Never Does - Head for the Hills

He’s been shut in and cast out

With no light to cast the shadow of a last doubt.

He feels inadequate mad at being the class clown

Looking at her thinking she’s too good for a bad spouse.

When they first met he was on the fast route

Sitting high atop the saddle of a cash cow

That’s how they watched everything crash down

I’m throwing boulders through the windows of his glass house.

He follows instincts he still has yet to trust

He thinks we shouldn’t let emotions get the best of us

So every second’s spent forgetting who he ever was

You’d think it’d make him feel better — it never does.

She’s been thrown away and left at home

She sets the table, her melancholy sets the tone

With buckled shoulders she’s been carrying a heavy load

So he won’t greet her with a temperamental episode.

She starts to wonder why they headed down this endless road

Employment hours may have lessened, the stress has grown

I’m trying to save her from a hell that only heaven knows

As she turns into a withered pile of flesh and bones

She follows instincts she still has yet to trust

She scribbles franticly forgetting what the lesson was

She can catch a better buzz if it ever comes

She’s waiting on a lost letter that never does

Now that I’ve given up and settled down

I found a better paying job in a better town

I’ve got a better house, better way to get around

For worse or better every king wears a heavy crown

So every hour I spend wishing I hadn’t left

Is just another destiny I couldn’t manifest

A frantic mess, wishing that it mattered less

Always knowing there’s no cure for a man obsessed.

I followed instincts I still have yet to trust

I should’a known that we were more in lust and less in love

Nightly I increase the pressure 'til the stress is numb

I wish it helped me to forget her — it never does.