I learned something new today

which I thought I was done doing

but with you, I guess anything is possible.

I learned that I've been lonely for a reason

These nights that hurt so badly

These days that feel so empty

I understand why

It used to be torture for me to be alone

You know that it was

But I think I needed to meet you first 

To know what real love is.

I give of myself so freely, I fall so quickly and so easily

That I would break for every person who touched me

If not for you.

I had to know you to see what it meant to be loved

And I had to love you to realize what true love is supposed to look like

God knows I have no where to find it in this reality

So he pushed me toward you

And for so long I thought that was a liability

It ached to know that I was hopelessly attached to you

When other people could cut that tie so quickly

But he's trying to keep me safe

He doesn't want me to waste my time, my love, on anything less than what is real

i tell myself this and i try to believe it

I had to know you so that you both could show me

how it feels to be loved

unconditionally, unwaveringly, forever

Without you, I never would have seen it.

So I'll sit in this studio apartment

And pray that one day I'll be right

About the feelings I couldn't shake loose

When I was impressionable, irreparable