Tampa Lyrics

I don't stay in one town very long anymore

But I got a place in Tampa and she lived next door

She carved names in fences like her own tattoos

So we had a cup of coffee, I said, I gotta ask you

I said, you seem so angry

She said, believe me, you would be too

You don't know what I've been through

I'm telling you

I wasn't always this way

Talked to the other girls that he played

We made a plan, built our walls so high

Covered them in orange paint and in barbed wire

Kept out the bad guys, at least for a little while

But every time I tried, he'd come back to me

In the middle of my worst nights, my worst nights

He'd come back, he'd come back, he'd come back, he'd come back

Well, I had a flight to Memphis Monday after dark

Gave her the keys to the Bentley, left the black card

I asked no questions, but I'd heard them say

They'd see her driving down by the railway

They said, she seems so angry

I think, believe me, you would be too

You don't know what she's been through

I'm telling you

She wasn't always this way

Talked to the other girls that he played

We made a plan, built our walls so high

Put on our leather coats and our thigh highs

Kept out the bad guys, at least for a little while

But every time we tried

He'd come back to her in the middle of her worst nights, her worst nights

He'd come back, he'd come back, he'd come back, he'd come back

Now no one's heard from us in a little over two months

And it got real bad in Florida, so now we're on the run

And that same old Bentley sits abandoned by the tracks

You know the five of us ain't ever coming back

They're just as angry

Baby, believe me, you would be too

You don't know what we've been through (woah)

We weren't always this way

Joined up with the other girls that he played

We made a plan, knocked down our walls so high

Now we run the town, every night rolling snake eyes

Now we're the bad guys, at least for a little while

And we sleep just fine, knowing he's never coming back

In the middle of her worst nights (no)

He's never coming back, he's never coming back, he's never coming back alive

He's never coming back, he's never coming back, he's never coming back alive