HALFWAY

I'd trade a bullet scar for another broken heart
So while you're falling to your knees I am standing here with folded arms
counting reasons we should grow apart
even if it means I have to sit here and focus on your only flaw

magnify it til I'm positive you don't belong
let the negativity consume me til the hope is gone
and hope that you don't pull my card
to find out it's my fear of going all in that's keeping me from holding on

see i don't even know what's going on
the only thing i've ever known for sure is what I know is wrong
and that’s a sad enough solo song
so I refuse to get us both involved

cuz love's a journey but that boulevard is full of cars
I roll across and hope to God that I can make a U-Turn
and you learn I’m just limping on my last leg
i'd love to go the distance but can only make it halfway

Wherever we fall I can’t be blamed
Me risk it all again – you must be crazy
I can only meet you halfway
I can only meet you halfway

I’d trade a bullet scar for another broken heart
So while you’re head is in the heavens, I’m just reaching for the lowest star
You’re aiming for the sky, but I believe that it’s supposed to fall
You’re on the front line and I’m retreating ‘fore we go to war

But I won’t be blamed as the reason you’re alone tomorrow
So I’m gonna stay, but I’m keeping up the cold façade
I’ll sit and wait ‘til you leave me on your own accord
then I can say you were the one to go and throw it all away

I know it feels like such a crooked game
the closer that you get to me the more I push away
the more things feel different the more they look the same
the more you ask for more the more I wouldn’t change

Wish it was something that I could explain
but my only enemy is my inner me
and it’s killing me watching you limping on your last leg
trying to go the distance, but I stop you only halfway

Wherever we fall I can’t be blamed
Me risk it all again – you must be crazy
I can only meet you halfway
I can only meet you halfway

they said you can’t kill it if it never lives
you’ll never have to heal if you never face the pain
can’t stop the music if the record never spins
nobody loses if they never play the game

but you’ll never know if it never is
you’ll never be a star if you’re stuck backstage
you never win nothing if it’s never put to risk
and can’t be a man going only halfway

so maybe I should let it go
forget about every single thing I’ve ever known
kick the legs off the pedestal—
let it fall, let it break,
maybe I can put it back together even if its better than it’s been before

I tried to fight your flood, but the levee broke
when it dries I might be walking on a better road—
no U-turns allowed, just a fast lane
you and I can ride down and fly by the halfway

Wherever we fall I can’t be blamed
Me risk it all again – you must be crazy
I can only meet you halfway
I can only meet you halfway