Breaking Hearts the Hard Way

You coulda packed everything and left me and us in a dust cloud

And I woulda drank you away 'til you're just something I write songs about

Yeah we both would have moved on

Yeah we both woulda been fine

Yeah we both would've lived to love another day

But we had to go breaking hearts the hard way

Trying to fake a feeling that a heart can't

Acting like the whole damn house ain't coming down

When it's already up in flames

Coulda left it at a clean break

So I guess we're both to blame

'Cause we both stayed

Had to go breaking hearts the hard way

Had to go breaking hearts the hard way

Would've been better off hitting pride with sticks and stones

And cutting them stitches outta all that holding on

Yeah but we both were scared too

Yeah we both shoulda saw that

Yeah we both should've had more than all of that nothing to say

But we had to go breaking hearts the hard way

Trying to fake a feeling that a heart can't

Acting like the whole damn house ain't coming down

When it's already up in flames

Coulda left it at a clean break

So I guess we're both to blame

'Cause we both stayed

Had to go breaking hearts the hard way

Honey I think

There's a whole lot of past and some pain we probably changed

But we had to go breaking hearts the hard way

Trying fake a feeling that a heart can't

Acting like the whole damn house ain't coming down

When it's already up in flames

Coulda left it at a clean break

So I guess we're both to blame

And we both stayed

Had to go breaking hearts the hard way

We had to go breaking hearts the hard way