My seventeenth summer alive nearly drove me insane.
Spent enough time away from my angel to fall for another with broken wings, crying in need...
I asked her how she was planning to deal with her pain.
She made it clear that the way she would deal with her pain would involve her pain dealing directly with me...
I took her hand, and I told her that she'd have a friend,
But that I had a love that was stronger than s***e and no l*** could replace all the trust we had built.
I tried to soothe her and silence the noise in her head,
But this beautiful creature with heavenly features just wanted to drown out the noise with me in her bed...
Turned down the most beautiful girl in my world that night;
Tried to deal with the spite I felt, being alone.
Didn't matter what kind of frustration I'd fight,
'Cause the woman I loved, yeah, she was waiting on me back home.
My seventeenth day still away brought me nothing but pain.
Hearing her voice through the crackle and hiss on the line told me there was something amiss but she said she was fine...
In some moment of weakness she needed to kiss.
And some man brushed back her hair, because I wasn't there; he put his lips to hers and she couldn't resist.
And you told me you can't be blamed for the way things changed; for the way feelings fade.
For the comfort of blissfulness all in an instant, and the distance so hard to ignore...
You wrote down the truth in a letter to send to me; an epitaph to my memory...
...well here's mine to yours.
Turned down the most beautiful girl in my world that night;
Cut off my nose to spite the face I wish I'd shown.
But I should have just done what my head said was right,
'Cause the woman I loved, yeah, she was cheating on me back home.
Spent enough time away from my angel to fall for another with broken wings, crying in need...
I asked her how she was planning to deal with her pain.
She made it clear that the way she would deal with her pain would involve her pain dealing directly with me...
I took her hand, and I told her that she'd have a friend,
But that I had a love that was stronger than s***e and no l*** could replace all the trust we had built.
I tried to soothe her and silence the noise in her head,
But this beautiful creature with heavenly features just wanted to drown out the noise with me in her bed...
Turned down the most beautiful girl in my world that night;
Tried to deal with the spite I felt, being alone.
Didn't matter what kind of frustration I'd fight,
'Cause the woman I loved, yeah, she was waiting on me back home.
My seventeenth day still away brought me nothing but pain.
Hearing her voice through the crackle and hiss on the line told me there was something amiss but she said she was fine...
In some moment of weakness she needed to kiss.
And some man brushed back her hair, because I wasn't there; he put his lips to hers and she couldn't resist.
And you told me you can't be blamed for the way things changed; for the way feelings fade.
For the comfort of blissfulness all in an instant, and the distance so hard to ignore...
You wrote down the truth in a letter to send to me; an epitaph to my memory...
...well here's mine to yours.
Turned down the most beautiful girl in my world that night;
Cut off my nose to spite the face I wish I'd shown.
But I should have just done what my head said was right,
'Cause the woman I loved, yeah, she was cheating on me back home.