Where to begin?
No one ever tells you that you lose your best friend
when you make her your wife.

So let's talk about commitments and compromised positions.
Let's talk about learning to live with decisions.
Cause we live in a world where no one wants to work,
so we scream at each other just to be heard,
and the louder it gets the more we forget that
love's not a choice but we choose when to use it.

So let's write a song without any words
and let the poetry be colored by the notes we disperse.
Or we'll still be singing these songs we penned
about the ones we once loved and have forgotten since.
They all slip away.

So let's toast to that same sad song.
Raise your glasses to the fact that first impressions don't last long
Cause at the end of the day we'll have watched our beauty fade,
like the ink under the skin of the choices we've made.

Save tonight and embrace these memories.
The love we share will outlast this song.
Save tonight cause there's nothing better here.
The songs we sing will eventually all fade away.

My dear friend, if it's really love you've found
then hold it high and love it more even when it lets you down
...and it will.

We all still trip on the bags that we've tethered to
the past we try and leave to become half of something better.
And only when it leaves do we know exactly what its worth,
it's never worth your time, if you can't leave you hurt.
And to make sure it stays you must leave everything,
including what you had with her before she wore a ring.
So just blame these sad songs.

Save tonight and embrace these memories.
The love we share will outlast this song.
Save tonight cause there's nothing better here.
The songs we sing will eventually all fade away.

When it's good it's good and when it's bad it's still better than every

single thought you had before you were together.
When it's good its good and when it's bad its still better than every

single night you spent before you ever met her.

Save tonight and embrace these memories.
The love we give will out live these songs anyway.


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