And it all comes around like this, in a moment like a cold kiss
I taste the salt from your sweat
It stings just like regret
And if I never wash your pillow case, pretend you never left
All my friends say "Let it drown, don't keep it in your head"
But my face is like an open book, a skin I haven't shed
She said "You look like you've seen a ghost"
Maybe I did
I've been hanging on that rope of expectations
My father told me to get my gun
Mama told me to use these hands for love
For love
You better leave her alone, alright
So I got doubt and I got faith
I got real that I can't fake
And when I look into your patient eyes I know that I can't wait
Give me pain, give me pain
Give me love it's all the same
You can empty out the register
Snatch up all the goods that you can
My father told me to get my gun
Mama told me to use these hands for love, for love
Don't get caught in your selfish ways
Take the money and hide your dreams away
And if you find an unbroken one, boy leave her precious heart alone
Now I know all the walls I built, I built them alone
Now I lay down this burden and let this heartache go
My father told me to get my gun
Mama told me to use these hands for love
My father told me to get my gun
Mama told me to use these hands for love, for love
"Don't get caught in your selfish ways
Take the money and hide your dreams away
And if you find an unbroken one, boy leave her precious heart alone"