Love me

“LET M

Yeah…

I had to learn the hard way…

Sometimes the person you gotta choose

Is the person looking back in the mirror.

Yeah…

I’m learning to let love in.

I used to run when somebody got too close

Had my heart on lock, nobody knew the code

Thought love was supposed to hurt, I suppose

So I kept one foot out the door

I gave my best to people who gave me less

Called it loyalty, but I was losing myself

Carried old pain like it was part of my chest

Now I’m learning I deserve something else

I been looking at the man that I used to be

Trying to understand all the things that he couldn’t see

Every scar got a story, every tear got a reason

But I can’t keep punishing myself for another season

I know I made mistakes

I know I chose wrong

Stayed in places way too long

Trying to make a broken love feel strong

But I’m done with yesterday

It don’t get to write my name

I can honor where I came from

Without becoming all my pain

I gotta make the right choice this time

Love the right one, let the wrong ones die

Open up my heart, baby, I ain’t gonna hide

If you love me, I’ma let you love me right

And I’m giving myself grace tonight

For the man I was when I didn’t know better in life

I can’t change the past, but I can change my mind

Leave yesterday behind, let tomorrow be mine

Oh-oh, I’m letting love in

Oh-oh, I’m learning again

No more running, no more pretending

Maybe this is where my healing begins

Maybe love ain’t supposed to feel like war

Maybe I don’t gotta question what you came here for

Maybe peace is what I’ve been searching for

And maybe I deserve somebody who won’t keep score

You don’t gotta prove your love every night

I don’t gotta test you just to know you’re mine

I can trust your heart, you can trust mine

We can take our time, we don’t gotta rush the signs

I spent too many years looking through the rearview

Comparing every new love to what the old ones put me through

But you’re not them, and I’m not who I was

And that’s something I gotta remember because…

I know I made mistakes

I know I chose wrong

But those chapters don’t belong

In the story we’re writing moving forward

I’m not perfect, never claimed to be

But I’m finally learning how to give myself some peace

I can look at my past without letting it control me

And love you without losing me

I gotta make the right choice this time

Love the right one, let the wrong ones die

Open up my heart, baby, I ain’t gonna hide

If you love me, I’ma let you love me right

And I’m giving myself grace tonight

For the man I was when I didn’t know better in life

I can’t change the past, but I can change my mind

Leave yesterday behind, let tomorrow be mine

I forgive me…

For every time I stayed when I should’ve left

For every time I gave my heart

When I had nothing left

I forgive me…

For confusing pain with som