Guarantee That I'd Be Loved

[Verse 1]

He once was friend of mine

Who needed me all the time

How far would I be willing to go

To pull him back from the edge

To try to put him at ease

Or talk him off the ledge

I had to keep him alive

I did whatever he pleased

So maybe that would guarantee that I'd be loved

[Verse 2]

She seemed like a safer bet

Akin to a marionette

How far would I be willing to go

Just to escape my own head

Or to try shift the mode

Some fight or flight like responsе

Had left my body for dead

I tried to fеign nonchalance

Oh, maybe that would guarantee that I'd be loved

[Verse 3]

We both fell in love on stage

Still teens, no longer underage

How far would I be willing to go

To feel the warmth of her bed

To feel a part of her home

When she was trying to bloom

I only felt in the way

Our kind of sweetness was doomed

But had I stayed I would be guaranteed good love

[Verse 4]

She seemed inapproachable

So proud, so inconsolable

How far would I be willing to go

To bring our creation to life

To live up to our dreams

And cut myself down to size

We came apart at the seams

But I would never dare say

I thought it guaranteed that I could not be saved

[Verse 5]

I longed for her long before

Our paths crossed an open door

How far would I be willing to go

For us to both reinvent

One day I just couldn't tell

Her heartbeats from my own

And I thought to myself

I've gone and done it again

She was the greatest love that I had ever known

[Verse 6]

Turns out it wasn't enough

I longed to live in a dream

Of everything I could be

And she still echoed a world

I thought I wanted to flee

And though she always guaranteed that I'd be loved

I let it all go

I turned it all down

There was nothing to discuss

Although I took all her time

Trying to give up on us

Give up the greatest guarantee that I'd be loved

[Verse 7]

He would have been four by now

Our son, if he was around

How far would I be willing to go

To not be weighed down by love

To never have to say no

I'd pull myself from the edge

To put my baby at ease

I'd talk myself off the ledge

If maybe that could guarantee that I'd be loved