The Man Who Doesn't Love You

from LISTEN TO SOME MUSIC by Stompcat

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I wish I were the man who doesn't love you
The man who doesn't love you gets along all right
He isn't thinking of you every day and night
Oh how happy he must be

I wish I were the man who never met you
The man who never met hasn't seen those eyes
And he would hardly let you haunt him otherwise
Oh how grateful he must be

I do the best I can but the man who doesn't love you isn't me

Okay your hands are clean
Okay you never mean to hurt me
Oh, you hurt me though
Okay you're not aware
But do you even care you hurt me?
Oh, you hurt me so

You're as bright
And as far
As a star

I wish I were the kid who didn't need you
Oh if I didn't need you what a life I'd know
I wouldn't breathe and bleed you everywhere I go
Oh how lucky I would be

I do the best I can but the man who doesn't love you isn't me

Okay your hands are clean
Okay you never mean to hurt me
Oh, you hurt me though
Okay you're not aware
But do you even care you hurt me?
Oh, you hurt me so

You're as bright
And as far
As a summer we'd spend kissing in the car
As the lifetimes we've been wasting at the bar

But there's a gap between the girls and the guitar
There is smoke between the stage and the cigar
Don't you go mistaking starlight for a star
There is dark between the dream and who we are

All the things we'll never be and who we are
All the things we'll never be and who we are
And I'm trying to be fine with who we are...

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from LISTEN TO SOME MUSIC, released March 9, 2014

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