Vermont

You told me happiness is just a moment
 From the porch of your Victorian apartment
 We sat outside, the air was broken, and summer was barging in
 The homeless lady pushed her shopping cart
 Your neighbors played mariachi music 'til 4 a.m.
 You said, "This one passes, I should probably walk away
 'Cause I'm gonna leave you the first chance I get
 I'm a black hole, I'm empty and dead
 You can carve your name in stone
 But it's just not permanent"
 You told me you think you love me
 You collapsed on the floor of your room
 After you told me to leave, in the moment
 I realized I was sure I love you too
 So now I'm always putting out fires with my bare hands
 Two black stumps are all that remain
 I don't think my feeble heart's enough
 To blanket these growing flames
 You can drop me at the hospital
 I'll OD on morphine and dream about you
 As my heart seizes one more time
 Before you go, it'd go
 And I'll probably wake up alone
 And be alone forever
 With an itch on my back that I cannot scratch
 In the shape of your heart forever
 'Cause everybody leaves
 Everybody leaves eventually
 Everybody breaks and bends too late
 And no one is happy
 You'd never be happy this time
 When it's your heart on the line
 So take a step back, 'cause who ever wanna fall in love?
 And now it all plays out, and the way you call me "babe" dies with every other nickname
 I have so many nicknames, I can't keep track anymore
 I'll bury them in bourbon and half-smoked cigarettes
 As we come to an end
 Or to an understanding I don't want to understand
 Because everybody leaves
 Everybody leaves eventually
 Everybody breaks and bends too late
 And no one is happy
 And you'd never be happy this time
 When it's my heart on the line
 Since I can't love you, why would you ever love me back?
 If I can't love you, why would you ever love me back?
 I don't know how to love you anymore, so please don't love me back