"Both Ways" lyrics

You gave me the best year I ever had
And the worst one right behind it
Same hands, same voice, same everything
I still don't know how to divide it

People ask me if I'd do it over
Like there's a version where I win
Like I could take the summer and refuse the winter
Like they weren't the same skin

It hurts both ways, it heals both ways
I cry both ways, I breathe both ways
Can't have the light without the dark
That's how love is made it goes both ways

I keep the good ones and the bad ones in one box
Never learned to sort them out
Every song that saved me also broke me
That's what all of this is about

The heaven and the hell inside
Live in the same room, share the same wall
I don't get to keep one and leave the other
I take all of it or none at all

It hurts both ways, it heals both ways
I cry both ways, I breathe both ways
Can't have the light without the dark
That's how love is made it goes both ways

Wouldn't trade the burn for numbness
Wouldn't trade the fall for flat
If it only went one direction
It was never love, just that

It hurts both ways, it heals both ways
I broke both ways, I grew both ways
Can't have the light without the dark
That's how love is made it goes both ways