Best Thing You Never Had by Butch Walker

Aside from being a heart-on-sleeves lyrics, I just love the instrumentation for this song. Leave it to Butch Walker to write such classics. I always almost cry whenever I hear this song. I can really relate to the frustration.

Hello how you doing?
What's it like to ruin
All my self esteem, let me blow off some steam
For 5 years I've waited,
So why am I jaded
To get back at you
What makes it cool

When you act like nothing ever happened
I feel like I should feel bad
But I can't like someone who thought
They're the only one that mattered
I hope that you're flattered
Cause you broke this down
The best thing that you never had

And it seems like a loss somehow
My heart got lost on
The weight of my head
And my brain cells are dead
And the craziness shows
Now I start to go when
The green turns to red
And I should be dead

When you act like nothing ever happened
I feel like I should feel bad
But I can't like someone who thought they're
the only one that mattered
While my heart got shattered
Like romantic roadkill
My heart is all splattered
Your ego got fatter
And I hope that you're flattered
Cause you broke this down
The best thing that you never had

Like the toilet seat never got lifted
And I pissed on your confidence
When you weren't around,
how can that be?
Don't turn this around
You were the one
Who drove my ass right to the ground

When you act like nothing ever happened
I feel like I should feel bad,
And I can't like
Someone who thought
They're the only one that mattered
While my heart got shattered
Like romantic roadkill
My heart is all splattered
Your ego got fatter
And I hope that you're flattered
Cause you broke this down
You broke this down

The best thing, the best thing,
The best thing that you never had
You never had...

Stateline by Butch Walker

What i really love about Butch Walker's "Letters" album, is that it actually feels like one, a series of letters, a sort of confession to the listening fans, most of which could feel the same heartfelt emotion he feels while singing his songs.

A bonus track from the said album, Stateline is the perferct encore. I would suggest you listen to the song and you'll get what i mean.

Seven Hours till the moon sleeps
I Lose my mind as I drive away
Your Cigarettes are in the back seat
I cant bring myself to throw away

All of the film in the camera that took
all the pictures of the images in my mind

So I'll drive a straight line
Right across the state line
Out on to the ocean, in a moment I'll be gone
Then you wont have to feel torn

Pass the churches filled with guilted faith
They send there hangovers from last night
Wont do me any good to pray, cause even god knows
that you were right

And I was wrong and yeah it kills me
that my kid will never know me, with another man by his side

So I'll drive a straight line
When I cross the state line
Out on to the ocean, in a moment I'll be gone
Then you wont have to feel torn

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

So I'll drive a straight line
When I cross the state line
Out on to the ocean, in a moment I'll be gone

So I'll drive a straight line
When I cross the state line
Out on to the ocean, in a moment I'll be gone

You wont have to feel torn
Have to feel torn

Thinking of you with my last breathe