Dear John

Long were the nights when

My days once revolved around you

Counting my footsteps

Praying the floor won't fall through, again

My mother accused me of losing my mind 

But I swore I was fine



You paint me a blue sky

And go back and turn it to rain

And I lived in your chess game

But you changed the rules everyday

Wonderin' which version of you I might get on the phone, tonight

Well I stopped pickin' up and this song is to let you know why



Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone 

Don't you think I was too young 

To be messed with

The girl in the dress 

Cried the whole way home, I should've known.



Well maybe it's me

And my blind optimism to blame

Or maybe it's you and your sick need

To give love and take it away



And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand

And I'll look back in regret how I ignored when they said 

'Run as fast as you can'



Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone 

Don't you think I was too young 

To be messed with

The girl in the dress 

Cried the whole way home



Dear John, I see it all now it was wrong

Don't you think nineteen's too young

To be played by your dark, twisted games

When I loved you so, I should've known.



You are an expert at sorry

And keeping the lines blurry

Never impressed by me acing your tests

All the girls that you run dry have tired lifeless eyes

Cause you burned them out



But I took your matches

Before fire could catch me

So don't look now

I'm shining like fireworks

Over your sad empty town



Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone 

Don't you think I was too young 

To be messed with

The girl in the dress 

Cried the whole way home



I see it all now that you're gone 

Don't you think I was too young 

To be messed with

The girl in the dress 

Wrote you a song, you should've known.



You should've known

Don't you think I was too young

You should've known.