Every Thing Changes - Tom House

I drove back to Norfolk fully intending

To tell her my mind I was tired of pretending

Something I never was or ever could be

I was sick of that way she kept looking at me

She’s pregnant and pissed and telling me why

She’s drinking beer and smoking said she couldn’t stop

I was never really sure she said I was the father

She could have been lying so I didn’t bother

Chorus: People fall into patterns of deceit

Life’s like an accident waiting to happen

A package tied up with ribbons so neat

I don’t think so the crowd’s stomping and clapping

Now everyone needs everyone uses

Everything changes everyone chooses

And everything comes to a head

Everything comes to a head

Now Brent he’s back from the navy or jail

Or somewhere sometimes it’s hard to tell

She’s leaning up against him talking ‘bout back when

They was hot for each other it could be that way again

She’s all up in his ear making it clear

They’re shooting the whiskey chasing it beer

I love him she shouts out I never did love you

I tell her hell that’s what I been waiting to hear

And the band starts the second or the third set I forget

An old friend comes in we go out blow a number

Later on the band’s cranking she’s all over the place

Way she always was up in my face

And goddamn this old world and the way that it is

The music’s just ugly and pounding and loud

She wants to know why it turned out this way

But I don’t know so I don’t say

And she’s out there dancing so alone and above

Them all she don’t care she’s so crazy and wild

Way she was I first met her I think that’s what I used to love

She was younger and free and had her own style

Now Brent’s back from the dead a thick tongue in his head

I’m gonna kick your ass he slips as he slurs

Like you really could I’m thinking laughing to myself

Cause tonight he ain’t my problem he’s hers

And I swallow a bottle burns all the way down

Got a rage needs a stage but what would it matter

Nothing at all I know that now

Throw that bottle just past his head

Against the wall to hear it shatter