All The Mistakes That He Made About The Girl

Lyrics

All the mistakes that he made about the girl Don't bother him as much as everyone thinks All the mistakes that he made about the girl Are different from the mistakes he makes when he drinks And I'd bet you'd like to think he's got so many regrets But the way he sees it, he did nothing wrong Nah, a man has many loves, a man moves on, a man forgets And if there's anything else to say then I guess he writes a song Okay, so all the mistakes that he made about the girl According to her were unforgivable But the anger and the objects he would hurl Were not the things that made life unlivable No, the absolute number one thing Was she'd melt every time that he'd sing And she'd tell him she loved him and he would just play 'Cause if he wasn't singing he just couldn't say And she couldn't handle that he was that way I guess those are the breaks I guess there were mistakes All the mistakes that he made about the girl Weren't all that bad when compared to other men All the mistakes that he made about the girl He understands when he picks up his pen So what if he had trouble letting down his guard It wasn't his fault she was so quick to feel And maybe he'd been hurt, maybe he'd been scarred Or maybe he was just afraid of what was getting real And the absolute number one thing Was she'd melt every time that he'd sing And she'd tell him stop hiding behind what you play She'd ask "what are you scared of" but he wouldn't say He just banged and yelled "louder" 'till she went away, hey, hey I guess that's all that it takes And yes there were mistakes But it doesn't matter anymore Because she's not coming back No, she's not coming back And it doesn't matter anymore All he can hope to do Is use the experience to Try to understand why what he did left the girl brokenhearted But instead he'll just use it as fuel to keep writing his song Before long he'll be back where he started All the mistakes that he made about the girl He finds himself thinking about a lot these days All the mistakes that he made about the girl Keep fucking with his life in such surprising ways And he likes to think that if he had to do it again He could fix the things that he did all wrong And he's not the same as he was back then And then he goes back to his stupid song But the one thing that's totally clear Is he wishes she was still here And he tries to be different, he's still out of touch And his current relationships prove just as much And his songs and his words, they still serve as his crutch And even those are a lie 'Cause he don't use the word "I" Nah, this man hides behind "he" Well, that's what I would do if it were me But it's obviously not And that's all that I got