Bruised (Strings Attached Version)

I've got my things, I'm good to go

You met me at the terminal

Just one more plane ride and it's done

We stood like statues at the gate

Vacation's come and gone too late

There's so much sun where I'm from

I had to give it away, I had to give you away

And we spent four days on an island at your family's old hotel

Sometimes perfection can be, it can be perfect hell

Perfect

Hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there

I swear, I didn't mean for it to feel like this

Like every inch of me is bruised

Bruised

And don't fly fast

Oh, pilot, can you help me? Can you make this last?

This plane is all I got, so keep it steady now

'Cause every inch you see is

Bruised

I lace my Chucks, I walk the aisle

I take my pills, the babies cry

All I hear

Is what's playing through the in-flight radio

Now every word of every song

I ever heard that made me want to stay

Is what's playing through the in-flight radio

And I

And I am

I'm finally waking up

Hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there

I swear, I didn't mean for it to feel like this

Like every inch of me is bruised

Bruised

And don't fly fast

Oh, pilot, can you help me? Can you make this last?

This plane is all I got, so keep it steady now

'Cause every inch you see is

Bruised

So read your books, but stay out late some nights, some nights

And don't think that you can't stop by the bar

You haven't shown your face here since the bad news

Well, I'm here till close, my fingers crossed

Each night 'cause your place isn't far

And hours pass

And hours pass

Yeah, yeah, oh, oh

Yeah, yeah

She still counts the minutes that I am not there

I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this

Like every inch of me is bruised

Bruised

And don't fly fast

Pilot, can you help me? Can you make this last?

This plane is all I got, so keep it steady now

'Cause every inch you see is

Bruised

Bruised, bruised