I move on like a sinners prayer
And letting go like a levee breaks
Walk away as if I don't care
Learn to shoulder my mistakes
Or built to fade like your favorite song
Get reckless when there's no need
Laugh as your stories ramble on
Break my heart, but it won't bleed
My only friends are pirates
That's just who I am
But I'm better as a memory than as your man
Never sure when the truth won't do
And pretty good on a lonely night
Or move on the way a storm blows through
And never stay, but then again, I might.
I struggle sometimes to find the words
Always sure until I doubt
Walk a line until it blurs
Build walls too high to climb out
But I'm honest to a fault
That's just who I am
I'm better as a memory than as your man
I see you leaning, you're bound to fall
I don't want to be that mistake
I'm just a dreamer and nothing more
You should know it before it gets too late
Cause goodbyes are like a roulette wheel
You never know where they're gonna land
First you're spinning, then you're standing still
Left holding a losing hand
But one day you're gonna find someone
And right away you'll know it's true
That all of your seekings done
It was just a part of the passing through
Right there in that moment you'll finally understand
That I was better as a memory than as your man
Better as a memory than as your man
A depressing breakup song about a womanizer and an innocent woman. All he's going to do is break her heart, so he dumps her. Depressing song, but good. I love the way the electric guitar and piano work together in the beginning.
It's funny how perspective is everything. I'm that guy who was broken. Infidelity on the part of the wife after a 22 year relationship. Somehow I have become that guy that I hated. I have found myself involved where I shouldn't have been. The line "I can see you leaning,I don't want to be that mistake" to me stands for the married woman who talked of leaving her husband. I have this ability to turn and burn. To just walk away. If it weren't for kids, I would be just a memory to my home town. "Break my heart but it won't bleed," I can't be hurt any deeper.
A lonely person who becomes involved in a relationship but when he sees the woman in his life starting to get too involved (...you're bound to fall) can't commit to her (...I don't want to be that mistake), and moves on even though it hurts probably himself as well as the woman in his life. Trying to rationalize it perhaps by saying that one day she will find someone who will give her what she needs. Knows that he won't change, but continues to replay the same song over and over and over again.
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