Less Like Me

I took a night and wrote all about our quiet little life
Painted white in a suburb
You'd love me too and make shit up when we'd look at the moon
I take your word

But I just moved to the city with dollars to my name
You'll meet someone pretty when you move out of state
She'll be nothing like me, it's better off that way
Maybe if I was less like me, you'd stay

Sometimes I get close to driving to you, beg you not to go
And you'd listen
We double back, you'd say, "I'm stuck with you," now I'd cry and laugh
As we're kissin'

But I just moved to the city with dollars to my name
You'll meet someone pretty when you move out of state
She'll be nothing like me, it's better off that way
Maybe if I was less like me, you'd stay

Maybe if I tried harder to be honest
I wouldn't sit down every night to count my losses
Maybe if I tried going after what I wanted
I'd come home to you, not an empty apartment
Maybe if I said what I meant when I felt it
I'd be singing for you at the edge of our bed and we'd
Have our whole lives, we'd never let a good thing die

I just moved to the city with dollars to my name
I met someone who gets me but the feeling's not the same
He's just nothing like you, but I wish he was some days
Maybe if I was less like me, you'd stay

Maybe if I was less like me, it wouldn't be this way
Maybe if I was less like me, you'd stay