There's only one place that I wanna be,
It's home with you, girl, so I can hear you breathe.
With your hair up like you do,
And that face that you give me when you've missed me.

And I've missed our girl so goddamn much,
I've smoked a lot and I feel so rough.
Guess this is just what I wanna do,
Keeping half-smoked smokes and singing to half-filled rooms.

I was young and irresponsible
About a year ago and it's impossible to tell
If my hands will ever warm up
I don't believe in growing up but

Look at me now, I'm engaged to be married,
I'm only 23 and I've got myself a family.
She's not mine and she never will be,
I'm reminded every day.
She's not mine and it fucking kills me,
She won't look at me that way

I was young and irresponsible
About a year ago and it's impossible to tell
If my hands will ever warm up
I don't believe in growing up

Stumbled around the block a thousand times
You missed every call that I had tried
So now I'm giving up
A heartbreak in mid December
You don't give a fuck
You never remember me
While you're pulling on his jeans
Getting lost in the big city
I was looking out our window
Watching all the cars go
Wondering if I'll see Chicago
Or a sunset on the west coast
Or will I die in the cold
Feeling blue and alone
I wonder if you'll ever hear this song on your stereo

I hope you get your ball room floor
Your perfect house with rose red doors
I'm the last thing you'd remember
It's been a long lonely December
I wish I'd known that less is more
But I was passed out on the floor
That's the last thing I remember
It's been a long lonely December

Cast me aside to show yourself in a better light
I came out grieving, barely breathing and you came out alright
But I'm sure you'll take his hand
I hope he's better than I ever could have been
My mistakes were not intentions this is a list of my confessions I couldn't say

Pain is never permanent but tonight it's killing me

I hope you get your ball room floor
Your perfect house with rose red doors
I'm the last thing you'd remember
It's been a long lonely December
I wish I'd known that less is more
But I was passed out on the floor
That's the last thing I remember
It's been a long lonely December

I miss your face
You're in my head
There's so many things that I should have said
A year of suffering, a lesson learned [x2]

I hope you get your ball room floor
Your perfect house with rose red doors
I'm the last thing you'd remember
It's been a long lonely December
I wish I'd known that less is more
But I was passed out on the floor
That's the last thing I remember
It's been a long lonely December

I've spent the end of my summer
Listening to these songs I know you don't like
I've been wondering where you are and who you're with
We used to lay on your kitchen floor at two a.m.
I was forty miles away from my house but I never felt so at home
I was forty miles away from my house

You never called before you left to move west
I was just dead weight pulling you down
I'll move forward without the person I need
When somethings fallen apart as many times as us
I can't put it back together it's not the same

You still run through my head every night
When I lay in bed

You used to cover up the cigarette burn on the passenger seat
of my car

Now there's just empty coffee cups
And long drives by myself

You used to make me feel like I could walk on water
Now most nights I'm just sinking down and down
You're the reason why I can't listen to the same songs I used to

I write songs about you all the time
I bet I don't run through your mind

I've given up on you, but it still hurts to know you're not alone
Don't worry, I'll keep out of your life and stay awake at night

It's 4am and you're keeping me from closing these sleepy eyes
Does the thought of me keep you up at night?
Like the light on the ceiling of your bedroom
Lately, my dog's the only one around that listens to my problems

It's been a lonely year [x4]

I write songs about you all the time
I bet I don't run through your mind

I've given up on you, but it still hurts to know you're not alone
Don't worry, I'll keep out of your life and stay awake at night
With just my skin and bones
It hurts to know you're not alone
I've given up on you, and my skin, and my bones

I'm driving on state lines pretending you're standing there
But I know your feet will never be where my eyes fall again
Moving on is something I've always had trouble with
But this year I swear I'll get past it

If I had a backyard I would bury all my memories of you in it
Everything that we had would die right down in the dirt

I wish I had the guts to say this to your face
But the past five years took everything I had and ripped it out of me
You used to make me feel like I was something
Now you make me feel like absolutely nothing

I want to fall asleep and wake up four years ago
We were just kids who didn't know what love was
Or what we were digging ourselves into
I want to know if you ever hear
All of these sad fucking songs I write about you

I wish I had the guts to say this to your face
But the past five years took everything I had and ripped it out of me
You used to make me feel like I was something
Now you make me feel like absolutely nothing

I know you probably hate who I've become
I'm just young and stupid,
But that's the way I always want to be
Forever a lost boy with bony knees

Forever a lost boy with bony knees
Forever a lost boy with bony knees
Forever a lost boy with bony knees

I'll paint you a picture with words “I miss her”.
We still talk like everyday
But we don't talk in the same way that we used to
I'll move on and forget you
We could never see eye to eye
But either way.

I like her 'cause she's smart, headstrong and independent,
She puts me in my place, but I don't know where I stand,
And if only I could find the words, or muster up the nerve to tell her
I'll never forget her
And she'll always have a part of me.

Don't let me go down this road again
We both know where this ends
In a storm of feeling, I'm so unappealing
I can't play these games

I like her 'cause she's smart, headstrong and independent,
She puts me in my place, but I don't know where I stand,
And if only I could find the words, or muster up the nerve to tell her
I'll never forget her
And she'll always have a part of me.

