I’m Sorry Lyrics
"So if I say, “I’m sorry,” I know it may sound small."
I’m Sorry
Album: Loving Me
Answer song to “Forgiving Is Easy”
Emotional R&B / Lover’s Rock Soul Ballad
Intro
Holding my hand over my heart,
trying to feel what I made fall apart.
Not on my chest, but deeper than skin—
where love breaks slow
and guilt settles in.
Verse 1
I press my hand against my heart
just to remind myself you hurt.
You feel, you cry, you bleed, you break—
and I caused every trembling ache.
When I let you down, you were torn.
When I shut love out, I left you in storms.
Words can’t explain the weight of that pain,
when I threw you out
and stood in my pride and vain.
Even after
you treated me like a queen,
I traded truth for foolish things
and called it living free.
Pre-Chorus
So if I say, “I’m sorry,”
I know it may sound small.
Like I still expect your mercy
every time I fall.
But I will say it anyway,
with nothing else to hide—
I am sorry
for the rain I made you stand inside.
Chorus
I’m sorry,
not to pull you back to me.
I’m sorry,
not to ask you to forgive me easily.
because your pain is real,
and I know I broke what love was trying to heal.
If you need distance, I understand.
If you need silence, I won’t demand.
I only pray that peace will find you,
even if it’s without me beside you.
I’m sorry.
Verse 2
I know an apology
cannot rebuild your trust.
I know some damage lingers
even after truth adjusts.
I know I made you question
every word I ever said.
I know I planted shadows
where your heart once safely rested.
And if your nights are restless,
if your mind replays the pain,
I will not call your healing weakness,
I will not shame your rain.
Because loving me
should never have cost you this.
And hurting you
is something I can never dismiss.
Pre-Chorus 2
So if forgiveness finds you,
let it come in its own time.
I won’t knock on the wound
and ask it to call itself fine.
I will say what truth demands
without excuse or disguise—
I am sorry
for the tears I placed inside your eyes.
Chorus
I’m sorry,
not to pull you back to me.
I’m sorry,
not to ask you to forgive me easily.
because your pain is real,
and I know I broke what love was trying to heal.
If you need distance, I understand.
If you need silence, I won’t demand.
I only pray that peace will find you,
even if it’s without me beside you.
I’m sorry.
Bridge
If forgiving is easy,
I know getting over is not.
If loving me still lingers,
I know it still comes with cost.
So I won’t rush your process,
I won’t bargain with your grief.
I will carry what I’ve done
and let truth bring its own relief.
You were good to me,
better than I deserved.
And I was careless
with a love I should have preserved.
If you never trust me fully,
I will understand why.
Because some wounds don’t vanish
just because someone apologized.
Breakdown
I’m not asking
for your arms,
your home,
your heart,
your forever.
I’m only laying down the truth:
you loved me well,
and I hurt you.
And that will stay with me forever.
Final Chorus
I’m sorry,
for the nights I stole your peace.
I’m sorry,
for the way I made your safe place weak.
I’m sorry,
because your pain is real,
and love like yours deserved a gentler field.
If you still love me, I’ll be humbled.
If you release me, I won’t crumble.
I’ll wish you sunlight through all your days,
the truest joy in all your ways.
I’m sorry.
Outro
Holding my hand over my heart,
feeling the ache of what I tore apart.
I will say it softly,
I will say it true—
I am sorry.
And I still love you.
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