There's a rhythm from his racing heartbeat,
As I lay in his arms in his old truck's backseat...

Holding a picture with tears in my blue eyes,
As I look up to the stars, cursing to the sky...

[VERSE 1]
You came home late again, sneaking in the door...

John sits and wastes away by his bedroom window,
Looking out to the dampened street with broken...

"The whispers in the wind are breaking me...
She whispers to a solemn tree with aging bark...

[VERSE 1]
I was seventeen, baby I was still so naive...

My best friend in elementary school with eyes so...
Would sit in the corner of the playground and...

Sitting on top of the roof last night, I met a...
With stars in his eyes he turned and said to me...

"You need to learn how to treat a girl...
Is what his old mama had always told him...

The Heartless
Of all the heartless men I've met, baby you were...

Damsel in distress; with
Ice clotting her veins, she...

When he sits here alone with me so flawlessly,
And he talks about the other girls so harmlessly...