Room at the Table

[Verse 1]
I learned your favorite silence, learned the shape of every ache
Kept a drawer of borrowed promises I never meant to take
I gave my Sunday mornings, gave the coat off my own back
Now I stand outside my own heart, waiting for it to let me back

[Pre-Chorus]
I kept making room at the table
Till there was nowhere left for me

[Chorus]
I gave too much love to too many hands
Now I can’t believe that anyone can want me as I am
I spent every kindness like a coin I couldn’t keep
And when you reach for me, I flinch before I speak
If love is something I deserve
Why does it feel like I’ve used it all?

[Verse 2]
I know the small repairs you need, the tea you take with honey
I know how to make a leaving look like it was nothing
I called it being generous, I called it being good
But I was buying every goodbye with more than I should

[Pre-Chorus]
I kept making room at the table
Till there was nowhere left for me

[Chorus]
I gave too much love to too many hands
Now I can’t believe that anyone can want me as I am
I spent every kindness like a coin I couldn’t keep
And when you reach for me, I flinch before I speak
If love is something I deserve
Why does it feel like I’ve used it all?

[Bridge]
You don’t have to earn a place here
You don’t have to bleed to stay
That’s what I would tell a stranger
If I met myself today

[Breakdown]
Take one breath
Let one hand stay
I am not the debt
I tried to pay

[Final Chorus]
I gave too much love to too many hands
Still, there’s a little left to learn to understand
I spent every kindness, but it wasn’t all I had
Maybe being loved is not a thing I have to pay back
If love is something I deserve
Let me believe it, even now

[Outro]
Let me believe it, even now