Yeah, & I think that's—

That's what love is

Like that decision

Like when things are hard

Who am I, that I would push back?

Is that the loving thing?

You made a bed for me to lie in;

You know I’m trying

See, good men, they never look back

And that’s a salty sting

You paved a road for me to walk on

Yet I am not gone

I’m combing through the clover for a four-leaf

Check my pockets over & over

Hoping you’d be calling for me

I would take a maybe or a sure thing;

Check my pockets over & over & over—

It’s like I told you, baby

Not one thing that you said

Was ever just a wasted breath;

It’s living in, living in my head

And making a home

In places that you lit my hope

I’ve never been, never been so close

To move a man like a chess piece

(Play ‘em)

That’s not the loving thing

(Not love)

While I am bold enough to go there

It goes nowhere

(Nowhere)

‘Cause I wanna tell you when we next meet—

(When we)

I mean, God willing—

(Can we?)

That I prayed only for your profit

No matter what the cost to me is

Madison, she knows just how to hold me;

She would let me stay here for longer

But she knows I’ve got to go free

She’s the kind of lover that my soul needs

Daylight’s getting lower & lower & lower…

Wish I could show you, baby

Not one thing that you said

Was ever just a wasted breath;

It’s living in, living in my head

And making a home

In places that you lit my hope

I’ve never been, never been so close

To coming correct

I know that you were heaven-sent;

You’re living in, living in an

Echelon of your own

Could anybody match your glow?

I’ve never been so close

I’ve never been…

So close

When we

Can we?

There's like this richness, though

That I mean, I can't, I can't testify with experience

Because I'm not old

But there's a richness that I perceive to be present in older relationships

Because of this, like, persistence

And this, like, I'm deciding to love you everyday

No matter how I feel about you

Because I told you I would

(I told you I would)

Going all those years and still deciding to be with this person every—

You're making the concentrated choice to do that, like

Man, that's prime

I feel like that's prime

Well, that's the place to get to, right there