You Should’ve Waited

Don’t say my name like it still fits

You left it in the dark with him

I was a kid with a heart too big

You wanted a ring, I wanted a minute

You called that stalling, called it a crime

Then you took my friend and called it timing

I took the long road, diesel and dust

Turned every night into something numb

Made the whole world expendable

So nobody else got to watch me come undone

Now your people look at me like a win

You’re still standing in the fire you lit

I walked out clean, you stayed in it

And you wanna talk like this is fate?

You should’ve waited

You should’ve waited

You should’ve waited

Look what the road made

You wanted a man with a spine

I grew one after your name

You should’ve waited

Now I’m the one that got away

Don’t clap, don’t cry, don’t say hello

You should’ve waited

Oh, hello

That’s all you got

Oh, hello

Don’t you say my name

Then I heard he did to you

Exactly what you did to me

And you still chose the wreckage twice

While they shook my hand like I was free

I ain’t a saint, I ain’t a prize

I built armor out of empty nights

But if this room is gonna face backwards

Then I’ll say the thing we both won’t like

I didn’t get over you

I got good at leaving first

That’s not healing, that’s a curse

But it still works

You stayed

I walked

You held the match

I learned the cost

If this is winning I don’t want the speech

If this is losing you can keep the seat

You should’ve waited

Look what the road made

You wanted a man with a spine

I grew one after your name

You should’ve waited

I’m the one that got away

They’re clapping for the man I became

You’re still standing in the fire you made

You should’ve waited

You should’ve waited

Hello

That’s all we got

You should’ve waited

And I still don’t know if that’s a win