I'll Stay Anyway

Hm, mm

You keep apologizing for the way you feel

Like your sadness makes you hard to heal

You say one day you're gonna leave

'Cause everybody else eventually did

So now, you flinch when love gets close

Build your walls before it shows

But baby, I see right through the fear

And I'm still standing here

I know your heart has been at war

But you don't have to fight anymore

Even on the nights you hate yourself

I'll stay anyway

When your tears fall like rain at midnight

I won't look away

And even when your world feels broken

And your hope begins to fade

I will sit inside the dark with you

Until the light finds your face

You don't have to be perfect

You don't have to pretend

You don't have to carry all this pain

Like it's yours until the end

So when you think you're too much to love

Too damaged to be saved

Look into my arms, my love

I'll stay anyway

I know you learned to silence every need

'Cause asking hurt too deeply

And now your heart beats carefully

Like love's another emergency

But I don't wanna love the version

That has to keep me calm

I wanna know every shattered part

You think is hard to hold

And if your past comes back to haunt you

If old wounds re-open slow

I won't punish you for healing

I'll just hold you close

You survive things you don't talk about

That's why your soul's exhausted now

Even on the nights you hate yourself

I'll stay anyway

When your tears fall like rain at midnight

I won't look away

And even when your world feels broken

And your hope begins to fade

I will sit inside the dark with you

Until the light finds your face

You don't have to be perfect

You don't have to pretend

You don't have to carry all this pain

Like it's yours until the end

So when you think you're too much to love

Too damaged to be saved

Look into my arms, my love

I'll stay anyway