You Broke Me

[Verse 1]
(M) Thought you were my last long drive
Boot prints on the dash
Your hand in mine
You packed your bags by the porch light glow
Left your key on the hook
Didn’t say “I know”
(F) I watched your tailgate fade down that road
Coffee on the counter gone cold
So cold
You slammed that door on our little house dream
Now all that’s left is the echo and the screen
[Chorus]
(M) You broke me
Like a bottle on a barroom floor
Shards of me
Swept up by the closing door
(F) You tore right through
Every promise that we swore we'd keep
(Both) You broke me
Yeah you broke me
Now I’m too tired to even weep
[Verse 2]
(F) Your mama still calls
Asks how you been
I lie through my teeth with a shaky grin
Your flannel’s hanging on the same old chair
I swear some nights I feel you standing there
(M) Your lipstick stain on my Sunday shirt
Laughing in my head till the laughter hurts
I drive past your work
Then I keep on going
’Cause if I stop
All this hurt starts showing
[Chorus]
(M) You broke me
Like a match on a gasoline truth
Flamed out fast
Left ashes of our broken youth
(F) You carved your name
In the part of me I never let ’em see
(Both) You broke me
Yeah you broke me
Now I don’t know who I’m supposed to be
[Bridge]
(F) Maybe one day this rust turns to shine (oh)
I’ll stop tracing your name in the steam sometimes
(M) Maybe one day I forgive what you did
But tonight I’m just that scared little kid
(Both) We both swung hard
We both drew blood
Stood there watching
As it washed out in the mud
[Chorus]
(F) You broke me
Like a wild horse finally brought down
On my knees
In the middle of this two-lane town
(M) I broke you too
Guess the truth cuts both ways clean
(Both) You broke me
And I broke you
Now we’re strangers in the same old dream
[Outro]
(M) Tail lights fading on a gravel turn
(F) Two hearts crashed we’ll never return
(Both) You broke me
Yeah I broke you
But I still reach for you in my sleep

rock, Country rock duet with male + female vocals trading lines; jangly electric guitar and steady backbeat, warm bass, and organ pad in the verses. Choruses hit harder with stacked harmonies, a bright open hi-hat groove, and a soaring slide guitar answering the vocals. Energy starts mid-tempo and simmering, then swells into a gritty, cathartic final chorus with call-and-response ad-libs., country rock