How It Ends

The lights of Virginia
Are too bright to stand
So, she's walking home
With a new life in her hands

Past the dead end streets
And run down plans
She's got a good one
To follow a man

She swears that he's different
He's not like the rest
He sings in the kitchen
He's good with the kids

A few good years then it starts to hit
She put it all in but he's calling it quits

So, I've given up on believing
That everybody gets a chance
And I don't understand
Why she does it to herself
When she knows how it ends

Still I wouldn't trade it
This thing that we do
Just know it's a feeling that I never knew

I'm slow, but you're patiently walking me through
When we talk
In the dark of your room

I try to be in it
And cry, but I can't
You just cut me open
Saying that's what I am

I'm betting my fate on a line in your hand
It finally feels like a good place to land

But I've grown up on the feeling
Of falling to my knees again
So, I don't understand
Why we do it to ourselves
When we know how it ends