I need you

Oh I needed you

You were my everything

I was your nothing just a pain in your heart and I

Tried everything to be all you had

I had nothing left to give nothing

You were my everything

You asked me to shrink down

Be in your shirt pocket. Never leave your side

I guess I took that to heart

I shrank till there was nothing left but my demons 

Now I wish I could say that was more of a metaphor

Was it ever that hard to love

That you had to leave

Yes it was better 

But what about forever

Didn't we take some time

So that I'd better learn

You said you don't hate me

But I'm not the man that you thought you made me

I gave you all

You gave me normal

I was the problem

You were the soldier

I was the war

You fought the battle

But the enemy is always the one who loses

Maybe your faith ain't in the right place

Or the lack thereof it

Oh this burning town full of fragments of the dreams you never really had

Maybe I'm leaving the house that we built and the dreams of little faces we'd make

Cause I got the match but you set aflame to the basement the structure and the panic

And this cave shall rot without you

But the mold will turn new life

And soon the flowers and the trees 

Will burn in fires of their own

And the animals will scream into the night

As the grass will warm their feet

New life is born out of hell

And dreams are born from pain

I gave you all

You gave me normal

You were the problem

That's just such bull

If it were fine

We would be normal 

Not changing personalities from a year ago

I gave you faith

You broke my stride

You were my angel

And I was the devil

I hope that I'm finally out of your shirt pocket

The trauma of your parents

And The trauma of your ex

To the trauma that I asked you to digest

The pain that you have dealt was just the pain that I had caused

You were broken by a man you never really knew

Take this as my conviction don't forget what I have done

But move on and find a man who won't do what I have done

But be himself, not shrink down, and to love you right

And be who you thought I was

And I'll try to be who you wished I