Just This Once

I miss you more than I

Will ever say out loud

I thought maybe l'd get the chance

But I'm sorry is all I have time to get out

I know that you'd come to save her

Even though it's a death wish

I'm sorry that I wasn't braver

But l'll gladly trade myself for you to live

Just this once, I'Il make the good choice

I know we both won't make it out alive

You're so stuck on self-sacrifice

Just this once, l'll be the good guy

Just this once, l'll do what's right

If only this one good thing in my life

You're worth this one sacrifice

Just this once l'll be the good guy

But images leak through the static

Desperate blue sneaks through the green

I swear l'm fighting it with everything I've got

But when I fall you follow me

The next time I open my eyes

You're on your knees, I'm still alive

But soon you're asked again

To carry the weight of the world to the end

But you're worth more than what you sacrifice

So just this once, make a different choice

Someone else can save the world this time

You're so stuck on self-sacrifice

Just this once, don't be the good guy

But it's you that I've always loved

So l'm not going anywhere tonight

I'm staying with you and we'll play the good guy

I don't want you to be noble

You promised that you'd take me home, so

Just this once

Just this once

You've never once given up

Not even when l've pulled away

But now I'm here and it's almost done

So just this once

Just this once

You've never once given up

Even from that very first day

Edges rough, but it was always love

So just this once

Stay

You turn to me, it's finally over

You can keep your promise after all

We're going home after all this time

Shocked that we both made it out alive

Now we get to tell a story

That didn't just end with a hero's sacrifice

It goes: Just this once l'll choose what I want

And just this once l'll do the right thing

And just this once l'll choose to save her

And just this once l'll sacrifice

Just this once l'll make my own choice

And "just this once l'll be the good guy