The Good Man

[Verse 1]
I spent my yes on borrowed fires,
Kept every promise, fed each flame.
Now you arrive with open hands,
And I can’t meet you without blame.

[Pre-Chorus]
There’s a door I could step through,
But every hinge remembers who
I swore I’d never leave behind.

[Chorus]
How do I become the good man
If loving you breaks someone else?
You’re the life I should have chosen,
But I locked myself inside this shell.
I see our almost passing by—
The one I found too late, too late.

[Verse 2]
I watch your train pull out at dawn,
My old vows rattling in the cage.
I gave away the room for us
Before I knew your face or name.

[Pre-Chorus]
If I reach now, somebody falls;
If I stay, I lose it all.

[Chorus]
How do I become the good man
If loving you breaks someone else?
You’re the life I should have chosen,
But I locked myself inside this shell.
I see our almost passing by—
The one I found too late, too late.

[Bridge]
No clean escape, no harmless way,
Just all the words I can’t unsay.

[Final Chorus]
How do I become the good man
If loving you breaks someone else?
You’re the life I should have chosen—
I watch you go, and keep the cell.
The one I found too late, too late.