Interpret:

Nate Ruess

Album:

Grand Romantic

I was born before the storm
My mother placed a dozen thorns
The “sorry”s and the "take it back”s
lay silent in her folded hands


And head to headstone I just danced
oblivious to consequence
As a mourning sank into the ground
the highest branch I sought it out oh


I didn’t mean to let it go
I didn’t mean to bruise but I lost control
And what she said to me it still echoes


All your love may fade away
All you’ll become may all go to waste
so I can’t stand to hear you say it hurts
when it only gets much worse


Oh you caught me come to life
the moment when your eyes met mine
and from your bed the sun came in
and till this day it never set


But years of this and used to it
I stepped out for some cigarettes
The neon lights they called me in
Her eyes like yours just different enough


I didn’t mean to let you go
I didn’t mean to bruise but I lost control
What didn’t mean a thing destroyed us both
darling


All your love may fade away
All you’ll become may all go to waste
so I can’t stand to hear you say it hurts
when it only gets much worse


I couldn’t quite believe
the way it used to pull me down
and take its toll
I survived the laws of gravity
these jaws of brevity
I will not let them sink their teeth into my soul


All my love may fade away
All I’ll become may all go to waste
so I can’t stand here and say it hurts
when it only gets much worse


All our love may fade away
All we'll become may all go to waste
so I can’t stand to hear you say it hurts
when it only gets much worse