I Can’t Keep Waiting

I wish love was enough this time I left the porch light burning Like I’ve done a thousand nights Hoping you’d come home different With forever in your eyes But the clock keeps talking louder Than the promises you make And I’m tired of pretending That my heart don’t bend and break I wanted to believe you More than I believed the truth But I can’t keep losing myself Just to keep a piece of you I can’t keep waiting on a love That only shows up when it’s easy I can’t keep praying for a heart That never learned how to need me I gave you every sunrise Every tear I tried to hide But you kept standing at the doorway Never fully stepping inside So tonight I’m done breaking For a dream that keeps fading I still love you, but baby I can’t keep waiting There’s a dress inside the closet That I wore the night we danced Back when you looked right at me Like I was your only chance Now it hangs there like a memory Of a girl I used to be Before loving you felt heavy Before goodbye felt like peace I wanted us to make it God knows I really tried But love can’t be the answer When I’m the only one alive I can’t keep waiting on a love That only shows up when it’s easy I can’t keep praying for a heart That never learned how to need me I gave you every sunrise Every tear I tried to hide But you kept standing at the doorway Never fully stepping inside So tonight I’m done breaking For a dream that keeps fading I still love you, but baby I can’t keep waiting Maybe someday you’ll miss me When the silence fills the room Maybe you’ll reach for the woman Who used to reach for you But I’ll be somewhere healing Somewhere learning how to breathe And the part of me you broke down Will be stronger when it leaves I can’t keep waiting on a love That only holds me halfway I can’t keep calling it forever When you treat it like a someday I gave you all my softness All my fire, all my time But I won’t spend another evening Begging you to change your mind So tonight I’m done breaking For a dream that keeps fading I still love you, but baby I can’t keep waiting Soft piano, pedal steel fading I still love you But I can’t keep waiting *