The Weight of Your Problems

We opened up our home when you had nowhere to go,

Gave you food, gave you love, gave you hope you didn't know.

Tried to pull you from the darkness, tried to show another way,

But somehow all your problems became ours every day.

We ain't asking for perfection, just a reason to believe,

But you keep making promises you never seem to keep.

Every time we build you up, you find a way to fall,

And we're losing pieces of ourselves just trying to give you all.

We got battles of our own that you don't even see,

We're fighting for our peace while you're fighting to be free.

How do you save somebody who won't even try?

How many times can we break before we finally cry?

We're drowning, drowning, trying to save you,

Breaking ourselves for the things you won't do.

We're falling, falling, can't you see?

Your broken world is breaking me.

Breaking me… breaking me…

We're losing sleep, we're losing peace.

We gave you love, we gave you truth,

But we're dying from the stress of saving you.

You got demons from your past, yeah, we know they run deep,

But we're the ones awake at night while you're getting your sleep.

Every lie, every excuse, every bridge you let burn,

We're the ones cleaning ashes while you refuse to learn.

We got dreams, we got a future, got a life we're trying to make,

But we're carrying your burdens till our own foundations shake.

You say nobody loves you, nobody ever cared,

But look around the room at the people still standing there.

We ain't your enemies, we never wanted war,

But you can't keep taking pieces when we've got nothing more.

What about us?

What about the nights we cried?

What about the love we gave while our own hearts died?

You don't have to be perfect,

You don't have to be strong,

But you gotta stop pretending everybody else is wrong.

We're not giving up on who you could become,

But we can't keep bleeding for the battles that you run from.

We're drowning, drowning, trying to save you,

Breaking ourselves for the things you won't do.

We're screaming, screaming, can't you see?

You're losing the people who refused to leave.

Losing peace… losing sleep…

Spinning, spinning, endlessly…

We gave you shelter, we gave you truth,

But we can't lose ourselves trying to rescue you.

One day you'll understand what it cost us to stay,

How much of ourselves we slowly gave away.

We wanted to save you, but here's the painful truth…

We can't keep destroying ourselves just to keep saving you.