HOW I LOVED YOU

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.