You Should've Left Me Alone (High Plains)

Intro I gave you a hundred chances to walk away. You took none of 'em.

Verse 1 I wasn't lookin' for a war that day Head down low, mindin' my own You saw a man who'd just turn and walk away And you decided I'd look better on my knees, alone I gave you every off-ramp, every door Said "let it go" more times than I can count But you kept diggin' for the man I was before And hell — congratulations, you dug him out

Chorus You should've left me alone Should've let a sleepin' dog lie in the sun You kicked a quiet man off his bone Now there ain't no un-ringin' this gun

Verse 2 There's a version of tonight where you went home Where you swallowed that last word and let it die But you needed me broken, needed me shown — So don't you dare act shocked, don't you ask me why

Chorus You should've left me alone Should've let a sleepin' dog lie in the sun You kicked a quiet man off his bone Now there ain't no un-ringin' this gun

Bridge I didn't want this, God as my witness, no I'd have died an easy, quiet, forgotten man But you reached in the dark and you pulled the trigger slow So now we both live with the man you began You should've left me alone Should've let a sleepin' dog lie in the sun You kicked a quiet man off his bone Now there ain't no un-ringin' this gun

Outro Alone. That's all you had to do.

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