Book Beside Your Bed Lyrics

I'm leather bound

Sitting here in your nightstand

A piece of lace, it marks your place

But it ain't moved since God knows when

I got your name etched in my cover

But you don't act like I'm yours

Cuz I just keep getting buried

By the junk inside this drawer

You used to read me every night

'Fore you turned off the bedroom light

But now you're sleeping with your back to me instead

You once found purpose in my verses

That you circled every word in

Have you turned to something else?

Or did something cloud your head?

I was written to be more than a book beside your bed

I'm here if you need more than a book beside your bed

We've been through

So many years together

I've come to know what's in your heart

I only hoped to make you better

A note's still scribbled in my spine

From Christmas day when you were nine

Well, we've grown apart before

But it don't feel the same this time

You used to read me every night

'Fore you turned off the bedroom light

But now you're sleeping with your back to me instead

You once found purpose in my verses

That you circled every word in

Have you turned to something else?

Or did something cloud your head?

I was written to be more than a book beside your bed

I'm here if you need more than a book beside your bed

I fear that I can say the reasons why

You've grown afraid to pick me up

Just know I'm not the bad guy

It's their words; it's not mine

That pushed you far away in time

I hate that when they hurt you

They're hiding behind lines...

That you once read me every night

'Fore you turned off your bedroom light

Until the world made all these doubts fill up your head

I know that some used me to shame you

And I cant say that I blame you

For hiding me in here, and tryin to pretend

That I was never any more than a book beside your bed

I miss when I was more than a book beside your bed

I'm here if you need more than a book beside your bed