I Can't Love

Remember holidays and presents, under the tree. (ba-ba-ba-ba-ba) You next to me. (BA ba) I’m alone missing your presence, here in the dark. (ba-ba-ba-ba) I can’t believe. (BA ba) We had everything we wanted. (ba-ba-ba-ba) Cars, money, clothes, love naturally. (BA ba ba ba) But now it’s separate conversations. (ba-ba-ba-ba-ba) All just because you had to leave. (BA ba) PRE-CHORUS 1 I JUST. (BA — sharp breath) Laid with someone. (ba-ba-ba) I barely know. (BA ba) I HOPE. (BA) You’ll un-der-stand. (ba-ba-ba) I can’t control. (BA ba) If YOU. (BA) Ever re-turn. (ba-ba-ba) I will be whole. (BA ba) Till THEN. (BA — drop volume) I will use them. (ba-ba-ba) To heal my soul. (BA ba — hollow) (beat breathes…) CHORUS / HOOK I keep layin’ down with girls that I can’t love. (ba-ba-ba-ba-ba) I’m close to the skin but I don’t feel too much. (BA ba ba ba) I had somethin’ real but, girl, I messed that up. (ba-ba-ba-ba) Now I’m layin’ down with girls that I can’t love. (BA ba ba) Can’t love no more. (BA ba — drag it) Can’t love no more. (BA ba) Whatever broke me left me unsure. (ba-ba-ba-ba) I can’t love no more. (BA ba — let it fade) VERSE 2 Caught in different SITUATIONS. (ba-ba-ba-BA-ba) When I had it all. (BA ba) Remember playin’ in your face when. (ba-ba-ba-ba) You had cried and bawled. (BA ba) Baby girl you tried to warn me. (ba-ba-ba-ba) I didn’t hear at all. (BA ba) Now the phone go straight to voicemail. (ba-ba-ba-ba-ba) Every. Time I call. (BA… ba — silence) PRE-CHORUS 2 If I. (BA) Could turn back time. (ba-ba-ba) I surely would. (BA ba) Wish I’d. (BA) Apologized. (ba-ba-ba) Back when I could. (BA ba) Now it’s. (BA) Simply too late. (ba-ba-ba) Won’t do no good. (BA ba) For now. (BA — exhausted) I’ll sleep with her, (ba-ba-ba) Not that I should. (BA ba — cracked) FINAL CHORUS (SAME — EMOTIONALLY HEAVIER) I keep layin’ down with girls that I can’t love. (voice rougher, almost pleading) I’m close to the skin but I don’t feel too much. I had somethin’ real but, girl, I messed that up. Now I’m layin’ down with girls that I can’t love. Can’t love no more. (half-whisper) Can’t love no more. Whatever broke me left me unsure. I can’t love no more. (final note strained… breath gives out) (instrument trails, no resolve)