Blame It All On Me

-- I'm here to take the blame --

"Blame It All On Me"

Blame me for the trust issues
The issues adjusting
To trusting new men
Again, blame me

I'm here
I'm here to take the blame

I'm here to take the blame
For the mood swings
The ring I didn't give you
That made you disbelieve
In fantasy type romance
Not enough kind glances
Across crowded rooms
For not making you a groom

Go ahead
Blame me

Blame me for the crying times
The trying and denying times
The flying objects across crowded rooms
The crowd being the loud sound
Of you not talking to me
Yeah, me
Remember me?

Blame it all on me

Blame me for the family
The family I didn't give you
That hurt you so bad
That I had to hold you
At the thought of them
Before you fell apart from them

Blame me for you
Needing to recreate
Their bad habits
For not admitting
That quitting those habits
Would be more than you could take

Don't apologize
That would be such a surprise
I'd quake nearly instantly
So don't do that
Just blame me

Blame me for the drinking you
The over-thinking you
The shrinking you
The snap-at-me-before-I-could-blink you
The everything-but-the-kitchen-sink is sinking you

Blame me for all those you's
Then you won't have to do anything
To fix them or make them go away
I know you'd rather they were here to stay
And that's okay

Just blame it all on me

Blame me for the tirades
And the pride parades
The emotional grenades
The fading charades
As the relationship ended

The fences I tried to mend
That were too warped and bent
Spent hours on flower choosing
Perusing shelves for 'sorry' cards
Do you know they don't make 'sorry' cards?
Shards of those broken objects
Always reflecting in the happy times
Casting unhappy lines of light
Drawing us back into every fight
And I should have picked those shards
Out of the walls and called more often

So blame it on me
Just blame it all on me

Blame me
Like I blame myself
For not memorizing the names
Of the books on your shelf
For the self I brought to the table
For the things I wasn't able to do
For how bad I was to you
I'd rather do the penance
Keep remembrance
Rather than let that happen again

I still miss you
I still miss my friend
And rather than send you a list
Of the all the things I miss about you
I'll do you one better
I'll end all the wondering
About who was the blundering one
When our lives together
Ceased to weather the constant storms
That came raining down

I'll tell the world
I'll tell the town
It was me
It was all me

Just blame it all
Blame it all on me