So this tired voice doesn’t sound the way that it did,
But these misguided thoughts still swim around my head
So I go on and on, with my same old songs, about how wronged I think I’ve been,
& You’d think by now, I’d have figured out that’s not the way it is
But it’s too late to change my mind, now
I stumble into the town, that I could never wait to leave,
Expecting open arms, but you all turn your backs on me
And,
With my blood shot eyes, and a broken heart on my sleeve,
I try to explain myself, but no one cares to hear me
I keep pushing on, with my same old songs, about how wronged I think I’ve been,
You’d hope by now, I’d have figured out that’s not the way it is
But it’s too late to change my mind, now
I stumble into the town, that I could never wait to leave,
Expecting open arms, but you all turn your backs on me
My heads down, my hands out, I call out, there’s no sound,
My heads down, my hands out
This old tired voice doesn’t sound the way it did,
But these misguided thoughts still swim around my head
So it’s too late to change my mind, now
I stumble into the town, that I could never wait to leave,
Expecting open arms, but you all turn your backs on me,
And,
With my blood shot eyes, and a broken heart on my sleeve,
I’d hope to explain myself, but no one cares to hear me
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