never stopped loving you

[Spoken Intro]

I don't really know where to begin...
Because when a love ends,
it doesn't break in just one place.
It shatters everywhere.

And Pooh...
this is probably the last thing I'll ever say to you.

[Verse 1]

You had me looking stupid,
while everybody knew
I was still standing beside you,
believing in me and you.

I gave you all my patience,
I gave you all my faith,
while you were getting comfortable
watching my heart break.

And the part that hurts the deepest,
you can sit and talk to me
about the one you played me for
like it wasn't killing me.

How can you be so comfortable
talking about her to my face?
When I'm the one who loved you
while you were giving her my place?

[Pre-Chorus]

And I stayed...
God knows I stayed.

I kept praying you'd come back,
kept hoping you'd change.

But every time I thought
maybe this could still be us,
I'd turn around and cry
because I knew what it was.

[Chorus]

I never stopped loving you,
I just stopped losing me.
I never stopped hoping
you'd come back eventually.

There wasn't a day that went by
I didn't pray you'd find your way.
But I'd turn around and cry
knowing we would never be the same.

I never stopped loving you...
That's the part you'll never know.

I just couldn't keep standing
where my heart wasn't home.

You were asking me to take you back,
but how could I forget
that the woman who would've given you forever
was the woman you made regret?

[Verse 2]

You had a solid woman,
one who would've got out the mud with you.

I would've built beside you
when nobody else would.

I wasn't looking for perfection.
I wasn't asking for the world.

I just wanted to feel wanted.
I just wanted to feel like your girl.

Instead I felt taken for granted,
lied to and disrespected.

And somehow I was still the one
trying to keep us connected.

Maybe you didn't understand it
when you had me in your hands...

But you didn't just lose a girlfriend.

You lost a woman
who would've been your wife.

[Pre-Chorus 2]

And that's what hurts...

Not just that you left.

It's knowing I was fighting
for something you had already left.

You came back asking for another chance,
and my heart almost said yes...

But my mind remembered everything
my tears already confessed.

[Chorus]

I never stopped loving you,
I just stopped losing me.
I never stopped hoping
you'd come back eventually.

There wasn't a day that went by
I didn't pray you'd find your way.
But I'd turn around and cry
knowing we would never be the same.

I never stopped loving you...
And that's why this hurts so bad.

Because losing you wasn't the worst part...

It was knowing I was the only one
trying to hold on to what we had.

[Bridge]

Maybe to you...
it was just a chapter.

But Pooh...

to me, it felt like my whole story.

I still miss the conversations.
I still miss the little jokes
only we understood.

I still miss the version of us
that I thought was gonna last.

And if I'm being honest...

A part of me still wants you.

But loving you
doesn't mean I have to lose myself again.

[Final Chorus]

I never stopped loving you!
I need you to know that!

I never stopped praying
you'd come running back.

But I can't go back
to the woman I became
trying to make somebody love me
who already knew my name.

You had a woman
who would've gone through the mud with you!

A woman who was solid!
A woman who was loyal!

A woman who would've made you her husband...

And you fucked that up.

[Outro - Spoken]

My silence was never indifference.

It was self-respect.

I didn't stop loving you, Pooh.

I just finally learned
that loving you couldn't keep costing me myself.

Take care of yourself.

I sincerely hope life treats you kindly.

And I hope one day...

you finally understand what you had.

Goodbye.