Mianbao - Second Place

Second Place... Check out more original songs here:    • Original Songs   Lyrics: The ceiling knows the hours that I haven't slept at all My phone is face-down beside me, but I'm waiting for your call I keep replaying every place I thought that I belonged Trying to find the exact second where I read the whole thing wrong You never made a promise, maybe that's what hurts the most I built a future quietly from moments you forgot You smiled at me so gently I mistook it for a sign While you were only passing through a place I called mine So I guess somebody had to stand outside Somebody had to watch you choose the other side He gets the way you look at him, I get the memory Love doesn't need a reason for deciding it ain't me I saw you standing next to him and understood it then The tenderness I waited for came naturally to him There wasn't any argument, no villain I could blame Just three people in a room and only two who felt the same I almost wish you'd hurt me in some unforgivable way Give me something I could hate enough to make this feeling fade But you're happy, and he's happy, so what right have I to grieve? There's nothing quite as cruel as having nobody to blame but me So I guess somebody had to stand outside Somebody had to watch you choose the other side He gets the way you look at him, I get the memory Love doesn't need a reason for deciding it ain't me Maybe there are people born to arrive a little late To find the perfect person after someone took their place To learn that being good enough won't make somebody stay Because hearts don't hand out trophies to whoever loves the same So I'll stop calling this a battle like I ever had a chance You weren't something I could earn by loving harder than that man There wasn't any finish line, no prize that I could claim You simply wanted someone else, and I wanted you the same And God, I hate how easy you look standing by his side While I'm learning how to bury everything I kept inside He'll never know the version of myself I had to lose Standing close enough to love you Not close enough to choose Tonight I'll leave the phone there and let silence have its way Tomorrow maybe loving you will hurt a little less than today I wasn't beaten, I wasn't wrong, there was nothing I could prove You just chose him And I would've chosen you