So often, when writing something really personal, there’s a long conversation before you even start writing the actual song that I always forget the details about or the origin. One of the things I love so much about this song is that the conversation before we started writing this was all captured...
[Intro]
Oh na-na, oh na-na
Oh na-na, oh na-na
[Verse 1]
Here I go again
Three glasses in, countin' my sins
Home alone again
It's three in the mornin'
Just me and my demons at war again
So I'm callin' in, are you listenin'?
[Pre-Chorus]
You made a man that's fragile
You made a heart that can break
You showed me the road less traveled
Knowin' I'm gonna run away
You make me love so hard
When everything I love just leaves
Are you sure there's nothin' wrong with me?
[Chorus]
And why does my life have to hurt so much?
Why can't I find any peace or love?
And why do I feel like I'm not enough?
Dear God, are you sure that you don't mess up?
[Verse 2]
Can we still call it prayin' if
All that I do is sittin' here cursin', cursin' your name again?
But truth is it's not even you
It's just me that I'm up against
But you made me this
Can we share the blame for this? Mmm
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause after all, you made a man that's fragile
You made a heart that can break
I know you showed me the road less traveled
Knowin' I'm gonna run away
You make me love so hard
When everything I love just leaves
Are you sure that there's nothin' wrong with me?
[Chorus]
'Cause why does my life have to hurt so much?
Why can't I find any peace or love?
And why do I feel like I'm not enough?
Dear God, are you sure that you don't, that you don't mess up?
[Post-Chorus]
You don't mess up
I know you don't mess up
I know that you don't mess up
[Bridge]
I know this ain't for nothin'
There's nothin' you don't make
I know you got your reasons
This shit's just hard to take
I don't mean to criticize you
I know I'm hard to teach
I know you tell me there's nothin' wrong with me
[Chorus]
Yeah, but why does my life have to hurt so much?
And why can't I find any peace or love?
And why do I feel like I'm not enough?
Dear God, are you sure that you don't, that you don't mess up?
[Post-Chorus]
You don't mess up
No, you don't mess up, yeah
Dear God, just remind me you don't mess up
Dear God was written by David Spencer & Andy Grammer & Hunter Hayes.
Dear God was produced by Hunter Hayes & David Spencer.
Hunter Hayes released Dear God on Fri Aug 03 2018.