[Intro]
            
It kills me no

              
t to know this

          
 but I've all 

but just forgo

tten
            
What the color

              
 of her eyes w

            
ere and her sc

              
ars or how she

 
 got them
            
As the telling

              
 signs of age 

            
rain down a si

ngle tear is d

ropping
            
Through the va

              
lleys of an ag

              
ing face that 

            
this world has

 
 forgotten

[Instrumental]
               x2

[Verse 1]
            
there is no re

              
conciliation t

         
hat will put m

e in my place
            
there is no ti

              
me like the pr

            
esent to drink

              
 these drainin

  
g seconds
            
but seldom do 

              
these words ri

             
ng true when I


'm constantly 

failing you
            
walls that we 

              
just can't bre

            
ak through unt

         
il we disappea

r

[Pre-Chorus]
           
so tell me now
              
if this ain't 


love then how
          
do we get out?
              
cause I don't 


know

[Chorus]
              
that's when sh

              
e said I don't

 
 hate you boy
              
I just want to

 
 save you
              
while there's 

              
still somethin

              
g left to save
              
that's when I 


told her
  
I love you gir

l 
              
but I'm not th

  
e answer for 
              
the questions 

            
that you still

             
 have

[Instrumental]
               x2

[Verse 2]
        
and the day pr

essed on like 

crushing weigh

ts
    
for no man doe

s it ever wait
     
like memories 

of dying days
            
that deafen us

      
 like hurrican

es

bathed in flam

es we held the

 brand
  
uncurled the f

ingers in your

 hand

pressed into t

he flesh like 

sand
            
now do you und

  
erstand?

[Pre-Chorus]
           
so tell me now
              
if this ain't 


love then how
          
do we get out?
              
cause I don't 


know

[Chorus]
              
that's when sh

              
e said I don't

 
 hate you boy
              
I just want to

 
 save you
              
while there's 

              
still somethin

              
g left to save
              
that's when I 


told her
  
I love you gir

l
              
but I'm not th

  
e answer for
              
the questions 

            
that you still

             
 have

[Instrumental]
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[Bridge]
            
   one thousan

        
d miles away
              
there's nothin

          
g left to say
              
but so much le

        
ft that I don'

t know
            
  we never had

   
 a choice
              
this world is 

         
too much noise
it takes me under
         
   it takes me

           
 under once ag


ain

[Instrumental]
               x2

            
I don't hate y

    
ou
            
I don't hate y

         
ou, no

[Pre-Chorus]
           
so tell me now
              
if this ain't 


love then how
          
do we get out?
              
cause I don't 


know

[Chorus]
              
that's when sh

              
e said I don't

 
 hate you boy
              
I just want to

 
 save you
              
while there's 

              
still somethin

              
g left to save
              
that's when I 


told her
  
I love you gir

l
              
but I'm not th

  
e answer for
              
the questions 

            
that you still

             
 have

[Post-Chorus]
            
I don't hate y

    
ou
            
I don't hate y

           
ou   (oh-ohooh


oh, oh-ohoohoh

)
            
I don't hate y

    
ou
            
I don't hate y

            
ou, no   (oh-o

          
hoohoh, oh-oho

  
ohoh)