[Verse 1]
You call when the day has broken
With a storm behind your eyes
I learn every name for your hurting
While my own stays out of sight
I hold the door for your bad weather
I make a home beneath your rain
But when I reach for your shoulder
You turn back to your pain
[Pre-Chorus]
I know the shape of every worry
The words you never have to say
But do you know what keeps me awake
When you turn and look away?
[Chorus]
Why's it always your problems, your tears, your truth?
Why am I standing here loving for two?
A heart can't live on one side of the line
I give you all of mine, but where is yours tonight?
Love's supposed to meet me halfway through
Why's it always your problems, your tears, your truth?
[Verse 2]
We had coffee by the window
You spoke three hours about him
The one who left you with the pieces
The one you still let in
I tried to tell you I was lonely
You said, "Baby, I understand"
Then your phone lit up with trouble
And I disappeared again
[Pre-Chorus]
I am not asking for perfection
Or a life without the blues
I just need one room in your heart
Where I am not passing through
[Chorus]
Why's it always your problems, your tears, your truth?
Why am I standing here loving for two?
A heart can't live on one side of the line
I give you all of mine, but where is yours tonight?
Love's supposed to meet me halfway through
Why's it always your problems, your tears, your truth?
[Bridge]
I can be patient, I can be gentle
I can stay when the hard times call
But I can't keep shrinking my silence
Till there's nothing left of me at all
So tell me, darling, when you say forever
Do you mean my name in it too?
Or am I just the hands that catch you
When the world comes crashing through?
[Final Chorus]
It can't be just your problems, your tears, your truth
And me standing here loving for two
A heart needs a hand reaching back in the dark
Not one voice speaking while the other falls apart
If love is a promise, let it carry us through
Not just your problems, your tears, your truth
[Outro]
I still love you, but I need love too
Two hearts, one road, something honest to hold onto