Because We Had To

Well you were wrong about the way You said my memory would change Day after day, you claimed I'd find it inside of me to grow Away from the pain And the shame and the guilt And the questions Wondering what did I do wrong To you, to decide it was time to go Because we had to Because I tried the best that I could To have and to hold you In the way I knew that I should And we'd still be breathing darling If I did the little you asked of me But I couldn't, so now we're nothing at all The way that the night came down You were alone in your room With somebody else But you were too big, and bold in my eyes And I was to cowardly to call all your lies Well I didn't know not telling the truth Would cost me my soul, and most of my youth So with you I stayed in spite of myself And I don't know why Because we had to Because I tried the best that I could To have and to hold you In the way I knew that I should And we'd still be breathing darling If I did the little you asked of me But I couldn't, so now we're nothing at all Why would you roam when you knew That I'd always be coming back home, alone, to you? You knew that I never, ever, ever, ever Would have done that to you Still you did Because you had to But still I tried the best that I could To have and to hold you In the way I knew that I should And we'd still be breathing darling If I did the little you asked of me But I couldn't, so now we're nothing at all And when we were younger And our hearts outpaced our wits It was better and I preferred to live in the ignorance In the bubble that you built with a fake facade In the guise of another Well you sold lies and I bought them all