A Case of You

I got the rundown on you

The last woman who left you

She left a--

She left a manifesto

All about you

And how baaaad you are

And how dumb anybody

Would have to be

To love you

I wish I could have told her

That the quickest way

To make a woman

Love another man

Is to warn her against him

Now I don’t know

What you did to that poor lady

But she was pretty broken up

And the more she broke

The more I wanted to see

The thing that broke her

You religious?

I’m not

But I believe in the devil

Because I don’t think

You have to believe in anything

To know that somewhere out there

There’s something bad

That comes in and out of us

And makes us…

Makes us not our best

I’m not coming to look for you anymore

Not in these bars

Not on the streets

Not--

I want to sleep at night

I want to sleep well

I want to…

You saying you’re gonna love me

And making me believe it?

I thought that was going to be enough

But what’s your love worth

When it comes with all this--

This bullshit, you know?

There were all these years

When I could have you done you proud

But I’m not that way now

I don’t have the patience for it

And me telling myself

That you need me

To keep you alive

Just isn’t stacking up anymore

Because we both know

That you’ll put me in the ground

Long before you ever get there

That’s what that woman

Was warning me about

You go right up to the edge

And everybody else falls off

Trying to pull you back

It’s not your fault, you know

It’s how you judge love

It’s how you judge everything

You ask people to sacrifice for you

And they can’t ask the same

Because you don’t love anything

So what would you give up?

Love someone all you want

But if there’s no room in your suitcase

When the time comes

To pack up all the shit

You both love

Then what’s the point?

Because I got room for you

But you don’t even

Own a suitcase

I wish they could stop planes

Like they stop trains

And just let people off
Without a ticket

Or a plan

Not talking about

Connecting flights

But just little stations

Where you can jump

And not know

What you’re jumping into

That’s how I jumped into you

And that’s how I want to

Jump out of you

Fast and easy

With no time

To think about

What was going to happen

To you

With me gone

Just me worrying about myself

And nobody else

I had to start, right?

I had to start

Sometime