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Loved Him More

from Burn by Stevie Rae Stephens

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I cried so much writing Loved Him More. It was extremely cleansing and very hard to write. This song is so candid, I basically explain how I wrote it in the song. Its an apology from my 23-year-old self to my 18-year old self who was hurting over a boy that wasn’t worth that pain. Hindsight can suck really bad. After being dragged through the mud by this guy for what felt like years and finding this letter I wrote him long before I got out saying all the right things was really eye opening and really painful actually. Because if I had loved and respected myself as much as I loved him, I could have spared myself a lot of pain. This song went through many stages of arrangement as well, and I cried over that too, because it was very frustrating. So I’m really happy this song turned out the way it did. I hope you enjoy it

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Digging him up from the past just to write the story
Reading every letter that I wrote every word I buried
Open up my chest open up every thought I wouldn't think
Paper comes alive ‘cause I never wrote to him I wrote to me
I'm sorry I let you fall so hard
I'm sorry I never told you "you're stronger than this"
I'm sorry I let you disregard
Every ounce of dignity that you had left
Chorus
Can't forget
I don't wanna live with regret
But I'm sorry it's true
I loved him more than you
You were right, and I'll listen next time
All of the doors you could've walked through
But I loved him more than you
Making him happy never should've been my number one
Blaming him all these years when I held the smoking gun
I held you to the wall you were stuck between the hardest place
You dared to treat you better when you told him to do the same
I'm sorry I didn't let you leave that day
I'm sorry I let him hurt you over and over again
And you knew that he wasn't worth the pain
But I broke all your bones so you'd fit anyway
Chorus
The letters say dear me, but all I heard was dear him
Begging to be free from chains that come from within
Now I know what it feels like to live and love
‘Cause I let you die once
Chorus x2

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from Burn, released November 7, 2017
Written and recorded by Stevie Rae Stephens
Mix and mastered by Zak Coffey www.zakcoffeyaudio.com
Drums by Chris Scanlan
Bass by Matthew Gin
Piano by Stevie Rae
Guitar by Greg Hanson

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Stevie Rae Stephens Nashville, Tennessee

Singer Songwriter from Northern California, BA Audio Engineering, MA Songwriting

Working towards a full-time career in music

Let me know what you think of my work! I am open to collaborations and studio/songwriting work as well ... more

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