I wrote this song by your kitchen table
Maybe it all seems okay
Sometimes it's better just to laugh than to run away
Maybe I'll leave you in the coming winter
And all of your dreams soon fade away
Sometimes it's better just to run than to play your game
When we were laying down and you held my hand
Amongst the opal flowers, when we sat outside
And I see it's over, now we just grew out of love
Out from the darkness your heartlessness
Haunting my future, Down on all fours you bark bright
At the descending moonlight
You'll be with the rest of the lonely people
Ones who live in a cold dark place
Sometimes it's better just to run than to face the pain
I've not been seeing you for some time now
And still you choose to hold my hate
But after how I handled it, you're hardly to blame
I feel you read my mind and look through my soul
As our love grew fainter and your face grew wetter
And I see it's over, now we just grew out of love
Out from the darkness your heartlessness
Haunting my future, Down on all fours you bark bright
At the descending moonlight
All of the rest of our days together
I may have never seemed the same
Sometimes there's nothing we can do
When we all change
And now my hearts in two, not a half for you
Another situation now the mornings golden
And I see it's over, now we just grew out of love
Out from the darkness your heartlessness
Haunting my future, Down on all fours you bark bright
At the descending moonlight
Produced by Rick Rubin
Mixed by Andrew Scheps, Billy Bush
Recorded by Dana Nielsen, Dave Schiffman. Phillip Broussard Jr.
Recorded at Shangri La Studio, Malibu, CA
Assisted by Sean Oakley, Eric Lynn, Joshua Smith
Edited by Dana Nielsen, Jason Gossman, Jason Lader
Mixed at Punkerpad West, Van Nuys, CA & Red Razor Sounds, Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA
Vocals, Electric, Acoustic & Slide Guitar: Jake Bugg
Electric, Acoustic & Slide Guitar: Matt Sweeney
Bass, Piano, Barritone Guitar: Jason Lader
Drums, Percussion: Chad Smith, Pete Thomas
Fender Rhodes: Eric Lynn
Chad Smith appears courtesy of Warner Bros, Records
Production Assistant: Dave "Squirrel" Covell