Leaving After the Fact

I've been on the road for days
I left town the moment I found your letter
Breaks have started grinding down
Don't know how much further I'll make it.

Passing states in Eastbound lanes
Through the desert, towns start to look the same
Road is silent, let's me think
But thinkin's not something I wanna do right now

And I can't forgive you
And you know that I can't absolve you
It's the last thing on my mind

You hurt me more
Than the fiberglass inside my lungs
I keep breathing
But it seems I just can't get enough
Night or day
The only thing that I can see is your eyes
Oh, my God, I think I'm breaking up

Where's the meaning
To a life that can change with the wind
What's my worth
If I can be thrown away and
Gave doubt to me
So I'm gonna give it back to you
Isn't that what a gentleman would do

Now, isn't that what a gentleman would do

I pull into a dusty lot
Vacancy sign burns like a midnight sun
No cards for keys in places like this
Cold metal slips in my sweating palms

Open on a dusty room, an untold history
Witness to everything
Later in a hotel pool
She said her name
But all that I heard was noise

And I can't forget you
You mean too much
But I can replace you
With every person I touch

She's in the bathroom
Getting ready in the fluorescent glow
Such an ugly and distracting
Way to kill some time

On a bed where the sheets smell stale
I try counting stars
But the stucco seems infinite
She's moving closer
There's no other place that I'd rather be
Than a room that's out of focus
Cause that's "Good Enough for" me

What we lack in years
We make up in experience
And we just can't seem to get enough

Well isn't that
Now isn't that what a gentleman would do

I let them tie me up
The beasts of Arizona
The children of the desert
The faceless and all the unnamed.

I let them take me down
The pits of human nature
The sweaty and the wrong
The breathless and all the unlcean

I hear them sigh their pain
The ones that came before me
The broken and the hopeless
The starving and all the restless.
They start to break me down
I feel me fall to pieces
The children of the desert
They are mine
Now they call me Father

You hurt me more than
The fiberglass inside my lungs
But it seems I just can't get enough

And night or day
The only thing that I can see is your eyes
Oh, my God, I think I'm breaking up

They are all mine
And they call me father
They are mine