Lyrics

Verse 1
You keep searching every room
For something you already found
Turning toward every new voice
While mine keeps calling you back home
I know the way your pride gets restless
When attention starts to fade
You mistake being desired
For having something real that stays
I have stood beside your failures
Never used them as a weapon
Still, you chase what looks exciting
And overlook what has been proven
Chorus
You can’t see what’s right before you
While you’re looking everywhere
You keep reaching for affection
That was waiting for you here
You can’t see the love that knows you
Past the image you display
You’re so busy chasing strangers
You don’t notice what you throw away
Verse 2
She may tell you what you want
Because she doesn’t know the cost
She ain’t watched you lose your courage
Or helped you gather what was lost
She knows the man you show in public
I know who you are at night
I know when your silence means you’re wounded
And when your anger hides your fright
But familiarity made you careless
You stopped treating love as rare
You started calling me convenient
Because I was always there
Chorus
You can’t see what’s right before you
While you’re looking everywhere
You keep reaching for affection
That was waiting for you here
You can’t see the love that knows you
Past the image you display
You’re so busy chasing strangers
You don’t notice what you throw away
Bridge — Soft Gospel Responses
Lead: I will not compete for value
Background: She knows what she gave
Lead: I will not beg you to remember
Background: The love that stayed
Lead: One day distance may reveal
What closeness let you take for granted
But by the time your eyes are open
This heart may not be where you left it
Final Chorus
You couldn’t see what stood before you
Till I finally stepped away
Now you miss the quiet devotion
You once treated as ordinary
You couldn’t see the woman loving you
Because your eyes were chasing change
Now the one you overlooked
May be the one you cannot reclaim
Outro — Restrained Ad-libs
You kept looking, baby
Looking everywhere
And the love you said you wanted
Was standing right there
But love ignored too long
Learns how to leave
You couldn’t see me then
Now you can’t reach me