I was barreling down the highway
listening to the radio in the dead of night
and in between the bursts of nonsense
and the screaming deals that I could not miss
there was a perfect song about a broken heart
that filled my body from the floorboards up to the open sky - up to the open sky

Somewhere above in the indigo darkness
the sky was coruscating in time with the music
and whoever was singing their own sadness
they were serving it up with a side of sighing
deliciously resigning them self to a life
where they were gonna be lonely forever more
-forever more
- forever more

It took me to a place where the kisses fell on deaf lips
and every sweet endearment was turned away
turned away from my ears
back to the age old question of why we fall
for the ones that are gonna tear us like paper
when they walk away - when they walk away

I was waking from a slumber brought on by a night
of treating myself to a bottle in front of me
and in between the waves that washed over the deck
I was steadying myself on any wall that would have me

a perfect song was running through my head
it filled my body from the floorboards up to the conflicted sky
-up to the conflicted sky

It took me to a place where the kisses fell on deaf lips
and every sweet endearment was turned away
turned away from my ears
back to the age old question of why we fall
for the ones that are gonna tear us like paper
when they walk away - when they walk away


somewhere below the ocean in an unmarked grave
there's a city that's buried far beneath the waves
and a box that was coming from a different age
it's hinges are rusty but they're holdin' the same

now tell me what do you think is tucked away
at the bottom of the ocean lost and forgotten
it's the broken hearts
the pieces of the broken hearts
all of the broken hearts
the pieces of the broken hearts

It took me to a place where the kisses fell on deaf lips
and every sweet endearment was turned away
turned away from my ears
back to the age old question of why we fall
for the ones that are gonna tear us like paper
when they walk away - when they walk away