It took me a day to fall in love

A few weeks to say

Those three words

 

It took a month before I had let you in

Into my heart

And into my bed

 

It took a year for us to have our fun

We had our laughter

And some days

We had none

 

It took you a night to make her fall

It took you a night to show me

I should never have loved

At all

 

It took me a few weeks to know

To know you had lied

It took me a few weeks to realize

Why I felt so sick inside

 

It took me a month before I found the truth

Even if you hadn't loved me

I had loved you

 

It took me a day to get my things

A few minutes to speak my mind

A few more to gather shattered memories

More to find shards of my broken heart

 

It took me a week to write this down

A week to think

But not speak out loud

 

It took me a week to go back home

A week to feel just as alone

As I had always been

Before you changed my life

 

It took me a week to sort everything through

To box up all I ha of you

To go through all my things

 

It took me a week

But I made it through

 

And now, here I am

In no sight of you

 

 

It's taken me time

And I'm going to take

So much more

 

Because you never gave

And I never had

The choice of time before

 

 

You were everything

And now I'm gone

 

You wanted a wedding

And now I'm gone

 

You wanted kids

And then you slipped

Into her arms

 

And now I'm gone

 

 

It's taken me time

But, oh,

I'm going to need

So much more

 

But for right now

I am up

I am off the floor

 

I can't let you

Let me down

Anymore