Indispensable

They didn't have to ask, I already knew
I'd find what's broken, make myself the fix
If I'm the hands you lean on, you won't leave
So I built my heart out of little tricks

I never asked for someone who could fix the sink
I just wanted someone who would sit and stay
You hand me all these favors so I'll never think
You don't believe I'd hold you if you walked away

I'll carry what you carry, answer every call
I'll be the roof above you, the net beneath the fall
I don't need you useful, I don't need you strong
I just needed you to need me back, need me all along

'Cause the only way I know how to love
Is to be the thing you can't do without
I'll be needed, always needed
Till there's nothing left of me to figure out
I never learned the difference
Between being loved and being enough
So I make myself indispensable
It's the only way I know how to love

If I stop being useful, will you still know my name
I would have stayed for nothing, you just never let me
I don't know how to be held, I only know to hold
And that's the reason, the only reason I'm gone

'Cause the only way I know how to love
Is to be the thing you can't do without
I'll be needed, always needed
Till there's nothing left of me to figure out
I never learned the difference
Between being loved and being enough
So I make myself indispensable
It's the only way I know how to love

It's the only way I know how to love
It's the only way I know how to love