Listen & feel · 4 min 58 sec
Room For Both
Let me love without choosing.
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Behind the song
A song about love without loyalty tests.
A child can love more than one person or place without that love taking anything away from anyone else. They can also learn very quickly which names, memories and feelings feel safe to bring into a room.
Room For Both speaks from the child’s imagined point of view: let my good moments stay good, let my goodbyes be complicated, and do not make me reduce one love to reassure another.
After listening
Make love safe to say.
What reaction of mine could make my child hide affection, enjoyment or grief—and how can I make room for their truth without asking them to reassure me?
When they mention somebody or somewhere they love, try one steady response: “I’m glad you could tell me.” Let their feeling remain theirs without searching it for a side.
Accessible wordsRead the lyrics to Room For Both
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Cold open
You say you’d do anything for meStand in front of anythingSo there’s one thingI need you to doLet me lovewithout choosing
Verse one
I know when not to tell youThat I had a really good dayI know when someone’s nameChanges something in your faceI know how to change the subjectBefore the room gets coldI’m getting pretty goodat carrying thingsI was never meant to hold
Pre-chorus
I love youI love them tooOne doesn’t takeanything from you
Chorus
There’s room for bothInside my heartI shouldn’t have to tear my loveinto separate partsWhen I miss themI still love youWhen I miss youthat stays trueI don’t need to choosewho gets less of meTo provewho I belong toThere’s room for bothPlease let there beRoom for bothinside of me
Verse two
If I laugh about somethingthat happened over thereDon’t make me wishI’d kept it to myselfIf I’m sad when I leave youDon’t make that mean I don’t want to goSometimes goodbye just hurtsEven when I’m headingsomewhere else I love
Pre-chorus
You see two homesI live in bothYou see the historyI just knowthe people I love
Chorus
There’s room for bothInside my heartI shouldn’t have to tear my loveinto separate partsWhen I miss themI still love youWhen I miss youthat stays trueI don’t need to choosewho gets less of meTo provewho I belong toThere’s room for bothPlease let there beRoom for bothinside of me
Bridge
You’d run through fire for meYou’d stand between meand anythingBut can you lower the armourWhen the armouris what I feel?I’m not asking youto forgetI’m not asking youto pretendI’m not asking youto stop protecting meI’m asking youNot to make my loveanother placethe fighting lives
Bridge build
You don’t have to like each otherYou don’t have to make things rightYou don’t have to share a storyYou just have to leave meout of the fightBecause loving youshould never meanI have to lovesomebody else less
Final chorus
There’s room for bothInside my heartDon’t make me break my loveinto separate partsWhen I’m happy therestill love meWhen I miss themlet me say itLet me walk between my worldsWithout learninghow to hide itI don’t need another sideI need somewhereI can just be meThere’s room for bothPlease let there beRoom for bothInside of me
Outro
If you’d do anything for meMaybe start with thisLet me loveWithout losingsomeone else for it
Spoken outro
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