You Deserve Better Too

[ Lyrics ]

You deserve better too, not just me.

Midnight scroll, your profile glow,
a half-smile in that rooftop photo.
He’s got his arm like he’s earned it,
but your eyes still look like you’re learning.
I know that stare — distant, soft, confused,
like love’s a language you’re slowly bruised through.
You wore his sweatshirt in the second story,
fingers tracing a name not meant for glory.

I thought I was the exception, the fix, the cure,
the one who’d make him want to stay secure.
And if you’re thinking that now, baby, I don’t judge —
he plays it sweet when he’s running from us.

You deserve better too, not just me,
not just silence and apologies.
A love that shows up, not just shows off,
holds your heart like it’s more than a job.
You deserve better too — I say it true —
even if he never does.

You tagged that song — the one he used on me,
‘Remember Us’ with the minor key.
He plays it like it means something real,
but it’s just the script he re-feels.
I see you like it when he quotes your poems,
but he saved mine in a folder called ‘home’ —
then left it there, untouched, unseen,
like all the promises he never cleaned.

So if you’re rewriting your dreams to fit his pace,
know you’re not the first one he’s tried to erase.
And you won’t be the last — but maybe the last who tries
as hard as I did just to pass his eyes.

You deserve better too, not just me,
not just love that’s conditional-free.
A hand that stays when the fight gets loud,
not one that drowns you in a cloud.
You deserve better too — I mean it through —
even if he never does.

I used to wear his moods like my own weather,
change my tone just to keep it light, keep it together.
You’re doing the same dance — different shoes,
same rhythm of hope he uses to lose.
But I see you — girl, I really do —
in the quiet, in the doubt, in the “is it just me?”
We’re not the problem. We were just the proof
he could love and still choose the loosest truth.

You deserve better too, not just me,
not just love that takes more than it gives.
A soul that stays, not just one that swoons,
doesn’t flinch when you set your own rules.
You deserve better too — I sing it to you —
even if he never does.

You deserve better too…

You do.