What a Way to Live

[Verse 1]
Well, I hear you haven't learned a thing yet doll face
I hear still you haven't learned to shut your mouth
I've heard your ugly accusations up and down the state
I see you still don't know what you're talking about
Well anyone that knows me won't believe you
Anyone that doesn't doesn't care
And anyone that spends a little time with you
Will soon realize you're not completely there

[Chorus]
And you've never been nice
And you've never been wrong
You've never been loved
You won't let nobody in
You've been mad at the world too long
And you never forget
And you never forgive
But you'll never know
A moment of peace in your life like that
Man, what a way to live

[Verse 2]
We never really had that much in common
It was a mismatch any common fool could see
But you told me God had sent you
How could anyone argue with that?
At the time I figured you knew him better than me
Yeah, and you started off so well behaved you fooled me
You never raised your voice or made a slip
Oh yeah, you started off the sweetest thing 'til the coast was clear
Then you let your past out of that cage
And I wound up needing a chair and a whip

[Chorus]
No, you've never been nice
And you've never been wrong
You've never been loved
You won't let nobody in
You've been mad at the world too long
And you never forget
And you never forgive
But you'll never know
A moment of peace in your life like that
Man, what a way to live

[Verse 3]
Yeah now the way I see it
You made seven serious mistakes
Yes, in eight ways did you blow it pretty bad
You started off believing that my patience was unending
Mistook my kindness for a weakness
Broke us up with your bare hands

Yeah but my love doesn't have my kind of patience
Yeah my poor wife's so frustrated
Sometimes she beats you up in her dreams
You see she had someone like you in her past
And he caused a lot of damage
She says your lies and your jive and your general vibe
Just make her want to scream

[Verse 4]
Me, I tried to just forget you and get on with it
I've tried to live my life and let you be
I've learned from my mistakes
And let the past bury the past
I can't believe that after all these years
You're still trying to get even with me

Yeah, you're way out of control like an explosion
And you're completely out of line, leave us alone
People break up all the time without declaring holy war
You've become one of the very few people in my life
That I wish I'd never known

[Chorus]
'Cause you've never been nice...
And you've never been wrong
You've never been loved
You won't let nobody in
You've been mad at the world too long
And you never forget
And you never forgive
But you'll never know
A moment of peace in your life like that
Man, man oh man
What a way to live