Beautiful

Rode all the way down memory lane where 65 ends

Wonderin' how it'd feel to see the one that got away again

Hopin' it might go down like that hometown unanswered prayer

My hero sang about on an old burned CD we shared

Somethin' on the interstate told me I was headed straight for your pretty storm

That the hurt was still gon' be there just like your name on my arm

Even got real with a girl I chill with up in Chapel Hill

Told her you were gonna be here just in case my heart was still

In Mobile

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?

(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?

(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)

Ain't no tellin', girl, how long it's been since we did all that shoutin'

Probably ten months, twenty-seven days, somethin' like that

But hey, who's countin'?

Oh, you know, just livin' the dream, home is where the bus is

I could say time looks fine on you, but

It wouldn't do it justice, it wouldn't do it justice

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?

(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?

(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)

I don't think your stomach's supposed to hurt quite like this

When you run into a girl you forgot you missed

It's like the space between us only made me numb

Thought I could just see you and be okay

But I'm not okay, girl

Tell me that smile on your face is so fake

And that it's all comin' back, comin' back, comin' back

I just have to ask, have to ask, have to ask

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?

(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?

(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?

(I don't think your stomach's supposed to hurt quite like this)

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful? (Yeah)

(Thought I could just see you and be okay)

(But I'm not okay, girl)