

I was a man with a restless soul
A lotta miles and a heart gone cold
You saw something I could not see
A better man buried underneath
I knew hard roads,
I knew goodbye
How to shut down,
how to survive
But loving you the way you needed to
Was something I was still learning to do
That’s how I loved you
Quiet and rough around the edges too
Never had the words when I needed to
But every part of me kept reaching for you
I wasn’t the man that I am right now
Life has a way of teaching you somehow If love means trying
when you’re black and blue
Then darlin’... that’s how I loved you
There were nights you cried beside my side
And I just sat there with nowhere to hide
Wanted to fix what I couldn’t name Wanted to hold you through
all that pain
The truth is simple and hard to say
I loved you wrong in my own broken way Not ‘cause I
didn’t care enough
I just didn’t know what real love was
That’s how I loved you
Quiet and rough around the edges too
Never had the words when I needed to
But every part of me kept reaching for you
I wasn’t the man that I am right now Life has a
way of teaching you somehow If love means trying when you’re black
and blue Then darlin’...
that’s how I loved you
The man before you ain’t who I became You helped me heal
what I could not explain And if I hurt you,
Lord I carry that still Some wounds don’t fade,
no matter your will I’d give anything for one more drive Your
hand in mine on a Friday night Just to say the words
I couldn’t back then I love you more than I ever knew
when This is how I love you
With every scar and every hard truth too
No more hiding behind what I went through No more silence standing
next to you
I may have failed in a thousand ways But not one morning
passed, not one damn day
That somewhere deep, my heart wasn’t true
I just didn’t know how…
But God, how I loved you
If love is learning too late
what was true... Then this song’s for you.