Story Behind The Song

you can love someone very much would do anything for them but being in love is different the feeling the want the desire the heaviness in your mind the longing when they aren't there

Song Description

Theres a difference between loving someone and being in love

Lyrics

I'LOVE YOU BUT NOT IN LOVE WITH YOU
(Verse 1)
I know the tilt of your head when you're tired
I know the shelf where you keep the spare keys
I've got the map of your heart in my pocket
And I'm calm when you're down on your knees
It's a rhythm, a pulse, it's a steady-state hum
Like a house that we've built, brick by brick, one by one
I look at your face and I don't see a storm
I see a shelter, I see a home.


(Chorus)
But see, I love you--that's the anchor in the sand
That's the promise that I'm holding in my hand
It's the quiet, it's the certain, it's the "I'll be there at ten"
It's the way we breathe together again and again
But being in love? That's a fever, that's a flight
That's the white-knuckle terror in the middle of the night
That's the vertigo, the wanting, the losing the ground
I love you is the safety; being in love is the sound
Of a building falling down.


(Verse 2)
Being in love is the sugar and the ache
It's the gamble, the panic, the heart bound to break
It's the dizzying height where the oxygen clears
And you're reckless and hungry and drowning in fears
But I love you is a garden that we've learned how to weed
It's the patience, the duty, the love that we need
To keep us from burning, to keep us from ghosts
It's the difference between the fire and the host.


(Chorus)
'Cause I love you--that's the anchor in the sand
That's the promise that I'm holding in my hand
It's the quiet, it's the certain, it's the "I'll be there at ten"
It's the way we breathe together again and again
But being in love? That's a fever, that's a flight
That's the white-knuckle terror in the middle of the night
That's the vertigo, the wanting, the losing the ground
I love you is the safety; being in love is the sound
Of a building falling down.


(Bridge)
I don't want the fever anymore
I don't want to be shaking at your door
I want the peace of knowing you're mine
Without the clock ticking on a fragile design
I've traded the sparks for a steady gold light
I've traded the chaos for surviving the night.


(Guitar Solo - Melancholic but resolved)


(Outro)
So don't ask if I'm in love with you today
That's a game for the young, for the ones who can play
I love you--that's the truth, that's the marrow, that's the bone
And I'd rather have this than to be in love alone.
Yeah, I'd rather have this.
Just you.
Just the anchor.
Just the home.