why can't you be the one?
Lyrics
Verse 1
You kiss me like you mean it every time
Then disappear like I just crossed your mind
I keep falling for the almost-love
For the “maybe someday” you never give enough of
Your hands feel like home on my skin
But your heart won’t let me all the way in
And I keep trying to turn your chaos into trust
While you keep breaking everything between us
Pre-Chorus
I swear you look at me
Like I’m the girl you want forever
But forever never lasts with you
Chorus
Why can’t you be the one
The one that stays when the night gets hard?
The one that loves me loud
Instead of tearing me apart?
Why can’t you hold me
Without letting go the second I believe it?
Why do you pull me close
If you don’t really mean it?
You feel like my person
But you love me like a loaded gun
So why can’t you be the one?
Verse 2
I know your patterns like the back of my hand
Cold for a week, then you show up again
You say you’re scared of getting too deep
But I’m the one losing sleep
I wear heartbreak like designer clothes
Pretty on the outside, falling apart alone
And somehow I still answer every late-night call
Even knowing you’ll never catch me when I fall
Pre-Chorus
You say you need me
Then leave before the morning
And I’m left holding onto nothing
Chorus
Why can’t you be the one
The one that stays when the night gets hard?
The one that loves me loud
Instead of tearing me apart?
Why can’t you hold me
Without letting go the second I believe it?
Why do you pull me close
If you don’t really mean it?
You feel like my person
But you love me like a loaded gun
So why can’t you be the one?
Bridge
Maybe I fell for potential
Maybe I loved the idea of you
Maybe I kept hoping one day
You’d become the man I needed you to
But hope is dangerous
When it’s wrapped up in someone like you
Final Chorus
Why can’t you be the one
The one that chooses me completely?
The one that doesn’t leave
Every time things get too real too quickly?
I gave you every broken piece
And you still treated love like something temporary
You could’ve been my forever
Now you’re just another lesson I can’t outrun
But God…
I wanted you to be the one
(soft background vocal)
“Yeah… I wanted you to be the one…”