I can read the lines

On your face and they're telling me

Everything I already know

Yeah

I hold you in my arms

But your light is away from me

Slowly sinking under, alone

Yeah



So I act cool

On the outside

But it's eating me alive



'Cause when it comes to you

There's nothing I can do

I can't make you love me when you don't

I see it in your eyes

All the compromise

No, I can't take another slow goodbye



Sitting in the park, after dark, smoking cigarettes

Biting all the black off of my nails

'Cause all I ever was what you took away from me

Try to make it right, but it's too late



I'm a hopeless case on the inside

And it's eating me alive



'Cause when it comes to you

There's nothing I can do

I can't make you love me when you don't

I see it in your eyes

All the compromise

No, I can't take another slow goodbye



No

I die

A million times every time when you look me in the eye

I die

'Cause I've heard it all before

The same pain

You throw around and around

But I still end up with nothing

But heartache



'Cause when it comes to you

There's nothing I can do

I can't make you love me when you don't

I see it in your eyes

All the compromise

No, I can't take another slow goodbye

No

There's nothing I can do

I can't make you love me when you don't

I see it in your eyes

All the compromise

No, I can't take another slow goodbye