Love Me Complicated

Love me… Love me…

Love me when I’m young
Love me when I’m old
Love me when I’m fire
Love me when I’m cold
Love me when I’m steady
Love me when I sway
Love me when I know myself
Love me when I’m afraid

I laugh way too loud
I feel way too deep
Some days I’m too much
Some nights I don’t sleep
(Love me… love me…)

I’m a saint and a sinner
I’m a hell yes, hell no
I’m the one you’d die for
And the one you can’t control
Love me complicated
Don’t love me clean
If you only want the easy parts
You don’t want me
(Love me. Love me. Love me complicated.)

Com–pli–cated
Yeah, com–pli–cated

Love me when I’m strong
Love me when I’m frail
Love me when I’m flying
Love me when I fail
Love me when I’m brilliant
Love me when I’m numb
Love me like a warrior
Love me when I come undone

I don’t disappear
When it’s hard or loud
I don’t turn to silence
Just to calm things down
(Don’t leave when it’s hard…)

I’m a saint and a sinner
I’m a hell yes, hell no
I’m the truth you pray for
And the truth you can’t control
Love me complicated
Every bruise, every scar
If you need me easy
You don’t need my heart
(Love me. Love me. Love me complicated.)

If you leave when I’m human
You never loved me
If you stay only smiling
You never saw me
Love ain’t silence
Love ain’t clean
Love is staying
When it gets mean
When the night is long
And I can’t go on
Will you carry me
Or be gone
(Stay… or go… just don’t pretend you don’t know…)

I’m a saint and a sinner
I’m a storm and a home
I’m a fire you can stand by
Or I walk alone
Love me complicated
Not halfway, not small
If you can’t love all of me
Don’t love me at all
Love me. Love me. Love me complicated.

I’m not hard to love. I’m real.