Ian

I met you through some friends when my world was falling down

Your honest, handsome blue eyes turned it all around

You were patient and so wise, funny, hardworking, and kind

The gentlest kind of soul that a girl could ever find

We’d hide at Spring Cottage, safe from the winter cold

With Diesel, Zeb, and Chester, as the evening would unfold

Just sitting by the log burner, watching the embers glow

You taught me what it means to be loved, I need you to know

I loved you then, I love you still

I always have and I always will

I didn't walk away because the feeling died

I only left to find the woman I lost inside

I wanted you to have the love that you deserve

To save you from the pain and the hurt I caused first

My heart was always yours, it tore me up to part

I walked away, Ian, but you still hold my heart

We drank Mythos in the Zante sun, cocktails in the dark

Weekends out in Wales, just chasing down a spark

You on your R6 motorbike, me in my Mondeo car

Riding bikes along the coast, driving down to France so far

I remember Shakespeare houses and that lime green hotel room

Drunken nights at the Rectory, chasing away the gloom

Walking Sasha by the canal, the shopping trips we'd take

Seeing you hold her on her last night made my own heart ache

I loved you then, I love you still

I always have and I always will

I didn't walk away because the feeling died

I only left to find the woman I lost inside

I wanted you to have the love that you deserve

To save you from the pain and the hurt I caused first

My heart was always yours, it tore me up to part

I walked away, Ian, but you still hold my heart

You were everything I needed, so caring and so true

But I couldn't bear the thought of causing more hurt to you

I had to step away so you could find a brighter light

Even though it broke my soul to leave you in the night

'Cause I loved you then, I love you still

I always have and I always will

I didn't walk away because the feeling died

I only left to find the woman I lost inside

I wanted you to have the love that you deserve

To save you from the pain and the hurt I caused first

My heart was always yours, it tore me up to part

I walked away, Ian, but you still hold my heart