You fake a smile and bat your eyes

Pretend it’s easy breaking ties

But no matter what you say

You can’t hide what you’re feeling

Time after time you still do it

And everyone else can see through it

It’s the crutch that you hold to

It’s the thing that you won’t do

Through the smoke and fake lights you search for another

Wasting all your time on these one night lovers

Still can’t figure how you hurt yourself again, again

Yeah, I could show you love

I can give you my time

You can wander in the dark

Or we could make things right

But you keep turning away and wonder why you never win, again

You tell yourself it’s worth your while

And spend your days in such denial

Cause the love that you're giving

Ain’t the same that you’re getting

Every time you say that it won’t end the same way

But the trick that you fall for

Is the same that you find

Through the smoke and fake lights you search for another

Wasting all your time on these one night lovers

Still can’t figure how you hurt yourself again, again

Yeah, I could show you love

I can give you my time

You can wander in the dark

Or we could make things right

But you keep turning away and wonder why you never win, again

Through the smoke and fake lights you search for another

Wasting all your time on these one night lovers

Still can’t figure how you hurt yourself again, again

Yeah, I could show you love

I can give you my time

You can wander in the dark

Or we could make things right

But you keep turning away and wonder why you never win, again