If You Really Love Me

You want to hold me

And I don’t feel that I can get away

Girl, but if you’d know me

Then you would see that I could use a little space

I get up slowly, try to walk away

And I can see the tears run down your face

I want to love ya, but I’m feeling smothered

And I don’t wanna force myself to stay

Girl, what I’m trying to say

Is if you really love me, you’d love me when I’m gone

If you’d really trust me, you wouldn’t need me in your arms

And if you know what love was, you’d know there’s something wrong but it isn’t all that ugly

And you’d know

If you really love me

It’s silly really I feel we don’t speak our minds

Or take our time to talk, we just spark

Inflamable conversations, testing each others patience

Waiting for a mistake to be made to fuel the raging

Passion, the cause of irrational actions, it happens

We can’t get to the essence

Got the code, can’t get to the message (why?)

Cause we both sound way too aggressive

I mirror you when I should be reflecting

Making the same mistakes, I don't learn my lesson

Return to old ways we just keep regressing

Stressing or second guessing, now what was the expression?

Distance makes the heart grow fonder

Maybe we should just be apart for a second or longer, and we could just be cool

If I can just be me and you can just be you but girl

If you really love me, you’d love me when I’m gone

If you’d really trust me, you wouldn’t need me in your arms

And if you know what love was, you’d know there’s something wrong but it isn’t all that ugly

And you’d know

If you really love me