Here we are what is left
           of a husband & a wife,
          with four good kids who 
           have a way of getting
            on with their lives.
           and i'm not old but i'm
            getting a whole lot
             older every day,
           it's too late to keep
             from going crazy
            i've got to get away,
(chorus)  the reason that i can't stay 
         don't have a thing to do with being
                    in love,
         and i understand that loving a man
           shouldn't have to be this 
                      rough.
           you aren't the only one who feels 
          like this world's left you far 
                     behind,
             i don't know why you gotta 
              be angry all the time.  (end chorus)
          our boys are strong now, the spitting
           image of you when you were young,
          i hope someday that they can see past
                what you have become.
            and i remember every time i said
                     i'd never leave,
            but what i couldn't live with was
                 memories of the way you 
                       used to be.
                     (chorus)
             twenty years have came and went
                  since i walked out of 
                     your door,
             i never quite made it back to the
                  one i was before,
              and god it hurts me to think of
                you for the light in your
                   eyes was gone,
              and sometimes i don't know why
                this old world can't leave
                 well enough alone.
                      (chorus)