I have to tell myself
This mantra on repeat
Because trying to say
I love myself
Seems just too far away
I wake alone and head outdoors
Again to fight my daily wars
I hope today, I will not stray
You're better than you think you are
And if I do and see a face
That makes me want to fall from grace
Pull away, retreat, repeat
You're better than you think you are
I slipped and fell
And tumbled through
Every kind
Of wicked hell
Held back desires
I lost in fires
Left with ashes
Another scar
You're better than you think you are
And then you came
A kindred spirit
But clearly destined not to fit
A piece of me I gave to you
Here take it, maybe you
Can do with it
What I failed to
Can't you see
You're better than you think you are
Those nights you lay upon my lap
Those eyes, your lips, a gentle trap
Yet as I move that strand of hair
So I could get a clearer stare
Maybe you can see in you
What I cannot see in me
When I look into your soul and say
You're better than you think you are
Hey, how are you?
Did it work?
How was your week?
I found this song and thought of you
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I guess you're better than you think you are
I didn't take the time to see
Where was my own stability
But now your silence
Weighs on my conscience
Heavily
Maybe it was never true
You're better than you think you are
Another saying I know
If you love something
Let it go
But it all comes back
Dare I seek you out
No, don't lose track
You're better than you think you are
I need to take a little time
And reconnect with what I meant
When I would look at myself and vent
You're better than you think you are
I let time pass in the hopes you'd fade
But memories in a sequence played
A constant loop
I just can't take
A VCR I want to break
Just make it stop
You're better than you think you are
I'll find some way
I need to try
To shake these visions stuck
Inside my inner eye
But unseen I'll go
It's getting really hard
To say
You're better than you think you are
What options left,
To double down
Remove myself from your proper noun
Was it my only destination
That I revert to isolation
Better left alone
Than to idolise your throne
Now every day I wake alone
To worry that I'll fall astray
And throw my progress all away
Pull away, retreat, repeat
You're better than you think you are