Chances

I'll tell you what they don't say about changing

When you finally get it right you're sitting there alone

The person that you were left quite a mess behind 'em

And the person that you now are ain't got no home

I see myself too clearly now

Every bridge I burned

Every way I let ya'll down

Got a PhD in fucking up

But nobody's around

To see me in my cap and gown

They say the girl who cried wolf

Got what she deserved

But I was crying crazy

'Cause my voice was never heard

Now I'm sitting with the truth

Still no one's gonna hear

'Cause I used up all my chances

Over all those youthful years

Decades don't wash away this feeling in my chest

Still young and dumb just got more scars to confess

I learned my lessons but they came too late to count

Now I'm finally seein' sense but there's no one around

We'll fail at guitar fifty times

We call that learning

But hurt someone twice

And watch the tables turning

If love was unconditional

Like we all pretend

Maybe second chances

Wouldn't be where stories end

They're protecting themselves

From someone I know is dead

But ghosts look just like people

When they live inside our heads

I also protect myself

From who I used to be

But that person is the only one

Who still gives time to me

Decades don't wash away this feeling in my chest

Still young and dumb just got more scars to confess

I learned my lessons but they came too late to count

Now I'm finally seein' sense but there's no one around

But somewhere out in the big wide world

There are strangers who haven't heard the stories

Who'll meet me as I am without the shadow of my shame

Till then I'll sing this lonely song play these same sad chords

'Cause the person I'm still becoming is worth waiting for