[00:08.85]Head under water and you tell me
[00:13.60]To breathe easy for awhile
[00:16.49]The breathing gets harder even I know that
[00:24.47]Made room for me but it's too soon to see
[00:29.10]If I'm happy in your hands
[00:32.23]I'm unusually hard to hold on to
[00:40.24]Blank stares at blank pages
[00:43.94]No easy way to say this
[00:47.84]You mean well
[00:49.68]But you make this hard on me
[00:53.60]I'm not gonna write you a love song
[00:56.51]'Cause you ask for it
[00:58.44]'Cause you need one you see
[01:01.70]I'm not gonna write you a love song
[01:04.25]'Cause you tell me it's make or break in this
[01:08.39]If you're on your way
[01:10.14]I'm not gonna write you to stay
[01:14.52]All you have is leaving
[01:16.48]I'mma need a better reason
[01:18.36]To write you a love song today today yeah
[01:28.76]
[01:30.94]I learned the hard way that they all say
[01:35.48]
[01:36.01]Things you wanna hear
[01:38.51]My heavy heart sinks deep down under
[01:45.84]You and your twisted words
[01:48.86]Your help just hurts
[01:50.56]
[01:51.14]You are not what I thought you were
[01:54.38]
[01:55.09]Hello to high and dry
[02:00.67]
[02:02.17]Convinced me to please you
[02:05.88]Made me think that I need this too
[02:09.86]I'm trying to let you hear me as I am
[02:15.56]I'm not gonna write you a love song
[02:18.45]'Cause you ask for it
[02:20.37]'Cause you need one you see
[02:23.58]I'm not gonna write you a love song
[02:26.27]'Cause you tell me it's make or break in this
[02:30.31]If you're on your way
[02:32.28]I'm not gonna write you to stay
[02:35.66]
[02:36.59]If all you have is leaving
[02:38.36]I'mma need a better reason
[02:40.24]To write you a love song today
[02:45.09]
[02:46.04]Promise me you'll leave the light on
[02:52.03]
[02:53.17]To help me see daylight my guide gone
[03:00.05]
[03:00.94]'Cause I believe there's a way
[03:05.20]You can love me because I say
[03:08.69]I won't write you a love song
[03:11.17]'Cause you ask for it
[03:13.10]'Cause you need one you see
[03:16.13]I'm not gonna write you a love song
[03:19.04]'Cause you tell me it's make or break in this
[03:23.39]Is that why you wanted a love song?
[03:26.72]'Cause you asked for it
[03:28.72]'Cause you need one you see
[03:31.76]I'm not gonna write you a love song
[03:34.55]'Cause you tell me it's make or break in this
[03:38.61]If you're on your way
[03:40.57]I'm not gonna write you to stay
[03:44.74]If your heart is nowhere in it
[03:46.69]I don't want it for a minute
[03:48.36]Babe I'll walk the seven seas
[03:50.31]When I believe that there's a reason
[03:52.45]To write you a love song today today