What a Way to Live

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Well, I hear you haven't learned a thing yet doll face I hear still you haven't learned to shut your mouth I've heard your ugly accusations up and down the state I see you still don't know what you're talking about Well anyone that knows me won't believe you Anyone that doesn't doesn't care And anyone that spends a little time with you Will soon realize you're not completely there [Chorus] And you've never been nice And you've never been wrong You've never been loved You won't let nobody in You've been mad at the world too long And you never forget And you never forgive But you'll never know A moment of peace in your life like that Man, what a way to live [Verse 2] We never really had that much in common It was a mismatch any common fool could see But you told me God had sent you How could anyone argue with that? At the time I figured you knew him better than me Yeah, and you started off so well behaved you fooled me You never raised your voice or made a slip Oh yeah, you started off the sweetest thing 'til the coast was clear Then you let your past out of that cage And I wound up needing a chair and a whip [Chorus] No, you've never been nice And you've never been wrong You've never been loved You won't let nobody in You've been mad at the world too long And you never forget And you never forgive But you'll never know A moment of peace in your life like that Man, what a way to live [Verse 3] Yeah now the way I see it You made seven serious mistakes Yes, in eight ways did you blow it pretty bad You started off believing that my patience was unending Mistook my kindness for a weakness Broke us up with your bare hands Yeah but my love doesn't have my kind of patience Yeah my poor wife's so frustrated Sometimes she beats you up in her dreams You see she had someone like you in her past And he caused a lot of damage She says your lies and your jive and your general vibe Just make her want to scream [Verse 4] Me, I tried to just forget you and get on with it I've tried to live my life and let you be I've learned from my mistakes And let the past bury the past I can't believe that after all these years You're still trying to get even with me Yeah, you're way out of control like an explosion And you're completely out of line, leave us alone People break up all the time without declaring holy war You've become one of the very few people in my life That I wish I'd never known [Chorus] 'Cause you've never been nice... And you've never been wrong You've never been loved You won't let nobody in You've been mad at the world too long And you never forget And you never forgive But you'll never know A moment of peace in your life like that Man, man oh man What a way to live