Someone

I wish I could just feel okay
Without a few drinks simmering inside
Take the frames off your walls
That wood won't ever look the same
I don't know how you faked this for so long
I can't even fake a smile
You ran away to some girl with blue eyes
I wonder now if she knows your lies
I never once ran away from home
Only back here when things got hard
I sometimes miss that camo-covered man
The hometown hero who still loves me anyways
How can he see right through me
Yet embrace me and all my holes
That I've fallen into, every damn day
My mom keeps promising it'll be okay
I hope you feel guilty for everything you did
I think you might have broke my heart
Not in the metaphorical sort of manner
But the kind you just can't fix
A boy asked me out today
Since when did text messages become the way
What happened to the gentlemen
The flowers, and picking me up in your truck
Someone just open a damn door
Someone just hold my hands
Someone take care of me, just once,
Promise me it'll be okay
I'm sick of lighting candles, spending my nights
With a bottle of wine and Ryan Adams' songs
To ease this pain, erase your memories
But I wake up and it's still just the same
Someone take me out of here
Someone write for me
Someone told me that my songs were too sad
Then someone needs to give me a reason to breathe
My sister tells me what her world has become
And I swear it'll never be that way again
I will never promise a man I'll always stay
They just take advantage that way
No one is ever going to read down this far
And maybe this isn't as well-written as I'd like
But this old cd is on repeat in the background
No amount of ink will drown this out
Someone say you need me
Someone sit on my porch
Someone once promised me forever
And now someone is all gone
I once drove too fast down Graves Road
Late at night, after a few drinks
In my old Ford, to see your face
And make sure that you were okay
I once told my mom I was at my best friends
Just to sleep in your arms
On your mattress, lying on the ground
Of the bedroom loft at your parents house
I wrote you songs. I pet your cat.
I spent days with your sister
Giving her advice on the boys in school
I bought your sister-in-law a Christmas present
I held your hand when you cried
Someone ask him why he lied
Someone tell him you killed her inside
I refuse to let you know I'm weak
But sometimes I still just cry
You won, you won, you broke the girl
Who broke down all her walls to love you
Someone hit him in the face
Someone put your hands around his throat
Someone tell him he ain't that big
Nor is he as cute as I swore he was
I don't know how to end this
Somehow I let you walk away with my all
Even after I brought you all your things
You still kept my clothes
It's just like you to take my things away
It's just like me to give you too much time
So let's somehow make this the end
I'm all alone now and I feel just fine
Someone tell him this is ending
Someone end this with me.

Come Down

Sitting on my same old bed
Listening to the mixtape you sent
It's been a year
Why are you still haunting here?
Remember when I promised
There would be no more words
But in these songs, you're all I heard

I'm still alone in this smalltown
His love, it wasn't what I thought I found
It's been a year
Since I dropped my last tear
Out in your parking lot
Down the street from where we worked
I can tell you now, it still hurts

And I don't know why I can't just seem to let go
My daddy swears it's a flaw
Hold my faults up, yes, she's still in your life
And nothing really has changed
I threw rocks at your bedroom window once
And everything must come down
I guess I just need to come down

I hate the memories of his truck
The thoughts of dirt roads & lover's luck
I hate memories of our roadtrips
And the taste of our first kiss
He hated your ghost
And I hate his now
Why can't this all just slow down?

And I don't know why I can't just seem to let go
My daddy swears it's a flaw
Hold my faults up, yes, she's still in your life
And nothing really has changed
I threw rocks at your bedroom window once
And everything must come down
I guess I just need to come down

So I un-pin your pictures from the corkboard
Hanging in my bedroom at my parents' house
I had to come back here to run away from being free
And I thought in his love I had found everything
But I found nothing

And I don't know why I can't just seem to let go
My daddy swears it's a flaw
Hold my faults up, yes, she's still in your life
And nothing really has changed
I threw rocks at your bedroom window once
And everything must come down
I guess I just need to come down

All I Really Need

I just wanted all your attention
Just for a second, pretend your mine
I don't want to fall in love again
Just wanted someone to fill the time
I know you're never going to be the one
Just wanted one person to hold onto
If you could just fill in this loneliness
If you could just pretend it's me and you

I know you have your own battles
I know you sit in the dark at night
I know how you feel the emptiness
I know you just want to do what's right
Don't you ever just want to feel that heat?
I just wanted you for my soul's sake
I didn't want you to be my boyfriend
I just wanted to feel you til I break

So just lie here
And just call me
Just say I'm all you ever need
Just lie to me babe
Just one more time
This is all I really need

I just wanted all your attention
I wanted your late night phone calls
The texts begging me to be by your side
The words pretending all your falls
I know I'm nothing like your type
I probably smile just too much
So don't believe that I'm falling now
So don't think I'm in too much a rush

I feel the black on your skin
From the bruises every dumb girl gave
You just wanted what I wanted more
Let's just lie here in your silly cave
Making shadows on your walls
Faking every single brown eye stare
Let's just hold onto each other tonight
Why can't we just pretend to care?

So just lie here
And just call me
Just say I'm all you ever need
Just lie to me babe
Just one more time
This is all I really need

So just lie here
And just call me
Baby, you're all I'll ever need
Just lie to me babe
Just this one time
This is all I really need

I smell the smoke coming off your skin
Don't ask what all I'll give in

So just lie here
And just call me
Just say I'm all you ever need
Just lie to me babe
Just one more time
This is all I really need

Athens

Just like an old country song
Woke up, knew something's wrong
I ain't where I'm supposed to be
Who's that breathing next to me?
Don't know where my old jeans went
Don't wanna know the rules I bent
Try to find my phone, but it's just dead
Just wanna go home, get out of this bed

I don't know where I am right now
But that it's a short, short ride back to that college town

Thank you Athens, for the headache again
All the regrets running through my head
Don't know why I keep comin' here
I know it ain't all the cheap beer
My friends and I, acted like fools
Don't know how I ever made it through school
I know, in two days I'll forget these mistakes
And come back to Athens, and the rules it breaks

Found my jeans under the nightstand
Tried to walk out, but I don't think I can
Is this a trailer? I think it's a doublewide
Don't even want to walk outside
That sun is banging on my brain
Noticed on my shirt a Natty stain
Where's my best friend? Get on up
Gotta get out of here in their truck

I don't know where I am right now
But that it's a short, short ride back to that college town

Thank you Athens, for the headache again
All the regrets running through my head
Don't know why I keep comin' here
I know it ain't all the cheap beer
My friends and I, acted like fools
Don't know how I ever made it through school
I know, in two days I'll forget these mistakes
And come back to Athens, and the rules it breaks

This Georgia town ain't that bad in June
Just wait til football season, you'll wake up and won't be able to move

Thank you Athens, for the headache again
All the regrets running through my head
Don't know why I keep comin' here
I know it ain't all the cheap beer
My friends and I, acted like fools
Don't know how I ever made it through school
I know, in two days I'll forget these mistakes
And come back to Athens, and the rules it breaks