How It Ends

The lights of Virginia are too bright to stand

So she's walking home with a new life in her hands

Past the dead end streets and run down plans

She's got a good one, to follow a man

She swears that he's different, he's not like the rest

He sings in the kitchen, he's good with the kids

A few good years, then it starts to hit

She put it all in, but he's calling it quits

So I've given up on believing

That everybody gets a chance and I don't understand

Why she does it to herself

When she knows how it ends

Still, I wouldn't trade it, this thing that we do

Just know it's a feeling that I never knew

I'm slow, but you're patiently walking me through

When we talk in the dark of your room

I try to be in it, and cry, but I can't

You just cut me open saying that's what I am

I'm betting my fate on a line in your hand

It finally feels like a good place to land

But I've grown up on the feeling

Of falling to my knees again, so I don't understand

Why we do it to ourselves

When we know how it ends