I Hope You Learn
Verse 1
You had a problem with my wife.
You made my children pay.
You called your fear a reason
And took them both away.
I had fucking cancer.
I was still their home.
You were supposed to be my family.
You left me sick, alone.
Pre-Chorus
When I broke down with cancer,
They were already gone.
You held that up as evidence
You'd been right all along.
Chorus
I hope regret sits down with you
Where I was meant to be.
I hope it brings you every year
You took away from me.
I hope it keeps you wide awake
With nowhere left to turn.
I hope it hurts to understand.
I hope you learn.
Verse 2
You get another photograph.
I get another year
Of counting up the candles
On a cake that isn't here.
Don't tell me they're still living.
I know. That's half the hell.
Another year they're growing up,
Another funeral bell.
Pre-Chorus
You took them. Then I came apart.
Don't turn those things around.
Don't point to what you left of me
And say that's what you found.
Chorus
I hope regret sits down with you
Where I was meant to be.
I hope it brings you every year
You took away from me.
I hope it keeps you wide awake
With nowhere left to turn.
I hope it hurts to understand.
I hope you learn.
Bridge
If there's a life beyond this one,
I hope you have to see
The day you took my children
From where you left me.
Then every birthday after.
Then that radioactive pill.
Try saying, "We were helping,"
From my side of the phone.
Final Chorus
I hope regret sits down with you
Where I was meant to be.
I hope it brings you every year
You took away from me.
I hope the truth gets through to you
And burns where it should burn.
I hope it hurts to understand.
I hope you learn.
Outro
Before another lifetime.
Before another year.
I hope you learn
While I'm still here to hear it.