had a wife, had a kid, then another one
and everybody knows, they can tell something's up
no way i'm getting out and it doesn't cut

buddy tried to talk me down and i shut him up
you can't turn it off, can't turn it on
can't help who you want, how you get along

i respond to the song inside
i've been lying too long
and i'm gone


tried to dream i freed you
but i know it's see-through

i could never need you
and you can never live


look how far we dragged this
everything is madness
and my deceit and absence

are all that i can give

i really did it for love


started with excitement
just like you and i did

but we had to hide it
and i let it take hold


we can talk and listen
but there's no right decision
fairness was forbidden

when i went out in the cold

so i'm making like a tree, uprooted, burned down

chopped and screwed up, everything you've heard now
i've had young love, i've had a few loves
but if it's new love, can't it still be true love?

answerless, if you're taking it there
because i can't resist, the romance is bliss
all in the way that she stares, and maybe plays with her hair

chose to dance with this state of affairs
and i'm sorry


i really did it for love

can you feel it end

when she turns away again
can you hear the truth
though it claws and tears at you


i really did it for love


can you feel it end
when she turns away again
can you hear the truth

it claws and tears at you