She Was Done - Soul Blues Icon
She would have rode with you through bad years
Through the bills and sleepless nights
Through the seasons when you had nothing
Through the days you lost your fight
She wasn't looking for perfection
She just needed something true
And you had somebody beside you
Who would have walked through hell with you
But you kept testing what was loyal
Like her love could never leave
Till the day she stopped explaining
And packed everything she needed
You lost the one who would have stayed
Through every ugly part of you
The one who would have held your hand
When nobody else came through
You lost the one who would have stayed
And that's why this hurts this way
You didn't know what leaving meant
Till she had nothing left to say
She was done
Yeah, she was really done
Maybe you thought she'd keep forgiving
Maybe tears would buy more time
Maybe every broken promise
Could be repaired with one more try
But something changes in a woman
When she's begged enough to matter
She stops arguing about the pieces
And starts gathering what's left of her
And maybe when she closed that door
It tore her heart in two
But hurting while she walked away
Was still safer than loving you
You lost the one who would have stayed
The woman built for all your storms
She would have loved you at your lowest
If you had kept her heart from harm
You lost the one who would have stayed
And now there ain't a thing to change
Cause by the time you felt the ending
She had already found her strength
Maybe this wasn't meant to save you too
Maybe this was meant to wake you up
Maybe losing her is how you learn
That love alone is not enough
So don't go find another woman
And make her pay for what you learned
Don't have somebody fall forever
Till you know what forever works
She may find the kind of loving
She never knew she had been missing
And you may have to live with knowing
You taught her what she shouldn't live with
You lost the one who would have stayed
And no apology can change it now
She finally chose herself
After choosing you through every doubt
You lost the one who would have stayed
So let that loss make something clear
If somebody gives you real love again
Don't wait till they're gone to see it
You lost the one who would have stayed
Yeah, she probably would have stayed
Till staying hurt more than leaving did
She wasn't weak for leaving
She just finally knew
And now you know too