If You Want Love

I just need some time, I'm tryna think straight

I just need a moment in my own space

Ask me how I'm doing, I'll say "Okay," yeah

But ain't that what we all say?

Sometimes I think back to the old days

In the pointless conversations with the old me

Back when my mama used to hold me

Wish somebody woulda told me

If you want love, you're gonna have to go through the pain

If you want love, you're gonna have to learn how to change, oh

If you want trust, you're gonna have to give some away

If you want love, if you want love, yeah

And as a kid I used to think life

Is moving so slow, I watch it go by

Look out the window on my bus ride

I thought the world was so small through my closed eyes

I've always tried to control things

In the end that's what controls me

Maybe that's why I'm controlling

I wish somebody woulda told me

If you want love, you're gonna have to go through the pain

If you want love, you're gonna have to learn how to change, oh

If you want trust, you're gonna have to give some away

If you want love, if you want love

The older I get, I feel like I'm always tryna save time

Talking to the voices in my head, they make me think twice

Telling me it doesn't mean it's wrong because it feels right

I'm scared that one day I'll wake up and wonder where the time gone

Talk about the past like it's the present while I rock slow

I'll sit in the living room and laugh with kids of my own

And tell 'em

If you want love, you're gonna have to go through the pain

If you want love, you're gonna have to learn how to change

I wish somebody woulda told me

If you want trust, you're gonna have to give some away

If you want love, if you want love

And I wish somebody, oh

I wish somebody, oh, oh

I wish somebody, oh, woulda told me

Woulda told me

If you want love

If you want love

If you want love

If you want love