Stop Making This Hurt

(album: Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night - 2021)

Daniel puts the kids to bed, they're screaming, oh the gods must be crazy
Well Jimmy's on the road tonight, she doesn't recognize her country
My father's in the room next door crying with his ma at sixty-five
Well, every time I close my eyes I just see you written in big lights

You know what it says?

Stop making this hurt
And say goodbye like you mean it
Stop trying on this hurt
Just say goodbye like you mean it
Say goodbye like you mean it

My mamma's in the house tonight tryna break free of New Jersey
While the kids are on the street, and they're crying, "Let me live in my country"
But me and Ray
We got a dream and a car, we're like free as the night
So how come every time I take a drive I just see it written on street signs?

And you know what it says?

Stop making this hurt
And say goodbye like you mean it
Stop trying on this hurt
Just say goodbye like you mean it
Just say goodbye like you mean it

But if we take the sadness out of Saturday night
I wonder what we'll be left with anything worth the fight?
I wanna run from the darkness, wanna shout at the light
It's coming over me now
Two, three, four, five
Oh God, we barely survived

Just say goodbye like you mean it

Stop making this hurt
Say goodbye like you mean it (Say goodbye like you mean it)
Just say goodbye like you mean it
Stop making this hurt (Say goodbye like you mean it)
Say goodbye like you mean it (Say goodbye like you mean it)
Say goodbye like you mean it

Come on, baby, baby, baby...
Stop making this hurt