Summer Nights

I won't let you get too close
I'm addicted to being alone
All the scars were etched in me
By forgotten memories

I'm too old to let it go
Lost inside a setting sun
That's burned away what's left of me
The quiet boy I used to be

The wolves in my head won't stop
And the bills keep adding up
I guess it's how it will always be
But it's killing what's left of me

We never really had enough
It forced a kid to be grown up

You walked away from us that day
You lied and threw it all away
You just threw us both away
You just threw it all away

The summer nights are haunting me
It's so hot I can barely breathe
Get in the car and run away
Burn down the house
We'll find a way

Nothing is really how it seems
A small fire is all we need
We'll start again some other place
Where the nights won't keep us awake
The summer nights won't keep us awake

She works all day a job she hates
And cleans big houses until late
But it still isn't adding up
The landlord has had enough

She knocks on doors every other week
Selling phone books for cheap
Her sister says that she has it easy
Her mother hates her 'cus she isn't
Who she wants her to be
The words, they burn her like gasoline

The summer nights are haunting me
It's so hot I can barely breathe
Get in the car and run away
Burn down the house
We'll find a way

Nothing is really how it seems
A small fire is all we need
We'll start again some other place
Where the nights won't keep us awake
The summer nights won't keep us awake

Your words fall short
You know they do
The lies you told
They haunt me still

And after all
We have been through
I'm all alone
Because of you

Because of you (summer nights won't keep us awake)
I'll just become somebody else