Tell me why

 

*(Hook)*

Why you love me when I’m broken? (yeah)

Heart froze up, I ain’t open (nah)

I push you back, you still closin’

Doors I slammed, you still hopin’ (uh)

I don’t know why you stay (no)

I don’t know what to say (yeah)

I ain’t healed, I’m just floatin’

But you see gold where I’m broken

 

*(Verse 1)*

I can’t cry, so I shut down quick

Smile on my face but inside, I glitch

Got scars on my soul I ain't proud to admit

You dive in deep, and I barely commit

You ask me “what’s wrong?”, I pretend I’m fine

But my silence got weight like it’s doin’ time

I don't trust love, it been weaponized

But you still here—girl, that’s messin’ my mind

 

I ain't perfect, I’m barely present

Still you hold me like I’m heaven-sent

You the calm in my chaotic head

I’m a mess, and you make peace with it

You tell me I’m worth more than I see

But I don’t even see the worth in me

You believe when I don’t believe

Got me askin' every night like—

 

*(Hook)*

Why you love me when I’m broken?

Heart froze up, I ain’t open

I push you back, you still closin’

Doors I slammed, you still hopin’

I don’t know why you stay

I don’t know what to say

I ain’t healed, I’m just floatin’

But you see gold where I’m broken

 

*(Verse 2)*

You deserve more, that’s what I think nightly

You love loud, and I love quietly

You show up, even when I shut down

I give cold shoulders, you don’t back down

I been runnin’ from the mirror and truth

Still haunted by the past and my youth

I been numb so long, I forgot how to feel

You hold me like love alone could heal

 

I'm scared of the fall, scared of the depth

Scared you'll wake up one day and just left

I ain't good with the words that matter

So I bottle it up ‘til I shatter

But you pick up the pieces again

Every time I break, you bend

Not to fix me, just to stay

Girl, I don’t get why you stay

 

You saw light in my darkest place

Built a home in my empty space

I don’t get it, but I crave it

And I don’t say it, but I’m grateful, yeah

 

*(Bridge)*

Maybe I don’t need the answers now

Maybe love ain’t meant to make sense out loud

You see a heart where I see a war

You knock soft on a locked-up door

And maybe I’ll learn how to let you in

But ‘til then, you love me through the wind

And I still wonder every time you breathe—

**Why you choose to stay with me?**

 

*(Outro – fade out

I don't get it, but I feel it more each day

Like love ain't logic, it's the choice you make

You could’ve left, but you always stayed

Through my silence, through my gray

If I break again, will you still be near?

Will you hold the pieces or disappear?

I ain’t fixed, but I’m tryin’ to be

'Cause maybe you see somethin’ I can't see in me…