[Verse 1]
The two storey house where we started again
With the flaking white paint on the garage door
Trying to skate in the driveway on a hand me down skateboard
I left my skin on the asphalt, the closest to pain that I'd felt
Too young to know what lonely was
Just you and three kids in an empty fucking house
I never noticed, I never saw the pain
When fourteen years meant shit that day
It never mattered so much to me
(It never changed a thing)

[Verse 2]
The tests came in, you were sick
But it's not like I didn't care, I just couldn't hear it
A wheelchair would never take my mum if I just ignored it
You said we'd never have it differently from the kids that were given everything
So instead I'd throw it in your face
The thought of letting someone in
(The thought of letting someone in)

[Chorus 1]
Mum, now that I’ve been in love myself
I can’t imagine how it felt
To be told that you could never love another man
Not like you had it easy, not like you came out even
Not like I could ask for any more than you’d already given
And it makes me sick, the bad luck had nothing to do with it
Just the heartless human beings, that you called your family
[Bridge]
Apologise, you’ll never get those years back
But you smiled through all of it
Apologise, you’ll never get those years back
But you smiled through all of it

[Chorus 2]
Now that I've been in love myself
I can't imagine how it felt
To be told that you could
Never love another man

[Outro]
And I know even after everything I’ve done
All I ever had to do was call
But I’ve lost sleep over the thought of forgiveness