I like her 'cause she's smart, headstrong and independent,
She puts me in my place, but I don't know where I stand,
And if only I could find the words, or muster up the nerve to tell her
I'll never forget her
And she'll always have a part of me.

She'll always have a part of me. [2x]

I was falling for a girl who would ask me to come over
Just for a day, when her parents were away,
Now all I can do is lay in my room,
Fall asleep, dream of you,
Then wake up and do nothing about it

I fell for a boy who could never ever let me walk home that way,
'Cause you gotta be safe,
So hold back your views,
We're both leaving soon,
I can't fall back on you,
'Cause that's not what I do.

[3x]
She hates it when I shout these words,
But I'll still sing for you.
I'll still sing for you.
I'll still sing for you.

By the time I was your age I've give anything
To fall in love truly was all I could think
That's when I met your Mother, the girl of my dreams
The most beautiful woman that I'd ever seen

She said, "Boy can I tell you a wonderful thing?
I can't help but notice you staring at me
I know I shouldn't say this
But I really believe that I can tell by your eyes that you're in love with me"

Now son, I'm only telling you this because
Life, can do terrible things

Now most of the time we'd have too much to drink
We'd laugh at the stars and we'd share everything
Too young to notice and too dumb to care
Love was a story that couldn't compare

I said, "Girl can I tell you a wonderful thing
I made you a present with paper and string
Open with care, now I'm asking you please
You know that I love you, will you marry me?

Now son, I'm only telling you this because
Life, can do terrible things
You'll learn one day, I hope and I pray
That God, shows you differently

She said, "Boy can I tell you a terrible thing?
It seems that I'm sick and I've only got weeks
Please don't be sad now, I really believe
You were the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

Slow, so slow, I fell to the ground on my knees

So don't fall in love, there's just too much to lose
If given the choice then I beg you to choose
To walk away, walk away
Don't let her get you
I can't bare to see the same thing happen to you
Now son, I'm only telling you this because
Life, can do terrible things.

And I hear you’ve ended up fine.
And I’ve heard you’re making out alright.
I’ve heard you still don’t like the cold outside,
And I’ve heard you still got trouble tracking time.

And I heard you said one time,
That I never even fucking cross your mind.
I guess I’ll act like that’s fine,
But you should know that you cross mine all the time.

It's been three whole years of me thinking about you every day
Sometimes for hours, sometimes in passing
Saw you from the bottom of the staircase
Stood out for hours as you complained
About how you haven't seen your friends yet
That you're too drunk to stand and
You not knowing if you can love him forever

Bullshit you fucking miss me
There I said it I guess I'll talk to you in a few months
Sitting drunk on the sidewalk
I guess I'll get up
I guess I'll go for a walk
Press my shoes against the pavement
I swear this has got to be the hundredth
Time I've thought of you tonight

You weren't the only one
who thought of us that way
I spend most nights awake
Wide awake

I never thought that I
Oh I would see the day
Where I'd just let you go
Let you walk away
Where I let you walk away

Used to call you crook, called you a bandit
There ain't no other good damn reason why
my heart, it would go missing
For so many months so I was wishing that you
That you would stop pretending
Remember all those countless nights
When I told you I loved you
And to never forget it
Oh just forget it

You weren't the only one
who thought of us that way
I spend most nights awake
Wide awake

I never thought that I
Oh I would see the day
Where I'd just let you go
Let you walk away
Where I let you walk away

You weren't the only one
who thought of us that way
I spend most nights awake
Wide awake

I never thought that I
Oh I would see the day
Where I'd just let you go
Let you walk away
Go ahead and walk away

Nobody wants me back home
Nobody loves me at all
I will be dying alone

That same playground that we smoked our cigarettes on
Was the same one that we spent our lives as kids on
And when I say kids I mean little kids
Because we still are kids we haven't grown up yet
John and Nick got hooked Nick for a little bit
And to this day John swears that one day he'll quit
And I believe in him just like I always have
Because when we were 12 we did the things we said.

Nobody wants me back home
Nobody loves me at all
I will be dying alone

There was that one time Steve drove our old van into
The side of our old house there was nothing to do
Except to sit and laugh and think about how mad
Our fucking Mom would be when she made her way back
She was at Donna's house that's where she always was
I'm not complaining though it only helped our cause of
Sneaking out and finding out that the mall wasn't all it seemed to be.

Nobody wants me back home
Nobody loves me at all
I will be dying alone
Nobody wants us back home
Nobody loves us at all
We will be dying alone

Whoa whoa
Is there something wrong with me
Whoa whoa
There's nothing wrong with me
Whoa whoa
We had no place to be
Whoa whoa
I still got no place to be at all

Is there something wrong with me

Nobody wants us back home
Nobody loves us at all
We will be dying alone

My heads not straight and my throat it feels slit
I'll watch it fall right off and stomp the hell out of it
Cause I've gotten so tired I'm wired to fail
And my friends are the same my fucking friends are the same
These nights are long but they're keeping me from
All my awful dreams all my cynical thoughts
I'll break down in the front of an old parking lot
And get help when I'm gone
I'll get help when we're done