Loved Your Potential

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I met you half-grown Still sleeping in your old room Thirty-eight and stuck Still answering to your mood You wore good words like cologne But they never fit your hands All that promise in your mouth And nowhere in your plans [Pre-Chorus] I kept reading the future In every sorry you said I called it love When it was a pattern instead You wanted a witness Not a partner, not a home I was holding your dreams While you refused to grow [Chorus] I loved your potential (Not the man you were) I loved your potential While you kept breaking my world You said you’d change You said you cared But words don’t build a life there I loved your potential Now I love me instead [Verse 2] Pain pills on the counter And truth behind your teeth You’d twist every story Till the damage looked like me Fight, then beg, then vanish Then come back soft and sweet Call me the problem While you pulled the rug beneath [Pre-Chorus] You blamed the room Then you blamed my tone Turned every red flag Into a joke you owned Your mother in the middle Like a wife you never had And I was begging a boy To be a man [Chorus] I loved your potential (Not the man you were) I loved your potential While you kept breaking my world You said you’d change You said you cared But words don’t build a life there I loved your potential Now I love me instead [Bridge] I kept the receipts In my bleeding heart Every apology Was a fresh new start Then the same old bruise Then the same old blame I was dying to save you You were feeding the flame [Final Chorus] I loved your potential (Not the man you were) I loved your potential While you kept breaking my world You said you’d change You said you cared But words don’t build a life there I loved your potential Now I love me instead [Outro] You were never mine to fix Never mine to raise I needed a partner Not a promise in decay I loved your potential Now I love me instead