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Caroline the Wrecking Ball > 08.31.2013

There something about the way we fall apart
It's like everything that matters, didn’t matter from the start
And everyone around us played a part
Wrecking ball came crashing through the windows
And the structures that we carry in our heart

And all I ever asked of you
Is just to be the woman that you wanted to
It’s all I ever asked

Just outside the city on a Sunday last July
The girl’s name was Brandy but we called her Caroline
No one even knew her history
She said she came from somewhere in the southland
Seems like she was coming straight for me

I was playing nine ball with two guys I knew from work
Local junkie starts acting like a jerk
Saw him put his hand up Brandy’s shirt
And I don’t know what happened next
In retrospect I lost my head and kinda went berserk

By the time they pulled me off him I was almost coming to
Bleeding at the knuckles, she said nice to meet you
And the cops will probably be here in a flash
We 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
Oh oh oh
Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
But I ain’t nobody’s fool

Next few months we spent a lot of time up in the room
Laughed a lot, we drank a lot, yeah we tried to shoot the moon
In the morning time she'd always disappear
But I agreed, I'd never ask no questions
With the chance of an answer I don't wanna hear

One day I found her crying on the stoop outside my place
She tryin’ to hide it, but there’s sadness on her face
Oh is there anything I can do?
She said perhaps if you would drop this package off
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’d understand, I got no hand in making those decisions
Reasons got no rhyme

Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
Oh oh oh
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

Well I knocked at the address that she gave waited for a few
Looked inside the window and I saw a kid or two
Next thing I knew a burner in my face
There's just some things you never can erase

Both my hands were shaking and the sun began to rise
I got back to my place, she was gone I'm not surprised
You can never ground a bird that needs to fly
And 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
Oh oh oh
Must be a fool like me to be with a fool like you
Oh oh oh
Must be a fool like me to be with you
Oh oh oh
Must be a fool like me to be with you
But I ain't nobody's fool
Nobody's fool no no