The Good Life

Seven AM and I'm going to bed
Another night spent worrying all alone
The sun's coming up and my eyes are red
Another night waiting for you to come home
Maybe I'm living the good life you left for dead
I'll drink with friends and laugh till dawn
But let’s not dwell on what I said

Loving and being loved seem so far out of reach
It was a long time ago when I was still young
I learned the lessons life had to teach
That there’s no kind of love like the love you lose
And when it comes to luck you make your own
Or people will either use or be used
And there are those who are just abused
But there are the ones who love to live
Because they have all life has to give

Well, my heart’s giving up on all this abuse
And maybe it’s time that yours did too
Remembering the little things that made you laugh
Or the bigger things that made you scream
Whispering in my mouth when you were happy
Both of us just as content as we seemed
Yeah, we were living the good life we left for dead
Maybe we really thought it could last

So if you think it's too easy to be misled
Well, just use your ears and eyes
And say all of your goodbyes
But don't believe everything I said
Or even all the things you see
Darling, please forgive me
And the way I was bred
Now that you’re privy to my lies
You should say all your goodbyes
Because now nothing’s getting in your head

Because in the end here’s how it’ll turn out
We’ll both be looking for something
Two cars in the night with our lights out
Just wanting to put it all right
Needing to know what our lives were about
Well, I remember the night I kissed you
So hard there were tears in your eyes
And they were the color of water,
The eyes of my former lovers
When we thought to ourselves, maybe the good life
Won’t be out of reach tonight