Let You Down

Been over every inch of skin

Both the tattooed and the porcelain

Scouted and charted every inch

Of your coastline.

But with every mile drawn to scale

From collarbone to fingernail

I find no countryside

I can claim as mine.

Oh, I'm only gonna let you down

If I decide to stick around.

And it seems with every bridge I cross

Oh, it's one more match I strike and toss

Over my shoulder

As I'm waving you goodbye.

And if there's one thing I've begun to discover it's that

There's nothing quite so fickle as a serial lover

So don't be surprised when he leaves you

High and dry.

Oh, I'm only gonna let you down

If I decide to stick around.

So I'll go but you have to take my word

That the risk of another heartbreak

Is too high for any reward.

You call it selfish well I call it safe.

I'll be the first to admit this was the cowardly way.

You'll move on with little delay.

In a month it won't matter how much I say

That I was terrified to let you down

But I know I should've stuck around.