LYRIC FOR SALE

By Alija

(Verse 1)

You found me where the lonely go,
Where broken hearts still learn to glow.
I knew your kind of quiet pain,
The kind that smiles through pouring rain.
You’d been giving pieces away,
Calling it love when they chose to stay.
I had been doing the same damn thing,
Giving my winter everything.
Then you touched me without taking,
Held my heart without remaking.
You saw the cracks beneath my skin
And never asked me to hide them in.
You looked at me like I was whole,
Like nothing missing made me less.
And for the first time in my life,
Being loved felt dangerous.

(Pre-Chorus)

You gave me the kind of love
I thought only existed in my hands.
I gave you the same kind back,
And suddenly we couldn’t stand.
We knew how to be someone’s shelter,
Never knew how to sleep inside.
So when love finally felt like home,
We mistook the door for a place to hide.

(Chorus)

We ran from the home we prayed for,
From the arms we waited years to find.
You were the peace behind my war,
I was the answer to your why.
Two hearts fluent in giving,
Strangers to receiving.
When forever touched our lips,
We kissed it once, then stopped believing.
You were everything I asked the sky for,
I was everything you gave away.
Maybe we found the right kind of love
Before we knew how to stay.

(Verse 2)

You never made me chase your shadow,
Never made me earn your light.
Never turned affection into
Something I had to get right.
You didn’t love me like a transaction,
No debt, no price, no hidden cost.
And somehow unconditional
Felt more frightening than being lost.
I knew how to read abandonment
Between the spaces of a text.
I knew how to hear goodbye
Before somebody left.
But you spoke in open windows,
Left no locks beneath your tongue.
I’d spent my whole life learning love
With a loaded gun.
So I searched your kindness for a warning,
Your softness for a knife.
I kept waiting for the beautiful
To ask me for my life.
You kept asking me to stay,
I kept preparing to leave.
Not because I didn’t trust your heart
I couldn’t believe
someone could hold mine
and still let me breathe.

(Pre-Chorus)

We were both fluent in sacrifice,
Both addicted to being needed.
We knew how to bleed for someone,
But not how to let ourselves be treated.
You called my wounds beautiful,
I called your tenderness dangerous.
Funny how the safest hands
Can feel the most unfamiliar.

(Chorus)

We ran from the home we prayed for,
From the arms we waited years to find.
You were the peace behind my war,
I was the answer to your why.
Two hearts fluent in giving,
Strangers to receiving.
When forever touched our lips,
We kissed it once, then stopped believing.
You were everything I asked the sky for,
I was everything you gave away.
Maybe we found the right kind of love
Before we knew how to stay.

(Bridge)

Maybe we weren’t soulmates too late,
Maybe we were souls still learning
what a soulmate was.
Maybe I called it bad timing
because “I wasn’t ready”
sounded easier than
“I’ve never been loved like this.”
Maybe you called it distance
because saying “I miss you”
meant admitting
you still had a home in me.
You were not my lesson,
Not my punishment,
Not some beautiful mistake
I was meant to outgrow.
You were the first time
I saw my own heart
through somebody else’s eyes
and didn’t hate what I saw.

(Final Chorus)

We ran from the home we prayed for,
Like prayers become dangerous when they’re heard.
You were the love behind my locked doors,
I was the truth beneath your words.
Two hearts fluent in giving,
Two hands afraid to be held.
We called heaven “too much”
Because we’d only known hell.
You were everything I asked the sky for,
I was everything you couldn’t keep.
Maybe love wasn’t our wrong timing
Maybe we were simply too deep.
We found the right kind of love
Before we knew how to stay.

(Outro)

Maybe someday,
when we’re no longer afraid of being loved,
our roads will cross again.
And this time,
I won’t run.
I’ll know what I lost.
I’ll know what it meant.
So if you find your way back to me

I’ll be waiting.