Gabriel is the boy I met in school

Playin' in a band I always knew he liked the blues

We'd sit for hours in my room

Let the alcohol consume

I ask him "Let me crawl in your mind"

But I can read him like an open book

Said, "You want to run away in someplace special?"

"Where everything would change?"

But truth lies in you

Cause even if you were sober, I'm sure you'd hurt me too

Wouldn't you?

Wouldn't you?

Let me let you hurt me too

So I let you tear the bandaid

Fix the parts your mother couldn't

Try to be half the man your father couldn't be for his children

Let you throw up on the counter

Use my clothes to clean it up

Let the bits and pieces left of me

Be the reason you're standing up

Said you want to believe that God is out there somewhere

Sensing impending doom

I knew you were hurting too

But even if you were sober, I'm sure you'd hurt me too

Wouldn't you?

(So I let you tear the bandaid)

Wouldn't you?

(Let you throw up on the counter)

Let me let you hurt me too

(Let the bits and pieces left of me be the reason you're standing up)