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verse 1:
(this is not a love song)
it was just another morning as ordinary as ever
but she couldn't wait to see him, it seemed like it'd been forever
so despite the weather she headed in to get ready
so excited that she could barely hold her pretty head steady
it's been ten months she's been sitting at home
since he left her alone & flew into a foreign warzone
now he's finally coming home on leave to see
the ones he left behind to be all he could be
& she can hardly keep her self contained
as she departs in the car & it starts to rain
with an image of him memorized inside of her brain
she can't help but hope he's coming back the same
as he left, so with a deep breath she drives
& the fear inside puts a couple of tears in her eyes
but she just wipes them away, smiles, & thinks of his face
& how many days it's been since she's felt his embrace
what a waste the time apart has felt like to her
how that flight took her heart & put a knife right through her
it's like everything changed when his plane left the ground
& she felt so strange as she drove back to town
knowing there was no way she'd ever understand
the things he'd seen & done in the name of his homeland
but all she wanted was to go back to the way
things were before he left that day...

chorus:
...and when love gets tainted
sometimes the piece gets painted
a different texture than we expected
now every movement's misdirected
because something somewhere got disconnected
when love gets tainted
sometimes the piece gets painted
a different texture than we expected
now every moment's misdirected
because something somewhere got disconnected...

verse 2:
he knows he's a different man now
and he can't even begin to comprehend how
he's supposed to go back to the life that he led
before he left & let the war get into his head
he's spent so long being reprogrammed
he forgot what it's like to be his own man
but he knows that somewhere at home is a girl
that used to be the only thing in the world
that ever mattered, but even that's
not enough to keep him from believing the fact
that circumstances change & people do to
& every chance that's he's taken has led him through to
a new point of view, a new frame of mind
he knew now that it was bound to take some time
to find himself in a place that felt like home
with all these feelings that he's dealt with alone
for so long, he don't know how to express
so he sits & he sweats & he gets so depressed
& he seems so distant, he runs & he shoves
away the world & even the girl that he loves
can't get close to the man that she fell for
he's seen the sins that men go to hell for
& some things you just never forget
you just try to adjust to living with the regret...

chorus (x 2)

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from Smoke Signals to Satellites, released April 16, 2008

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