You Almost Had Me Doubting

1 Funny how a story changes 2 When you tell it to somebody new 3 Same two people, same damn night 4 But somehow I’m the bad guy in yours 5 You say you never raised your voice 6 Like I just packed up and made the choice 7 You leave out what you said before 8 Then wonder why I don’t come around anymore 9 You got a way of moving blame 10 Without ever having to say my name 11 You tell your side, I hear it twice 12 And damn, you almost make it sound right 13 I kept the dates, I kept the texts 14 Even saved things I should’ve deleted 15 I kept the receipts, you handed me the bill 16 Funny how I’m still the one paying for it 17 You said you needed space, I gave you room 18 Didn’t know you’d need the whole damn house 19 I stopped calling, you said I didn’t care 20 Can’t win a game when you move the squares 21 I went back through those conversations 22 Trying to find where we lost the patience 23 Maybe I said more than I should 24 Maybe you heard what you wanted to 25 You almost had me doubting 26 Everything I knew 27 Had me questioning the past 28 Like I made it all up too 29 You almost had me believing 30 I was the one to blame 31 But a story ain’t the truth 32 Just because you say it that way 33 [S]tarted losing track of what was real 34 [I]n every half-ass truth you tried to deal 35 [L]ines kept shifting every single day 36 [V]erifying nothing that you’d say 37 [E]very story spun to fit your view 38 [R]ewriting history to suit you 39 [B]ack & forth, you had me on the hook 40 [U]nraveling the angles that you took 41 [C]ounting every single hidden scar 42 [K]eeping score of where we really are 43 [L]istening to games you tried to play 44 [E]nding up right back at square one today 45 Now I ain’t saying I was always right 46 I said some things I wish I’d left inside 47 I slammed a door, I walked away 48 I’ve got my share of things to say 49 But I won’t take the blame for it all 50 I wasn’t the only one who watched us fall 51 You’d call your friends, I’d bite my tongue 52 Then hear what I’d supposedly done 53 I tried explaining, you changed the subject 54 I’d get halfway through, you’d interrupt it 55 And every time I thought we’d made some ground 56 We’d wind up right back where we started out 57 You played the devil’s advocate so well 58 I swear the devil would’ve hired you himself 59 You almost had me doubting 60 Everything I knew 61 Had me questioning the past 62 Like I made it all up too 63 You almost had me believing 64 I was the one to blame 65 But a story ain’t the truth 66 Just because you say it that way 67 We’re both speaking English, that’s the funniest part 68 I understand every word, just not where you start 69 Might need a translator to tell me what you mean 70 Sometimes I swear you’re speaking Spanish in between 71 Me das papeles con tanto cuento, 72 Pero tus mentiras se lleva el viento. 73 Ya me cansé de jugar tu juego, 74 Sigue mintiendo, yo ya no te creo. 75 Guardas tus culpas buscando excusas, 76 Pero esta trampa ya está muy sucia. 77 Leo tus líneas y pierdo la calma, 78 Con tanta mierda que hay en tu alma. 79 I remember sitting in the drive 80 With the engine running, killing time 81 Trying to figure what I’d say 82 If you came walking out that day 83 You could make a goodbye sound like a threat 84 And a promise something I’d regret 85 Then tell everybody I walked away 86 Like you didn’t ask me to leave that day 87 I spent too long explaining 88 What you never tried to hear 89 Funny how the folks who weren’t there 90 Seem to know what happened there 91 You almost had me doubting 92 Everything I knew 93 Had me questioning the past 94 Like I made it all up too 95 You almost had me believing 96 I was the one to blame 97 But a story ain't the truth 98 Just because you say it that way 99 I know what happened, even if you don’t 100 FUCK HER, AND THIS LETTER TOO.