How to Write a Song

Listen up here for a moment
And I'll tell you how to write a song
First thing you need to do is find a girl, and fall in love
Give her everything you have
Until you just can't give her any more
Then when she walks out the door
Everything that matters will be gone
But you'll know how to write a song

Might help you some if you're already broken
Just a little in your core
That way you can let her in to fix you
Make you better than before
Then when you lie awake at night
It's not just her you're missing, ooh
It's that better part of you
And the things that you were hoping all along
And that's how write a song

It's a simple recipe, no need to write it down
Heartache goes in, lyrics come out
One's a producer, and one is a product of pain
But in the end they are one and the same

Let her make those memories
That burn forever branded in your mind
Go on and make those plans together
'Bout how you'll spend the rest of your lives
Well in the end she'll take the future with her
Just as surely as she took the past
And when your words are all the company you have
As you lie awake just waiting for the dawn
Well, that's how to write a song

You can't cross the bridge without paying the toll
There's a cost to everything in this cold world
And if you haven't learned the hard way
That the price of the future is the past
Take it from someone who has
Believe me I wish that I was wrong
But that's how to write a song