Oh the stairs I scale To my one storey jail Will be nothing For there's an arm on which I'll lean And the arm will repay Every debt that was in its name Oh, on the day that the boys come home Those that don't feel the sun Beating down on their body numb Will know the heat on the day that they are cooking Those whose lights run strong With no hint of interruption Will know the dark when the boys come home As for those who look like us Managing our will into the dust Who withdraw when the lights have been turned on On their pitch-black nights There'll be a flame flickering alight As they're made to cross all of the bridges they're burning How I wonder what they'll say What they'll feel and to whom they'll pray Oh, on the day that the boys come home Move this pile of clothes Let me rest my bones For there'll be one less day Till the day I'm promised As I lower my eyes Counting down all of the lies Yes, one less day till I can see grown men made honest And the only fear I have Is that my rage fade before I can See that day that the boys come home

You used to hold my soul Oh, you held my soul You used to have control Oh, you loved me so We used to roam around You used to kiss my mouth Now you never come around Oh, you never come around 'Cause I can't change Anything about me But I won't blame Anything on you 'Cause we were halfway to Houston and I didn't care Still smell your lips, I still taste your hair And I did not love you, and I'm well aware Maybe I used you but I was almost there You were gonna sink yourself Baby, it's not that deep I was gonna pull you out But you tried to leave You said, "Oh, go ahead now" I remember, I can't forget What you told me, what you said I can't help you 'til you help yourself 'Cause I can't change Anything about me But I won't blame Anything on you We were halfway to Houston and I didn't care Still smell your lips, I still taste your hair And I did not love you, and I'm well aware Maybe I used you but I was almost there I'm almost there

Never been all that wrapped up in shiny swimming pools Those material kinda lies they tell Life looks oh so well from the outside in Honeymoons don't end No what I thought I wanted let me down And I don't want it now Keep the house, keep the truck Go downtown, get too drunk Kiss a one-night stand with a butterfly on her back Take the bed where you used to lie Keep the friends I never liked And the happy ever after welcome mat But you ain't gonna get this diamond back No never ever gettin' this diamond back You can keep the dog and the Cadillac But you ain't gonna get this diamond back Well, I guess I'll just burn that dress All those fairy tales can go straight to hell Don't need you no more with this 24 carats that I'm wearin' no I don't care if you Keep the house, keep the truck Go downtown, get too drunk Kiss a one-night stand with a butterfly on her back Take the bed where you used to lie Keep the friends I never liked And the happy ever after welcome mat But you ain't gonna get this diamond back No never ever gettin' this diamond back You can keep the dog and the Cadillac But you ain't gonna get this diamond back Oh, what I thought I wanted let me down But who's laughing now? Keep the house, keep the truck Go downtown, get too drunk Kiss a one-night stand with a butterfly on her back Take the bed where you used to lie Keep the friends I never liked And the happy ever after welcome mat But you ain't gonna get this diamond back No never ever gettin' this diamond back It's in a pawn shop next to the laundromat You ain't gonna get this diamond back

29, that's when you're supposed to find yourself Start drinking whiskey from a higher shelf Stop calling your mom for help 29, you start paying mortgage instead of rent Should be picking out a picket fence Instead of wondering where it went and wondering why But for me 29 Is the year that I got married and divorced I held on for dear life, but I still fell off the horse From a Miss to a Mrs. then the other way around The year I was gonna live it up Now I'm never gonna live it down 29, by now I thought I'd have it figured out But I've never felt as lost as I do now And everybody says, "You're only 29" But I feel like I'm running out of time If youth is wasted on the young, have I wasted mine? 'Cause for me 29 Is the year that I got married and divorced I held on for dear life, but I still fell off the horse From a Miss to a Mrs. then the other way around The year I was gonna live it up Now I'm never gonna live it down Seems like everybody else is hanging on to it But I swear to God, I've barely made my way through it Oh 29 Is the year that I got married and divorced Yeah, I held on for dear life, but I still fell off the horse From a Miss to a Mrs. then the other way around The year I was gonna live it up Hey, let's just call it what it was Now I'm never gonna live it down

Midnight, you crawl back swearing you lost track How can you say that with a straight face? Your phone is glowing, you say it's no one It's funny no one calls me this late You tell me I'm crazy, yeah, I know But I gotta see how far you're gonna go The way those words roll off your silver tongue Your fabricated love's become a liability And oh, it's killing me How you stand there, oh so confidently Can't believe your look-me-in-the eye ability Your lie ability, yeah I'll give you credit, you really sell it The way you tell it, just sounds so good The poison's in the apple, the snake is in the grass The truth about a lie is that it ain't ever made to last The way those words roll off your silver tongue Your fabricated love's become a liability And oh, it's killing me How you stand there, oh so confidently Can't believe your look-me-the-eye ability Your lie ability, yeah Oh, the way those words roll off your silver tongue Your fabricated love's become a liability And oh, it's killing me How you stand there, oh so confidently Can't believe your look-me-in-the-eye ability Your lie ability, yeah Oh, it's killing me Your lie ability, yeah

Cigarettes in the ashtray Sitting on the porch Two empty bottles of Cabernet From the night before A couple of texts I wish I hadn't sent But at the time Had a good buzz, and it felt innocent Moving on is messy It ain't always gonna be a clean break, and it's okay Whatever it takes these days 'Cause heartbreak isn't sexy And there ain't no wearing it well, going through hell So give yourself some grace Moving on is messy Little black dress in the bathroom From last Friday night Thought I was ready, it was too soon God, I wasn't right Mascara stains on pillowcases Can't stop my mind From going back to broken places Moving on is messy It ain't always gonna be a clean break, and it's okay Whatever it takes these days 'Cause heartbreak isn't sexy And there ain't no wearing it well, going through hell So give yourself some grace Moving on is messy Everything's gonna be fine Everybody ain't okay sometimes You're fine 'til you're falling apart Over it, back to the start It ain't on your mind 'til you're replaying every memory Moving on is messy It ain't always gonna be a clean break, and it's okay Whatever it takes these days 'Cause heartbreak isn't sexy And there ain't no wearing it well, going through hell So give yourself some grace Moving on is messy (everything's gonna be fine) Moving on is messy (everybody ain't okay sometimes) Moving on is messy (everything's gonna be fine) Oh, it's messy