My version of love

[Chorus]
When I told you that I loved you,  it was the only love I knew, i never realized what i was giving was the simplest version of love.
Babe, I want to tell you this from the bottom of my heart, that I am sorry that my vision of love was one-sided,  that I was so used to average bs that I called love and the reality maybe I set us up for failure. These broken hearts that we both are feeling could have avoided if only if I had listened more and paid attention to the rules of what real  love consisted of.
When I told you that I loved you,  it was the only love I knew, i never realized what i was giving was the simplest version of love.
I will be the first to tell you, I have my faults, I didn't take my time to understand who you were, you told me  your rules, we shared all of our darkest of secrets, we were both broken and carried a burdens of not being loved as a child, we shared the abuses of life, we shared tears of the sadness through the years, but we still made it out the storm right into each arms
When I told you that I loved you,  it was the only love I knew, i never realized what i was giving was the simplest version of iit
Now, we are here. Even the version of love I knew is gone. We no longer share a home. We no longer talk on the phone. I no longer can call you my own. All because I tried to change you, I tried to make you someone that you weren't,  I wanted to love you the way I wanted to and not the way you needed, I didn't put your needs over mind, I tried to love the way I love and I am realizing it was never going work just my way and that one way love is the wrong way.
When I told you that I loved you,  it was the only love I knew, i never realized what i was giving was the simplest version of it.
So, in the  we are both heartbroken, just for different reasons, and I know that I didn't love you correctly, and because of that, you stopped loving me and it all because I didn't respect and love you right
[Final Chorus]
When I told you that I loved you,  it was the only love I knew, i never realized what i was giving was the simplest version of it. My version of love!

 R&B