When someone just quits after 10 years.

What a waste of love.

Every Sundays

Lyrics

Verse 1
The house was quiet, the dogs were gone,
Two empty bowls that once were full.
I swear I still hear them coming down the stairs,
Then remember there’s no one here at all.
You were the only one who knew me,
Knew how to read my silence when I couldn’t speak.
You’d put your head against my chest,
And somehow make a broken week feel less.

Pre-Chorus
Every Sunday, you would fall apart,
Crying at my window, tears with a week’s worth of regrets.
You’d tell me, “Baby, we’ll get through this somehow”…
I believed you then…
I wish I knew better now…

Chorus
You turned left and kept on walking,
Like our whole life meant nothing,
Like the vows you made were just any other words…
Forgotten once they’re heard.
I lost my dogs, I lost my home,
Then I lost you, the girl who knew my soul.

And somewhere in the wreckage,
I lost the man I used to be,
You promised you’d never give up on me.
But giving up came easy,
Even though I told you from the start,
We’d end up less than what friends are.

Verse 2
I stopped looking other people in the eyes
Started shrinking every time my confidence would rise
My personality became a memory
Of somebody so far gone, it couldn’t have been me
I did the rehab you said I needed
Tore myself apart and explored the pieces
I changed the things you said I couldn’t
Then realized you’d left
One foot out the door as soon as you stepped in

Pre-Chorus
Every Sunday, you would fall apart
Crying at my window, tears with a week’s worth of regrets
You’d tell me, “Baby, we’ll get through this somehow”
I believed you then
I wish I knew better now

Chorus
You turned left and kept on walking,
Like our whole life meant nothing,
Like the vows you made were just any other words…
Forgotten once they’re heard.
I lost my dogs, I lost my home,
Then I lost you, the girl who knew my soul.

And somewhere in the wreckage,
I lost the man I used to be,
You promised you’d never give up on me.
But giving up came easy,
Even though I told you from the start,
We’d end up less than what friends are.

Bridge
I would’ve stayed through everything you had to go through,
Every ugly lie, every curtain-covered room,
I would’ve fought until there was nothing left.
You knew that better than anyone I’d ever met,
So tell me, how’d you hold me on those Sundays?
When you were drowning in your own mistakes?
How’d you let go on a Monday?
Like none of it was yours to save?
I was slowly becoming what you wanted me to be,
You just weren’t there to see it.
I finally learned to pick myself up,
But you had already decided I couldn’t.
Don’t you remember why we got together?
We were both broken…
And somehow we were the first two people…
Who didn’t care.

Final Chorus
You turned left and kept on walking,
And I watched you go without a fight,
No last attempt, no looking back,
No “Maybe we should try to make this right”.
I lost my dogs, I lost my home,
Lost the only heart that ever felt like home.

And they say that time is supposed to heal,
But some wounds don’t care,
They reopen on nights like these.
You said you’d never give up on me,
After all those Sundays on your knees,
But you gave up when I finally changed.
And that’s the part that never fades.

I can tell you’re angry,
Though I don’t know why,
The way you talk down when you see me,
The way you say you’re happy,
With a smile that looks like makeup on your face.
And out of the corner of my eye,
I see the bottles piled up in your bedroom,
Like nothing’s changed…
Except I’m not there on your mistake days,
To take care of you.

Outro
The house is quiet Sunday mornings,
No paws against the bedroom door,
No crying in my arms,
No promise that we’d make it through the storm.
Just me, learning how to breathe.
In a life you couldn’t wait to leave.
And if you ever wonder where I went,
I’m still here,
Just not the man you left.
I’m everything you wanted,
But couldn’t get.