All the Mistakes That He Made About the Girl

All the mistakes that he made about the girl

Don't bother him as much as everybody thinks

All the mistakes that he made about the girl

Are different from the mistakes that he makes when he drinks

And I bet you'd like to think he's got so many regrets

But the way he sees it, he did nothing wrong

A man has many loves, a man moves on, a man forgets

And if there's anything else to say then, I guess, he writes a song

'Kay, so all the mistakes that he made about the girl

According to her, were unforgivable

But the anger and the objects he would hurl

Were not the things that made life unlivable

No, the absolute number one thing

Was she'd melt every time that he'd sing

And she'd tell him she loved him and he would just play

'Cause if he wasn't singing, he just couldn't say

And she couldn't handle that he was that way

I guess those are the breaks

I guess there were mistakes

All the mistakes that he made about the girl

Weren't all that bad when compared to other men

All the mistakes that he made about the girl

He understands when he picks up his pen

Ah, so what if he had trouble letting down his guard?

It wasn't his fault she was so quick to feel

And maybe he'd been hurt, maybe he'd been scarred

Or maybe he was just afraid of what was getting real

The absolute number one thing

Was she'd melt every time that he'd sing

And she'd tell him, "Stop hiding behind what you play"

She'd ask, "What are you scared of?" But he wouldn't say

He just banged and yelled louder till she went away

I guess that's all that it takes

And, yes, there were mistakes

But it doesn't matter anymore

'Cause she's not coming back

No, she's not coming back

Then it doesn't matter any more

All he can hope to do

Is use the experience to

Try to understand why what he did left the girl broken-hearted

But instead he'll just use it as fuel to keep writing his song

Before long he'll be back where he started

All the mistakes that he made about the girl

He finds himself thinking about a lot these days

All the mistakes that he made about the girl

Keep fucking with his life in such surprising ways

And he likes to think if he had to do it again

He could fix the things that he did all wrong

Ah, that he's not the same as he was back then

And then he goes back to his stupid song

But the one thing that's totally clear

Is he wishes that she was still here

And he tries to be different, he's still out of touch

And his current relationships prove just as much

And his songs and his words, they still serve as his crutch

But even those are a lie

'Cause he don't use the word "I"

No, this man hides behind "he"

Well, that's what I'd would do if it were me

But it's obviously not

And that's all that I got