Not you slowly pulling away

I gave you my heart carefully

Like it was fragile, like it was true

I didn’t know I was giving it

To someone already halfway through

**Verse II**

You loved me best when I asked for nothing

When I didn’t need to be held

I learned how to be easy

So I wouldn’t be someone else to fail

I made excuses for the distance

Called it space, called it growth

I kept standing in the doorway

Waiting for you to come home

**Pre-Chorus**

Say you didn’t notice

Say you were trying

But you saw me fading

And let it happen

**Chorus**

I thought you meant it

When you said “just stay”

I thought the silence was temporary

Not you choosing to walk away

I gave you everything gently

Like love was something to prove

I didn’t know I was breaking myself

Just to be easier to lose

**Bridge (soft, resigned)**

If this was love

It shouldn’t feel like this

If I was important

You wouldn’t miss

Me hurting

Me waiting

Me needing more

**Final Chorus (full but fragile)**

I thought you meant it

I thought I mattered somehow

I thought if I loved you correctly

You wouldn’t leave me now

I gave you my whole heart slowly

Piece by piece, until there was none

I didn’t lose you in a moment

I lost myself one quiet one

**Outro**

I don’t hate you

I just wish

You hadn’t let me believe.

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