At first you gotta learn how not to listen

When she opens up her heart

You try your best to make it all about you

Yeah that's the easy part

Take all your promises and break them

Stay out late and come home high

By this time you're on your way

It's gonna be over any day

And if you really try you won't have to wonder why, yeah



Take it from a man who knows

Just how to break a heart

Listen hard and listen close

I got it down to an art

Keep on thinkin' she won't leave

Ignore the writing on the wall

That's how you lose it all

Let the walls fall down around you



Let the bills and the dishes stack up to the sky

Make friends with regret

Try your damnedest to forget

And you bet you never will

Oh I swear you never will, yeah



Take it from a man who knows

Just how to break a heart

Listen hard and listen close

I got it down to an art

Keep on thinkin' she won't leave

Ignore the writing on the wall

That's how you lose it all, yeah

Take it from a man who knows

Just how to break a heart

Listen hard and listen close

I got it down to an art



And keep on thinkin' she won't leave

Ignore the writing on the wall

That's how you lose it all

You lose it all

Take all your promises and break 'em