You like your coffee
Too strong, too black
You like your women
Too quiet to talk back
I keep your boots by the back door
Your cap on the second hook
I learn the way that you like things
Like it’s scripture in a book
I laugh at your same old stories
Even when I heard them twice
Set my dreams on a small plate
Next to your chicken and rice
You say, “Baby, you’re the blessing
I never thought I’d find”
And I smile like it don’t sting me
To be the easy kind (mmm)
I’m the pleasing kind
Bite my tongue
Til it tastes like wine
Dress my hurts up
So they look fine
Turn my “no” to “maybe later”
Call it love and call it favor
You get peace and I get quiet
I’m the pleasing kind (oh, I’m the pleasing kind)
I wear that faded blue T-shirt
You said makes my eyes look green
I skip that out-of-town offer
Say this town is all I need
I hold your hand in the front seat
While you talk about your plans
You don’t ask if I got any
You just squeeze and change the band
You say, “Girl, I’d be a lost soul
If you ever changed your mind”
And I nod like it don’t scare me
How much I disappear in “mine” (yeah)
I’m the pleasing kind
Bite my tongue
Til it tastes like wine
Dress my hurts up
So they look fine
Turn my “no” to “maybe later”
Call it love and call it favor
You get peace and I get quiet
I’m the pleasing kind (yeah, yeah)
One of these nights
When the house is still
Maybe I’ll speak
What I really feel
Will you love the girl
Who won’t fall in line?
Or just miss the way
I erased my mind? (tell me)
I’m the pleasing kind
Bite my tongue
Til it tastes like wine
But I’m so tired of “I’m alright”
When I’m breaking all the time
Turn my “maybe” into “never”
Save a little piece forever
You get truth or you get silence
From this pleasing kind (oh)
From this pleasing kind (I’m done just pleasing)
I’m the pleasing kind