How It Ends

The lights of Virginia Are too bright to stand So, she's walking home With a new life in her hands Past the dead end streets And run down plans She's got a good one To follow a man She swears that he's different He's not like the rest He sings in the kitchen He's good with the kids A few good years then it starts to hit She put it all in but he's calling it quits So, I've given up on believing That everybody gets a chance And I don't understand Why she does it to herself When she knows how it ends Still I wouldn't trade it This thing that we do Just know it's a feeling that I never knew I'm slow, but you're patiently walking me through When we talk In the dark of your room I try to be in it And cry, but I can't You just cut me open Saying that's what I am I'm betting my fate on a line in your hand It finally feels like a good place to land But I've grown up on the feeling Of falling to my knees again So, I don't understand Why we do it to ourselves When we know how it ends