Авторский текст из финального пакета. Сверка с аудио — после загрузки записи.
Verse 1
You asked me for the honest man,
For every truth I kept inside.
The first time that I said, “I need you,”
I watched the hunger leave your eyes.
I came to you without the armor,
I gave you every part I hid.
The night I finally leaned on you
Taught me exactly what needing did.
Pre-Chorus 1
You wanted every truth I kept,
But loved me only standing tall.
The moment I asked you for shelter,
You wanted me less, if at all.
Chorus 1
The day I learned how not to love
Was the day they started loving me.
When I gave them every piece I had,
They treated it like it came for free.
But when I gave them nothing back,
They stayed and begged for more of me.
The day I learned how not to love
Was the day they started loving me.
Verse 2
I learned to leave before they left.
I never asked them where they’d been.
I stopped mistaking being wanted
For the courage to let someone in.
They called my distance confidence,
Mistook my silence for control.
They never knew the man they wanted
Was only armor. No one home.
Pre-Chorus 2
I quit asking, quit explaining,
Quit believing what they said.
Funny how they called me stronger
When I gave them less instead.
Chorus 2
The day I learned how not to love
Was the day they started loving me.
No promises, no open doors,
No heart where any hand could reach.
I gave them nights, they called it love.
I gave them less, they wanted me.
The day I learned how not to love
Was the day they started loving me.
Bridge
Every woman after you
Paid for choices she never made.
I called it self-protection,
But a wound can learn to aim.
I became the man they wanted
By destroying who I’d been.
I learned exactly how to make them stay...
I never learned to let one in.
Final Chorus
The day I learned how not to love
Was the day I lost the best of me.
Every woman after you
Paid for what she never did to me.
They loved the man who needed nothing,
Not the man I used to be.
The day I learned how not to love...
Was the day I lost the best of me.
Outro
The day I learned how not to love...
It worked.