[Part I: it's time to go]
[Verse 1]
When the dinner is cold and the chatter gets old
You ask for the tab
Or that moment again, he's insisting that friends
Look at each other like that
When the words of a whisper come back in whispers
That prove she was not
In fact what she seemed, not a twin from your dreams
She's a crook who was caught
[Chorus]
That old familiar body ache
The snaps from the same little breaks in your soul
You know when it's time to go
[Part II: Better Man]
[Verse 1]
I know I'm probably better off on my own
Than lovin' a man who didn't know what he had when he had it
And I see the permanent damage you did to me
Never again, I just wish I could forget when it was magic
[Pre-Chorus]
I wish it wasn't 4AM, standin' in the mirror
Saying to myself, "You know you had to do it"
I know the bravest thing I ever did was run
[Chorus]
Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I can feel you again
But I just miss you and I just wish you were a better man
But I know why we had to say goodbye like the back of my hand
But I just miss you and I just wish you were a better man
A better man
[Bridge]
I hold onto this pride because, these days, it's all I have
And I gave to you my best
And we both know you can't say that
You can't say that
[Part III: it's time to go]
[Verse 3]
Fifteen years, fifteen million tears
Begging 'til my knees bled
I gave it my all, he gave me nothin' at all
Then wondered why I left
Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones
Praying to his greed
He's got my past frozen behind glass
But I've got me
[Part IV: Better Man]
[Breakdown]
I wish you were a better man
I wonder what we would've become if you were a better man
We might still be in love if you were a better man
You would've been the one if you were a better man
[Chorus]
Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I can feel you again
But I just miss you and I just wish you were a better man
And I know why we had to say goodbye like the back of my hand
But I just miss you and I just wish you were a better man
A better man
[Part V: it's time to go]
[Chorus]
It's that old familiar body ache
The snaps from the same little breaks in your soul
You know
That old familiar body ache
The snaps from the same little breaks in your soul
I know when it's time to go
[Part VI: Better Man / it's time to go]
[Outro]
We might still be in love if you were a better man
You would've been the one if you were a better man
Wonder what we would've become if you were a better man
But I know when it's time to go