Summer Nights

I won't let you get too close I'm addicted to being alone All the scars were etched in me By forgotten memories I'm too old to let it go Lost inside a setting sun That's burned away what's left of me The quiet boy I used to be The wolves in my head won't stop And the bills keep adding up I guess it's how it will always be But it's killing what's left of me We never really had enough It forced a kid to be grown up You walked away from us that day You lied and threw it all away You just threw us both away You just threw it all away The summer nights are haunting me It's so hot I can barely breathe Get in the car and run away Burn down the house We'll find a way Nothing is really how it seems A small fire is all we need We'll start again some other place Where the nights won't keep us awake The summer nights won't keep us awake She works all day a job she hates And cleans big houses until late But it still isn't adding up The landlord has had enough She knocks on doors every other week Selling phone books for cheap Her sister says that she has it easy Her mother hates her 'cus she isn't Who she wants her to be The words, they burn her like gasoline The summer nights are haunting me It's so hot I can barely breathe Get in the car and run away Burn down the house We'll find a way Nothing is really how it seems A small fire is all we need We'll start again some other place Where the nights won't keep us awake The summer nights won't keep us awake Your words fall short You know they do The lies you told They haunt me still And after all We have been through I'm all alone Because of you Because of you (summer nights won't keep us awake) I'll just become somebody else