I should have known That I'm not a princess This ain't a fairy tale I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet Lead her up the stairwell

And you deserve prison, but you won't get time You'll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars You crashed my party and your rental car You said normal girls were 'boring' But you were gone by the morning You kicked out the stage lights But you're still performing

Cross your thoughtless heart Only liquor anoints you She's the albatross She is here to destroy you Devils that you know Raise worse hell than a stranger She's the death you chose You're in terrible danger

And maybe you've reframed it And in your mind You never beat my spirit black and blue I don't think you've changed much And so I changed your name And any real defining clues And one day Your kid comes home singing A song that only us two Is gonna know is about you

Who knows, if I never showed up what could've been There goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen I had a marvelous time ruining everything A marvelous time I had a marvelous time

Combat I'm ready for combat I say I don't want that But what if I do? 'Cause cruelty Wins in the movies I've got a hundred thrown-out speeches I almost said to you

Everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman But she used to say she wished that you were dead So I pushed each boulder up that hill Your words were still just ringin' in my head Ringin' in my head ThanK you aIMee ThanK you aIMee

Flash forward and we're taking on the world together And there's a drawer of my things at your place You learn my secrets and you figure out why I'm guarded You say we'll never make my parents' mistakes

I can see you starin', honey Like he's just your understudy Like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me Second, third, and hundredth chances Balancin' on breaking branches Those eyes add insult to injury

Uh-huh, uh-huh I will always be yours 'Cause we survived the Great War Uh-huh I vowed I will always be yours

I'm laughing with my lover Making forts under covers Trust him like a brother Yeah, you know I did one thing right Starry eyes sparking up my darkest night

He got that boyish look that I like in a man I am an architect, I'm drawing up the plans He's so obsessed with me and, boy, I understand Boy, I understand

And it's a sad picture The final blow hits you Somebody else gets what you wanted again And you know it's all the same Another time and place Repeating history and you're getting sick of it

Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it I'd like to be my old self again But I'm still trying to find it After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone

And I know it's long gone and That magic's not here no more And I might be okay But I'm not fine at all Oh, oh, oh

My only one My smoking gun My eclipsed sun This has broken me down My twisted knife My sleepless night My winless fight This has frozen my ground

And when I was shipwrecked (Can't think of all the cost) I thought of you (All the things that will be lost now) In the cracks of light (Can we just get a pause?) I dreamed of you (To be certain we'll be tall again) (If you think of all the costs)

And I said 'Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone I'll be waiting All there's left to do is run You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess It's a love story Baby, just say 'Yes'.'

Whether I'm gonna be your wife Or gonna smash up your bike I haven't decided yet But I'm gonna get you back Whether I'm gonna curse you out Or take you back to my house I haven't decided yet But I'm gonna get you back

Lilac short skirt The one that fits me like skin Did your research You knew the price goin' in

So, baby, drive slow 'Til we run out of road in this one horse town I wanna stay right here in this passenger's seat You put your eyes on me In this moment now capture it, remember it

Never be so kind, you forget to be clever Never be so clever, you forget to be kind

And it was like slow motion Standing there in my party dress In red lipstick With no one to impress And they're all laughing As I'm looking around the room But there's one thing missing And that was the moment I knew

You left your typewriter at my apartment Straight from the Tortured Poets Department I think some things I never say Like, 'Who uses typewriters anyway?'

And I guess we fell apart in the usual way And the story's got dust on every page But sometimes I wonder how you think about it now And I see your face in every crowd

Ooh, ooh, he's talking crazy Ooh, ooh, dancing with me Ooh, ooh, we could get married Have ten kids and teach them how to dream

And I can still see it all (In my head) Back and forth from New York (Sneaking in your bed) I once believed love would be (Burning red) But it's golden Like daylight, like daylight Like daylight, daylight

I'm the only one of me Let me keep you company You're the only one of you Baby, that's the fun of you

And your first kiss makes your head spin 'round But in your life you'll do things greater Than dating the boy on the football team But I didn't know it at fifteen

And maybe you've reframed it And in your mind You never beat my spirit black and blue I don't think you've changed much And so I changed your name And any real defining clues And one day Your kid comes home singing A song that only us two Is gonna know is about you

Stay Hey, all you had to do was stay Had me in the palm of your hand Then why'd you have to go and lock me out When I let you in?

Next chapter How'd we end up this way? See me nervously pulling at my clothes And trying to look busy And you're doing your best to avoid me

You see I was a debutant In another life, but Now I seem to be scared to go outside If comfort is a construct I don't believe in good luck Now that I know what's what

I could go back to every laugh But I don't wanna go there anymore And I know all the steps up to your door But I don't wanna go there anymore

Fifty years is a long time Holiday House sat quietly on that beach Free of women with madness Their men and bad habits And then it was bought by me

I wish we could go back And remember what we were fighting for And I wish you knew That I miss you too much to be mad anymore And I wish you were right here, right now It's all good I wish you would

And I love you, it's ruining my life I love you, it's ruining my life I touched you for only a fortnight I touched you But I touched you

Long night, with your hands up in my hair Echoes of your footsteps on the stairs Stay here, honey, I don't wanna share

He knelt to the ground And pulled out a ring and said, 'Marry me, Juliet You'll never have to be alone I love you, and that's all I really know I talked to your dad Go pick out a white dress It's a love story. Baby, just say 'Yes'.'

So I wander through these nights I prefer hiding in plain sight My fourth drink in my hand These desperate prayers of a cursed man Spilling out to you for free

For you I would cross the line I would waste my time I would lose my mind They say, 'She's gone too far this time'

But if you can't be good Then just be better at it Everyone's got bodies in the attic Or took somebody's man We'll take you by the hand And soon, you'll learn the art Of never getting caught

You took the time to memorize me: My fears, my hopes, and dreams I just like hangin' out with you all the time All those times that you didn't leave It's been occurring to me I'd like to hang out with you for my whole life

And now I know why all the trees change in the fall I know you were on my side even when I was wrong And I love you for giving me your eyes For staying back and watching me shine

Long story short, it was a bad time Long story short, I survived

And when I felt like I was an old cardigan Under someone's bed You put me on and said I was your favorite

'cause he's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar The only thing that keeps me wishing On a wishing star He's the song in the car I keep singing Don't know why I do

I'm right where You left me You left me no, you left me no You left me no choice but to stay here forever

I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me now Flew me to places I'd never been (yeah) Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble

And for a fortnight there, we were forever Run into you sometimes, ask about the weather Now you're in my backyard, turned into good neighbors Your wife waters flowers I wanna kill her