"Love Is Song" lyrics

Thought love was simple, easy, clean
Something from a film I watched at seventeen
Then you showed up, beautiful and strange
Now I'm in the wreckage wondering what changed

Love is not the butterflies
It's crying at 2 AM, it's asking why
It's holding on to someone who
Was never really holding you

Love is the thing that breaks you open
Love is the word you leave unspoken
Love is the ache that doesn't fade
Love is the promise you unmade

Every song I hear has your name in it
Every melody I loved turned strange
Funny how a thing that beautiful
Leaves a room this full of empty space

People say it gets easier with time
People say the melody moves on
But I keep humming what we started
And I can't find where it's gone

Love is the reason that I stayed
Love is the reason I should've gone
Love is the ache that doesn't fade
Love is the only song I know

Not a movie, not a scene
Just the thing that leaves you bare
Sweetest sound I've ever known
And the heaviest to bear

Love is the thing that breaks you open
Love is the word you leave unspoken
Love is the ache that doesn't fade
Love is the only song I've made