When I say things I don’t mean sometimes
And regret’s written all on my face
When I’m not who you fell for at first
When I’m distant, when I’m insecure
Do you stay when it starts to hurt?
Or do you walk out that door?
I don’t need a perfect kind of love
I need the kind that doesn’t run
Love me when it’s hard
When I don’t look like your favorite part
When I’m losing grip, falling too far
Don’t just love the version that’s strong
Stay when I break down
When there’s nothing left worth holding now
If you’re really in, don’t turn around
Love me when it’s hard
When I’m up at two AM in my head
Overthinking things I never said
When I’m drowning in my own mistakes
And pushing you away instead
When I’m tired of being okay
When I don’t have the words to say
Can you sit with me in that place
Even if I can’t be saved?
I don’t need somebody who just shines
I need somebody who survives
Love me when it’s hard
When I don’t know who I really am
When I’m breaking all your careful plans
And I don’t fit in your world
Stay when I fall apart
When I’m everything you didn’t want
If you’re gonna love me at all
Love me when it’s hard
Don’t leave me in the silence
Don’t love me from a distance
Don’t wait until I’m better to come back
If you’re really for me
Then you gotta see me at my worst and stay
Even when it’s ugly, stay
Even when it’s too much
Love me when it’s hard
Not just when it’s safe and it’s calm
Not just when I’m easy to want
Or when I’m playing my part
Stay when I come undone
When there’s nothing left to hold on to
If you say forever, be true
Love me when it’s hard
Anybody can love you when you shine
But the real one stays when you’re not
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