When you let them in your home, you were naked and alone
They'd been carving your tombstone since they first met you
It's not the years spent in the wings but it's the lies that really sting
But now with one brief little fling the party's over
It's so hard to understand in a field of also-rans
To be someone else that they no longer need
To be smothered by the hand that used to feed
One little slip was all it took, to put a bullet in your foot
You didn't think to stop and look, but now you're sober
In a single paragraph they turned your life into a farce
When you saw the photographs, the light was so cruel
It's so hard to understand in a field of also-rans
To be someone else that they no longer need
To be smothered by the hand that used to feed
When you let them in your home you were naked and alone
They'd been carving your tombstone since they first met you
It's so hard to understand in a field of also-rans
To be someone else that they no longer need
To be smothered by the hand that used to feed