Love You Less
About this track
This song is not about loving someone less deeply. It is about learning to love without disappearing inside that love. For a long time, I confused devotion with holding on, silence with warning, and distance with something I had to fix. I thought love meant carrying both people through the dark, trying hard enough to make something safe that was never mine to control. Love You Less is the moment that changes. It is about releasing the need to rescue, to prove, to interpret every silence, or to turn longing into certainty. It is about understanding that real love does not require possession, fear, or self-abandonment. Two people can matter deeply to each other and still need open doors. Two people can carry their own lanterns. And sometimes loving someone more truthfully means finally learning to love them less desperately. Not smaller. Not colder. Just finally free. Written & Produced by Frank Da Tank AI-assisted music and vocal performance Lyrics: I used to count your weather Like it changed the air I breathed Every silence was a warning Every distance meant to leave I built cathedrals out of breadcrumbs Called it faith instead of fear Thought if I stayed enough beside you You would finally stay right here I thought love meant never loosening Never letting go of skin But I was holding both our heartbeats Like they started in my chest So I learned to love you less Not less deep Not less true Less like I was disappearing Every time I reached for you Less like saving Less like proof Less like turning hope to truth And somehow when I opened my hands I finally saw you whole I learned to love you less To love you more You never said you’d be my home Never held yourself like stone You were carrying your own fire I kept trying to keep it warm But love is not a nervous system Trying not to lose its spark It’s two people holding lanterns Not one dragging through the dark I stopped reading every shadow Stopped translating every pause Until your quiet had no meaning I had pressed into its walls So I learned to love you less Not less deep Not less true Less like I was earning closeness Every second I held you Less like rescue Less like fate Less like love could close each wound And when I finally stood alone I stopped asking for your soul I learned to love you less To love you more You can leave and I still keep the love You can stay and I still keep myself Turns out freedom was the missing thing Not devotion dressed like loss And maybe this was always us— One afraid to disappear One afraid to be consumed And somewhere in the middle Love became a room with open doors Now I love you less Less afraid Less possessed Less like every goodbye kills me Less like every silence tests More like wonder More like grace More like seeing your whole face And if our story ends tonight Then thank you for the love I learned to love you less And because of that— I finally loved you more Not smaller Not colder Just finally free.