love somebody

.two weeks from my 21st birthday I

met a girl making coffee at a cafe

spent every night together after the first date

my world in her hands

I remember getting called from my best friend

said he saw her out in the back of a black benz

making out with some guy with an accent and

ever since then

I kept my heart under lock and key

out on an island out of arms reach

cuz if nobody’s close nobody can hurt me

I never knew that I could love somebody

until I loved somebody

you came in like a medic on a crime scene

like the warm sun when you wake up from a bad dream

so soft and so sweet I was unprepared

I kept my heart under lock and chain

but you found a way in that I can’t explain

feels like the first time that I can honestly say

I never knew that I could love somebody

until I loved somebody

I never knew that I could love somebody

until I loved somebody

somebody like you

I was a lost soul tainted by the hand of someone

who tore my heart into pieces in the name of love

until you came along and picked them up one by one

again and again