Can't Say It Like I Mean It

It's easier to forgive someone for

being wrong

Than for being right, isn't it?

And how your angry tears will fall when

all your plans

Don't suit the one you made them for

It comes to this.

It's easier forgetting how you got to shore

When every cloud that blows your way

Is something else to blame me for



Say it like you feel it

You can't say it like you feel it anymore

Say it like I mean it

I can't say it like I mean it anymore



Hold it up to the light, it looks like love

It's what the mirror says

You name it so

But you cut your pretty shapes as

paper flakes

From careful sheets

They blow away

Not made to keep

What if alteration makes a little lie?

When what you paint instead is easier

on the eye

Than what you hide



Say it like you feel it

You don't say it like you feel it anymore

Say it like I mean it

I can't say it like I mean it anymore

Not anymore



There are people who you think you're

gonna love forever

Oh when you should know better

You should know better

Some people only see you

As a move they're making

Another step they're taking

A bet they're staking

There are people who you think

You're gonna love forever

You're gonna stay together

You should know better

Some people don't forgive you

What you give up freely

or that you found it easy

They want to own completely.

There are people who you think you're

gonna love forever

Oh when you should know better

You should know better...

(I can't say it like I mean it anymore)