Every Avenue - The Hell Back Home lyrics

If it all was a dream then it was worth the memories If I make it out alive then know that this got the best of me My knuckles are white but I can't get a grip If this is the last song I write I'll make all the words fit From the roof of this house I watch the sun go down On the town that I've cursed since I turned 16 A set of keys, I was California dreamin' Drive, just drive And I've been saying that I changed my ways Disharmony seems to be my favorite word lately And love had its hand up but I pushed it away And I damn myself for the words I didn't say And all the things I said I wouldn't do, I've done When things get hard all I think to do is run But all I want is something to call my own I let my heart, woah, get the best of me this time I lost myself and all that mattered most to me But one thing doesn't make a man One thing doesn't make a man I can't believe all the things that I've seen I was moving so fast, forgot to take it all in It's the sad times and tears, and being alone That makes you think of the times that mattered most And now it's 5 years later and I'm still all alone My closest thing to a friend, quarter dime in a payphone And now I'm feeling all the pain that I've caused Behind this broke down piano in the back of this bar So this is California The sun still sets the exact same was as back home On that rooftop, the sun still sets the same I let my heart, woah, get the best of me this time I lost myself and all that mattered most to me But one thing doesn't make a man But one thing doesn't make a man The lies I told, the hearts I broke The things I had, I never told The tip of my tongue, fingertips Translate every word I must have missed Forgot to mention when I lived back home And now I'm going back to the only thing I ever knew Woah, oh, get the best of me this time I lost myself and all that mattered most to me But one thing doesn't make a man I let my heart, woah, get the best of me this time I lost myself and all that mattered most to me But one thing doesn't make a man But one thing doesn't make a man