A Clean Break

Let's go back to the beginning of the story

I missed the best part in my anticipation of the end

And with relapse comes repentence so let's review and reconsider it

Let's go back to where I told you I was sorry

I didn't realize that an apology could lose me a friend

And by talking in circles we'll never know where to begin

I guess I never understood how we parted ways

I left you sitting in the dark with your mouth full of nothing to say

I guess I'll never understand just how it works

It's a give and take, it's a bend and break, it's a live and learn

It's too late for sorries now, yes, I know

I'm still hanging on, I won't let go

I'm not trying to return, I just want you to understand what I said to you

Let's go forward to the present, here we are now

And the tension is so thick that you could cut it with a knife

Our conversations are all trivial, so let's come clean and give them some life

I was thinking of the future and I'm sorry

For me to continue pretending would just feel too wrong

So I'll just continue hiding under apologies that I've laid out in my songs

Don't think that I meant for things to turn out this way

I just couldn't stand to leave you hanging for one more day

Don't think that I had planned on being such a jerk

I just couldn't take it, to keep on faking it wouldn't work

It's too late for sorries now, yes, I know

I'm still hanging on, I won't let go

I'm not trying to return, I just want you to understand what I said to you

I hate to make such a clean break because I know it hurts

I pray you take all that I gave for all that it's worth