1. DEBT

It's another one of those hard times

We always seem to face

Maybe you don’t realize

I try and wear a brave face

Life can be so heavy

So heavy and sad sometimes

I hope I'm not heavy too when I'm leaning on you

Baby, if I am I apologize

 

It was just after your 7th birthday

I remember it well

Repo man took my car away

Another day of hell

Aunt Mary sent you a card

Belated birthday cash

One for you, 19 for me

My own rainy day stash

The legit emergency stash

 

You know I never take nothing that I want

But sometimes I gotta take what I need

But I'll pay you back

I'll pay you back, I promise you

 

Sometimes I just can't take it

My eyes well up with tears

We're all entitled to a break down or two

I've had my share these last few years

You asked me why I was crying

So I lied & said a good friend was moving away

I won’t admit it; I feel like I'm dying

But you dried my eyes anyway

No one could take your place

 

You're such a good girl, baby

You don't deserve dealing with my shit

I'll pay you back, I promise you

I'll pay you back, somewhere down the line

 

If I'm planning on tomorrow, baby

That proves I'll ride this out with you

I'll pay you back

I'll pay you back, I promise you

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2. VOWS

Just realized I've got few more years left

Of being down - of being cool

Of being something that someone

Might want to do

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Girl, you must think it's easy

Putting up all with all of your mess

You are so used to ;laying the victim

You end up believing it

Ain't that some shit?

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I swore I'd love you forever more

But sweet baby, that was before

You got so cruel

Or maybe you're not and I made that up

To justify that I'm breaking up

Me and you

Well, what can you do?

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Promises are only something to make

If you can handle them being broken

Leaving's just one of the vows that we break

Baby it's not the end of the world

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Didn't you ever think I'd need someone

On whose lap I could lay my head

When the world was beating me down?

But I stayed in your bed

(Or so you said)

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Maybe it sounds like I'm passing blame

But love's failure's a two-man game

And that means you, too

I've counted up all my mistakes

Licked my wounds, now I'm on my way

To something new

Anyone but you

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Promises are only something to make

If you can handle them being broken

Lying's just one of the vows that we break

Baby it's not the end of the world

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I bet you tell her it's all my fault

Baby, whatever gets you off

Ain't my concern

I'm just glad that I'm free to choose

Someone else who's nothing like you

I lived; I learned

Another page, turned

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Promises are only something to make

If you can handle them being broken

Cheating's just one of the vows that we break

Baby it's not the end of the world

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3. ARMS

I’ve come a long way with you baby

But I’ve still got a long way to go

For I can say that you don’t move me

In fact I don’t really know

What it is, what it was

What it probably will always be

That makes me so scared of you

And makes you so mad at me

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Our past is just a blur, babe

The sound of a troubled ocean

We're a shell of who we were, baby 

We’re the ghost whose chains won’t be broken

I understand that we once swore forever

Technically, being at war is still being together

 

Lay down your arms

Drop your defenses

Like it was before the frost

Swallowed us up

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Something inside me is always gonna

Give you chance after chance

And so I’d rather surrender

I’m extending my hand

The only way you and I could ever do us proud

Is to take a pill & kill that bug that’s going ‘round

 

Lay down your arms

Bury your anger like it was

When we were young

And there was still a chance for us