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Caroline the Wrecking Ball > 06.25.2013

There's something 'bout the way we fall apart
It's like everything that matters, doesn't matter from the start
And everyone around us plays a part.
The wrecking ball comes crashing through the window,
and the structures that you carry in your heart.

And all I ever asked of you was just to be the woman that you wanted to
That's all I ever asked.

Just outside the city, someday last July
Girl's name was Brandy but they called her Caroline
No one even knew her history,
Said she came from somewhere in the (mumble),
but it seemed like she was coming straight for me

I was playing nine-ball with two guys I knew from work.
Junkie fuckin' local starts acting like a jerk
I saw him put his hands up Brandy's skirt
I don't know what happened next in retrospect
I lost my head and kinda went bizzerk

By the time they pulled me off him
I was almost comin' to
Bleeding at the knuckles,
she said nice to meet you, the cops will probably be here in a flash
Hailed a cab, we both got in and watched that taxi driver slam his foot down on the gas

Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
Woah, must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you,
But I ain't nobody's fool

Next few months was we spent a lot of time up in the room
Laughed lots and we drank a lot
We tried to shoot the moon
In the morning time she'd always disappear
But I agreed, I'd never asked no questions with the chance of answers I don't wanna hear

(*mumbles*) stoop outside my place
She tried to hide it, every sadness on her face
Oh is there anything I can do?
She said perhaps you'd drop this package off, though I would hate to inconvenience you

Well they say a suckers born every sixty seconds time
I knew I shouldn't do it, but I put it from my mind
And, oh if you see that gal of mine,
You'll understand, I have no way of making those decisions
Yea reasons got no rhyme

Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
Woah, must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you,
But I ain't nobody's fool
Nobody's fool no, no

I knocked at the address that she gave, waited for a few
Looked inside the window, where I saw a kid or two
Next thing I knew, a gun was in my face
There's just some shit you never can erase

Both my hands were shaking,
And the sun began to rise
I came to my place and she was gone
I'm not surprised

You never ground a bird that needs to fly
Well I got into that urge to move
Thanks to you, my wrecking ball Caroline

Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
Woah, must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you,
Woah, must be a fool like me to be with you
Woah, must be a fool like me to be with you
But I ain't nobody's fool
Nobody's fool, no, no