I showed you where to place your hands
How to hold a heart with care
You wore my name like Sunday light
In the quiet of the air
I taught your lips my favorite prayers
How to stay when love got hard
You learned the shape of tenderness
Then you left me in the dark
Now your silence says it all
A slow tear down the wall
I built you up with open palms
You took my love then took it far
I taught you how to love
Now you love somebody else
I gave you all I was
Now I’m learning myself
I taught you how to love
You turned my hands to dust
I taught you how to love
Then you walked out on us
There’s still your sweater on my chair
Still your shadow in the hall
I reach for you in half-asleep
And find the bed too small
I hear our song in passing cars
In the steam against the glass
You were my almost my amen
A blessing I could not keep past
Now your silence says it all
A slow tear down the wall
I built you up with open palms
You took my love then took it far
I taught you how to love
Now you love somebody else
I gave you all I was
Now I’m learning myself
I taught you how to love
You turned my hands to dust
I taught you how to love
Then you walked out on us
Maybe I was not your home
Maybe I was just your door
You walked through all my careful light
Like you had been there before
And it hurts but I still know
What my heart was built to give
So I’ll let the hurt fall off me
And learn the way to live
I taught you how to love
Now you love somebody else
I gave you all I was
Now I’m learning myself
I taught you how to love
You turned my hands to dust
I taught you how to love
Then you walked out on us
Soft rain on the windowpane
I breathe in let it go
I taught you how to love
Now I teach my heart to grow
