by tyler stenson © 2006 — ASCAP

Leaving you is the hardest thing a man can do.
Will we make it til the morning? She had to refuse.
Should we burn something down
Just because it’s gotten so cold?
Leaving you is the hardest thing a man can do.

So long darling, you’re a terrible thing to waste
But if we’re always in the middle,
Then we’re never getting out of this place.
I needed change but all along
I’ve been living these yesterdays.
So, so long darling, you’re a terrible thing to waste.

And you better trust not to hope-
It left here a long time ago and
Love always dies in August
Didn’t you know?

Leaving you is the only thing a man can do.
Forgetting you is just a consequence that I’ll have to choose.
Like a light that burns out,
But leaves a stinging in your eyes,
Leaving you is the hardest thing a man can do.