You Broke Me

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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