To The Bone

Don't give me no more goddamn pain
Baby, the time has turned the tide
I didn't need no ball and chain
I got the numbers on my side

I... didn't want to love you
I... swear to god it's true
I... don't like dreaming of you
But i... but damn my soul, i do.

Y'see, i got hit so hard, i thought i was dyin'
Then i fell so far, i thought i could fly
Darling from the start, if somebody's lying,
Double-cross your heart, and don't even try.

Because i... sure don't want to need you
I...'d hate to count on you
I...'m tired of going crazy, anymore
But i... but damn my soul, i do.

Don't give me no more goddamn pain
Baby, the time has turned the tide
I didn't need no ball and chain
I got the numbers on my side.

Well, i guess you know
You took me by surprise
When you told me that you'd broken all the rules
And the future felt as empty as your eyes
When i realized how far i was from you.

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But they tell me that the truth'll set you free
>from the sad confusion of your lies
And it led me to a side of you that i'd refused to see
So i guess it's been a blessing in disguise

So there's nothing left to keep us holding on, now
To the mystery we used to be before
What we ever shared together there is gone, now
And what might have been don't matter anymore.

Chorus:
But they tell me that the truth'll set you free
>from the sweet illusion of your lies
And it led me to a side of you that i'd refused to see
So i guess it's been a blessing in disguise

I got a day without nothing to do
And a "do not disturb" on my door
I sorta looked for some mess that she'd made
Or her sweet little socks on the floor
But all that she left here was too many rooms
And just enough silence to break
And i can't look at her picture right now
Time's about all i can take.

Last night i sewed up her toys that were torn
And packed her suitcase again
She looked so sweet as she lay there asleep
Smiling and holding my hand
We didn't talk all the way to the plane
But she's too big now to cry
Then when i kissed her, she held me so tight
I couldn't tell her goodbye.

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She said, "i wish that we lived together again
It gets so lonesome apart
I'm missing somebody all of the time
Daddy, it's breaking my heart"

It's not so bad out here living alone
Comfort's a stranger away
And there's a freedom you find on your own
That's nearly worth what you pay
It's just a shame she still wants us to be
All that we seemed to before
But we can't blame her for making believe
Something we don't anymore.

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She said, "i wish that we lived together again
It gets so lonesome apart
I'm missing somebody all of the time
Daddy, it's breaking my heart"

Go on, girl, take your chances
See how long you can go on from man to man
I can read the lines between your stolen glances
And i know it's time to fold this losing hand
'cause you're drawn to the flame
By the thrill and the shame
Of the cheating game they taught you how to play
But there's a price to that high lie you're living
And you've still got the devil to pay

Join your friends, while you got 'em
'cause you know you're getting older every day
You can't wait to let 'em take you to the bottom
And i'm getting tired of standing in your way
But when you hit the ground
Don't go lookin' around
For the pieces of the love you threw away
That's just a part of the high cost of leaving
And you've still got the devil to pay.

You've been flying so high for so long that you lied
To yourself now, most of all
Baby, all that you needed from me was the freedom to fall.

When your bright lights are gone
You'll be standing alone
And forsaken in the naked light of day
And you'll know that it's all over but the dying
And you've still got the devil to pay.

Darling, the seasons are changing
See now, the leaves, how they die
Love needs no reason for ending
Come kiss your baby goodbye.

Darling, the last time you lied, was it really the last time
Have all the tears that you cried simply dried up and gone
All in the world you can hurt anymore is my feelings
What ever love ever was, never lasted too long.

Maybe the best of our life was the beautiful dreamin'
That conscience was destined to crumble like castles of sand
All there is left of our love is a little girl's laughter
Let her keep making believing as long as she can.

Now and again i still hear some old song, i don't want to
Is it the same over there where you found your new friends
Sometimes at night i still wake up and feel something missing
Maybe i'll never believe in forever again.

Darling, the seasons are changing
See now, the leaves, how they die
Love needs no reason for ending
Come kiss your baby goodbye.