Vermont

You told me happiness is just a moment
From the porch of your Victorian apartment
We sat outside, the air was broken, and summer was barging in

The homeless lady pushed her shopping cart
Your neighbors played mariachi music 'til 4 a.m.
You said, "This one passes, I should probably walk away

'Cause I'm gonna leave you the first chance I get
I'm a black hole, I'm empty and dead
You can carve your name in stone
But it's just not permanent"

You told me you think you love me
You collapsed on the floor of your room
After you told me to leave, in the moment
I realized I was sure I love you too

So now I'm always putting out fires with my bare hands
Two black stumps are all that remain
I don't think my feeble heart's enough
To blanket these growing flames

You can drop me at the hospital
I'll OD on morphine and dream about you
As my heart seizes one more time
Before you go, it'd go

And I'll probably wake up alone
And be alone forever
With an itch on my back that I cannot scratch
In the shape of your heart forever

'Cause everybody leaves
Everybody leaves eventually
Everybody breaks and bends too late
And no one is happy

You'd never be happy this time
When it's your heart on the line
So take a step back, 'cause who ever wanna fall in love?

And now it all plays out, and the way you call me "babe" dies with every other nickname
I have so many nicknames, I can't keep track anymore
I'll bury them in bourbon and half-smoked cigarettes
As we come to an end
Or to an understanding I don't want to understand

Because everybody leaves
Everybody leaves eventually
Everybody breaks and bends too late
And no one is happy

And you'd never be happy this time
When it's my heart on the line
Since I can't love you, why would you ever love me back?

If I can't love you, why would you ever love me back?
I don't know how to love you anymore, so please don't love me back