can't give up

There's so much i wanna tell you You're still family, there for me when no one else was Distance divides our hearts now Tryin not to drown and think for myself i wish we could go back to the way it used to be i wish we could go back to when we were young and naive I'd give you the world but it's already on your shoulders I would dry all your tears but we just grow older and older No we can't give up, yeah we've come this far tonight No we can't give up, yeah we got so much more to go

Sometimes I wake up gasping clutching my chest Was it a bad dream asleep inside my head What we want gets in the way of how we feel Our love is real but so too is this mess

I wish we could go back to the way it used to be

I wish we could go back to when we were young and naive I'd give you the world but it's already on your shoulders

I would dry all your tears but we just grow older and older

No we can't give up, yeah we've come this far tonight

No we can't give up, yeah we got so much more to go You're my everything even when I have nothing You're the very dream that wakes me from my sleep

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I wrote this song to kind of give myself light in what felt like a hopeless situation with my best friend of 10 years. We'd been through so much but most of it was long-distance and it got to the point that we were both tired of trying. It was right after we had another redundant fight and I told myself no more this time. I was moving on. I didn't need him anymore. His advice or opinions...or whatever our friendship had fallen into. Despite giving things a chance, I couldn't make myself romantically love him, no matter how guilty or obligated I felt. I felt that it was unfair for both sides, him wanting more, and me wanting the same. I still loved him as family, but I didn't know what else to try. Things were so much easier when we were young and naive.