Used to Be Lyrics

Well what did your mother say?
She said to play it safe, and store yourself away.
Well I couldn't bear to leave you out of my sight.
As I lived a thousand songs through night after night.
I hung you on the wall and there you stayed,
the starving skeleton of who I used to be.
Oh pretty flower I have picked and hung to dry,
will you ever return to life?
Oh, did you think that you'd last the winter outside?
While it's November, and all the trees have already died?
There's a s***e inside behind the glass,
where I could keep you unexposed,
you could be my enchanted rose.
So you aren't perfect anymore, well you are to me.
And with a decent share of scrapes upon our knees,
I'll hold you in my arms and there you'll stay,
and I'll go back to being how I used to be.
And when the going gets us down,
I'll hold you closer than before.
And when there's no ending in sight,
we've been down rougher roads, you know.
And every bruise that marks your soul,
they leave a deeper scar on me,
but they all help me remember who I used to be.
So you aren't perfect anymore, well you are to me.
And with a decent share of scrapes upon our knees,
I'll hold you in my arms and there you'll stay,
and I'll go back to being how I used to be.