Wave x Perfect Misery (feat. Kevin Sandbloom) [Live in Phoenix]

Two good things I can say about you are this You birthed my son into existence And you didn't stop me from leaving when I said "this is it" Our exodus brought me to the genesis of a new revelation Shit, leaving you was biblical And for me, critical Because the condition I allowed you to put me in was pitiful And I'm not pissed at you Fact is I knew better I knew what a 57-year relationship looked like from watching my grandparents They showed me what dedication was Time and again I looked up wife in the dictionary and you were never there So I stared Trying to fit square pegs into round holes to make you feel whole Because your soul In my opinion Was the most beautiful thing God ever created Problem was, I hated your spirit If I asked you baby, would you try So I hated your spirit And the exercise of trying to lift yours became way too much on a daily basis Then there were the not too subtle things Case in point: I'm allergic to bullshit, ignorance and apathy Yet everything you watch is on BET And everything you say is me, me, me And woe is me And why you writing poetry You too old to follow your dreams but, why you don't write about me? And I'd reply, I reply 'cause you don't inspire me I was looking for a southern belle And your ass was country as tractor pulls and fried butter But I couldn't stop lovin' you And see that's what love'll do make you see somebody for what they can be Even when they can't see it in themselves I looked so hard trying to find the woman you could be That I lost myself I tried so hard to give you heaven In return all you did was give me hell 'Cause even when I tried to do what you wanted me to do It was never enough What the fuck Is so wrong with your life That saying I love you to your lover doesn't bring a smile to your face? What the fuck is so wrong with your life That saying I love you To your lover Doesn't bring a smile to your face? Oh, if I asked you Baby, would you try? Oh if I asked you Baby would you try? If I held you Baby, would you break Just like a wave You made love similar to getting root canals And I never meant to get on your nerves And I left it alone when the doctor got concerned with the size or your curves See you made me sick To my soul Not because of our self-inflicted nonsense But due to a sense of what we left unaccomplished But these words we'll never speak So go ahead and think what you'd like to think Although everybody that knows me Knows what I do for my son that I love so dearly You would rather have us stay in courts Portraying the characters you like to watch on television See? Even now I'm doing what you want me to Because somebody told you this would make you happy And you listened And nothing that I ever did or said to you Will ever be brought to attention Unless you find someway to bring negative attention to it So we keep playing the blame game And in case your brain is confused I call our son Phoenix since he rose from the ashes of our relationship And despite what you do to me out of spite In spite of the fact that I still don't like that I love you I promise never to disrespect or hate you Bitch If I asked you Baby, would you try Oh if I asked you Baby, would you try Oh if I asked you Baby, would you break Or would you try