I tried to take it all in
When you told me you let her in
What to say as you toss love around
Like a ball lying on the ground

That sense, when I recall it
My breath pulled inside out
It’s one of those moments
If I had only turned around

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The price we have to pay
As we try to walk away
I’ll lay my sins on the table
Give all I have, all I’m able
Can’t you see past that wall
How do you do it, so stoically tall
How it’s me you hated
For the crimes you created
You won’t meet me halfway
Oh, baby, the price we pay

If I had just turned around,
If only to avoid the words and you
But it sticks here
Here in my memory like glue

But we never stopped to face it
How I wish I could replace it
So we set it to the side
Misguided in thinking time would hide

Time passed and winters to springs
Kept it hidden under skin grown thin
Lonely in the need to know
How could ours dare to grow

Wondered late at night
What if you held me tight
Deep in the night a few
But God knows, I am not going to beg

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So time went by
The rules slowly changed
But we sowed those seed well
And they rooted in to where they fell

To wish the hurt away
But it still feels like yesterday
I guess we learned the hard way
Why do we learn it all the hard way

So time went by, some things left undone
And I’m going to miss you
For twice as long as all tomorrows
Got to learn to swallow this sorrow

And all this heartache convoluted
Can’t seem to be erased or substituted
That sense, when I recall it
My breath pulled inside out

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