At first you have to learn how not to listen
When she opens up her heart
You try your best to make it all about you
That's the easy part
Take all your promises and break them
Stay out late and come home high
By this time your on you way
It's going to be over any day
And if you really try you wont have to wonder why

Yeah take it from a man who knows
Just how to break a heart
Listen hard and listen close
I got it down to a art
Keep on thinkin' she won't leave
You know the writing on the wall
That's how you'll lose it all
Yeah yeah yeah

Let the walls fall down around you
Let the bills and dishes stack up to the sky
Make friends with regret
Try you damnedest to forget
But I bet you never will no I swear you never will

Take it from a man who knows
Just how to break a heart
Listen hard and listen close
I got it down to an art
Keep on thinkin she won't leave
You know the writing on the wall
That's how you'll lose it all
Yeah you lose it all yeah yeah
Shes never comin' back
No she ain't never comin' back
No no no

Take it from a man who knows
Just how to break a heart
Listen hard and listen close
I got it down to an art
Keep on thinkin she won't leave
You know the writing on the wall
That's how you'll lose it all
Lose it all
Yeah you lose it all
Oh yeah you lose it all