Love Leaves Scars

LOVE LEAVES SCARS

I gave you mornings full of gold,

And nights too precious to forget.

We built a world we thought would last,

On promises we made in bed.

Now there's a chair you never fill,

A thousand words I never said.

I walk the rooms we used to share,

With yesterday inside my head.

I never knew a heart could hold

So much regret and still beat on.

I never knew the price of love

Until the one I loved was gone.

Love leaves scars that time can't hide,

A wounded heart with nowhere to hide.

I gave you everything I knew,

And lost the man I was with you.

Now every road leads back to then,

To all the things we might have been.

And though your memory tears me apart,

You still have a room inside my heart.

I hear your laughter in the rain,

Or maybe it's just in my mind.

I search for answers in old letters,

For something love forgot to sign.

The world moves on without a pause,

The days grow old, the nights remain.

And I have learned to live alone,

But I can't teach my heart to change.

Perhaps we were too young to know

That even truth can turn to dust.

Perhaps we asked for more than life

Could ever give to either of us.

Love leaves scars that time can't hide,

A wounded heart with nowhere to hide.

I gave you everything I knew,

And lost the man I was with you.

Now every road leads back to then,

To all the things we might have been.

And though your memory tears me apart,

You still have a room inside my heart.

If I could stand before you now,

With nothing left to prove or say,

I wouldn't ask you to return,

Or beg you not to walk away.

I'd only ask you one thing, love,

Before we disappear from view:

When you remember who I was,

Will you remember I was true?

Love leaves scars that time can't hide,

And some run deeper than our pride.

I gave you all I had to give,

And learned how much a heart can live.

If loving you was my mistake,

It's one I wouldn't change today.

For even through the darkest part,

You gave me life inside my heart.

The years may take your face away,

The world may change, the skies turn blue.

But somewhere in the man I am,

There's still a little bit of you.

There's still a little bit of you...