Lyrics

**Verse 1**
You keep asking why she’s distant
Why she don’t reach for you at night
But you can’t feed a heart with leftovers
Then expect it to treat you right

You come home carrying excuses
Lay them down beside her pain
Then act surprised when all that sunshine
Finally turns into rain

A woman can forgive your weakness
She can stand through harder days
But if you keep taking without giving
Her love will slowly change

**Pre-Chorus**
You can’t plant a field with nothing
Then complain when nothing grows
What you send into somebody’s heart
Is the same thing coming home

**Chorus**
You only get what you put out, brother
You only reap what you sow
If you give her cold indifference
Don’t expect her love to show

You only get what you put out, brother
That’s the way this life is built
Give her honesty and tenderness
And she’ll return it multiplied

But if you hand her pain and sorrow
One day that pain comes back to live
You only get what you put out
You get back what you give

**Verse 2**
I learned it from a good woman
Who stayed longer than she should
She kept believing I would change
Because she saw some hidden good

But I kept spending all her patience
Like it never had an end
Called her love a guarantee
Instead of treating her like my best friend

Then one morning she stopped arguing
Stopped asking where I’d been
That quiet wasn’t peace between us
That was her heart closing in

**Pre-Chorus**
By the time I started giving
She had nothing left to take
I learned love don’t leave in one day
It leaves with every small mistake

**Chorus**
You only get what you put out, brother
You only reap what you sow
If you make her feel unwanted
Don’t be shocked when she lets go

You only get what you put out, brother
Love remembers what you do
Every promise without action
Turns a faithful heart from you

**Bridge**
Give respect when no one’s watching
Give attention when she speaks
Show up when her spirit’s heavy
Not just when there’s something you need

Don’t call control protection
Don’t call silence being strong
A man who loves with selfish hands
Will wake up with his woman gone

And don’t blame fate or bad luck
When your own ways bring you down
Every seed you threw behind you
Still grows somewhere in the ground

**Final Chorus**
You only get what you put out, brother
So give the best that’s in your soul
Give her truth without conditions
Give her arms that make her whole

You only get what you put out, brother
That law don’t bend for any man
If you want a woman’s loyalty
Give her something she can stand

Put out love, you’ll find love waiting
Put out hurt, hurt’s coming too
You only get what you put out
That’s the truth returning to you

**Outro**
I’m not speaking like I’m perfect
I’m speaking from the price I paid
I lost a woman worth forever
Because I loved her halfway

So before you ask why love changed
Take a good look at what you did
You only get what you put out, brother
You get back what you give.