I Came With My Heart
By Ernestina Writes
**I CAME WITH MY HEART**
**Verse 1**
I walked through your door with nothing to hide,
Left all my fears and my pride outside.
I brought you my dreams, I brought you my scars,
I gave you the pieces of who we are.
I wasn't looking for a perfect love,
I wasn't asking for the stars above.
I just needed somewhere I could belong,
Someone who would hold me when the nights were long.
**Pre-Chorus**
I trusted you with every part of me,
I thought your arms were where I was meant to be.
I never knew that love could change so fast,
Or that forever could become the past.
**Chorus**
I came with my heart, I came with my soul,
I gave you the pieces that nobody knows.
I came with my dreams, I came with my truth,
I gave you the best of me because I believed in you.
If loving you was a mistake,
It's a lesson I'll carry, not a heart I'll break.
I may have lost the love I knew,
But I won't lose myself because of you.
**Verse 2**
I remember the nights we stayed awake,
Talking about the future we were gonna make.
You promised me we'd never let it go,
But promises can disappear like smoke.
Now I'm standing where we used to be,
Looking at a stranger looking back at me.
I wonder when we stopped becoming “us,”
When did love become something we couldn't trust?
**Pre-Chorus**
I don't regret the love I gave,
Even though it couldn't stay.
Some people enter your life
To show you a better way.
**Chorus**
I came with my heart, I came with my soul,
I gave you the pieces that nobody knows.
I came with my dreams, I came with my truth,
I gave you the best of me because I believed in you.
If loving you was a mistake,
It's a lesson I'll carry, not a heart I'll break.
I may have lost the love I knew,
But I won't lose myself because of you.
**Bridge**
Maybe I came to you to find love,
But I found something more.
I found the strength I didn't know I had
When you walked out that door.
Now I can stand on my own,
Now I can breathe on my own.
The heart I gave you wasn't wasted—
It taught me how to love myself.
**Final Chorus**
I came with my heart, I came with my soul,
I gave you everything I could hold.
I came with my dreams, I came with my truth,
And I won't apologize for loving you.
You were a chapter, not my whole life,
I survived the tears, I survived the night.
I came to you believing love could start—
And I leave with the strength inside my heart.
**Outro**
I came with my heart...
I gave you my truth...
I lost a love...
But I found me too.
I came with my heart.
