You, blowing back smoke into my eyes

Your bark stings so much louder than your bite

I try to sing it back like you said it to me

Not quite right, ‘cause my voice starts to crack

And my ears start to ring

It’s a crime you get any sleep at night

And if I could write a song that would make you cry

Like I did, make you wish you could go back in time

To the day that we met and do everything right

On a second try that I won’t let you get this time

Me, running on E in the late June heat

We don’t speak, you sleep on the couch so our eyes don’t meet

You don’t have to see the carnage and gore

Laid in our sheets, don’t think about all of the promisеs

You never meant to keep

You wеre lying through your clenched teeth the whole time

And if I could write a song that would make you cry

Like I did, make you wish you could go back in time

To the day that we met and do everything right

On a second try that I won’t let you get this time