Count every way I've loved you

You'll need more than your fingers and toes

Count every way you've loved me

The only number that grows is the inches of your nose

You've given me 10 reasons

Not for what you think

10 reasons to leave you

Because you're the reason tears leave my eyes when I blink

10 missing assignments because you always made me skip.

9 times I've rewrote this, to hopefully have it roll off my lips.

8 times you've screamed, every decibel I felt my heart break

Please tell me, was it all fake?

7 times you've hurt me

6 times I let it slide

5 fingers to hold

But everytime I tried, all I got was a scold

4 new mascaras, I had to buy

For all those times you've made me cry

3 words, it felt like you never could say

'I love you' was all it would take me to stay

2 people it takes, to make a relationship work

But where were you when I was hard at work

1 time I felt loved by you

When you told me our love was 'true'

I see now, what I failed to before

All I was to you, was a chore

Now I know, I deserve so much more

Than to just be another shell on the shore

Count every way I've loved you

It's all I can do

I keep playing back our fights in my head

All of those tears that I've shed

Was it a waste?

All those fears I faced?

I learned so much

Just from your touch

But now it's time to go

I need room to grow

I know it's time, for me to dry my eye

For me to finally say 'goodbye'