Tough Love

I took a train to Boston and I wanted to cry

He's gone, I'm twenty-four and it's a Saturday night

I ran and took his jacket with the rip in the side

I hate when we fight, it sucks when we fight

But honestly, whatever, he's just one of the boys

I'll date for like a summer and I'll leave when I'm bored

This train is full of strangers but I might like 'em more

I said I might like 'em more, yeah, no I like 'em more

And that's just

Tough love but I mean it

Really mean it

I'm not charmed, so I'm leaving

I laughed the second he tried to call my bluff

I guess it's always funny until it's not

When I left him there to feel it

Couldn't guess what I'd be leaving for

No chance I'll waste my twenties on random men

Not one of them is cooler than all my friends

And I hate to leave him bleeding

But I know now what I'm leaving for

I'm walking by the river and I stopped by the boats

At night it's kinda tempting just to see if you'd float

The benches by the Charles gave me somewhere to go

I feel like I'm home

There's a bar down the road

I'm wasted with the sister of a boy that I met

Through someone back in college, she's a weird intellect

She liked to tell the truth and she was harsh but direct

Her boyfriends all left, she had that effect

But that's just

Tough love

And you're lucky to receive it

Right?

He'll crumble to pieces

I laughed the second he tried to call my bluff

I guess it's always funny until it's not

When I left him there in pieces

Couldn't guess what I'd be leaving for

No chance I'll waste my twenties on random men

Not one of them is smarter than all my friends

And I hate to leave him bleeding

But I know now what I'm leaving for

Ooh

Oh, I know now what I'm leaving for

Mmm

Oh, I know now what I'm leaving-

No I'm not gonna miss the way he'd kick me in my bed while sleeping

And I'm not gonna miss his shitty friends and nights of their binge drinking

And I'm not gonna miss his old inflated ego, shallow thinking

And I'm not gonna miss denying that I've got my own damn reasons

I laughed the second he tried to call my bluff

I guess it's always funny until it's not

When I left him there to feel it

Couldn't guess what I'd be leaving for

No chance I'll waste my twenties on random men

Not one of them is tougher than all my friends

And I hate to leave him bleeding

But I know now what I'm leaving for