Lyrics:

Your brother cornered me last night at AJ’s hangar

He had the look in his eyes of a stranger

Then he reached for his blade

Told me to say your name

Then everything went black

I woke up with his knife in my left hand

He was staring at the ceiling like what might have been

I grabbed his wallet and your mothers ring and left out the back

 

Then your father showed up to my house with a car full of friends

I hopped 16 fences and crossed the river trying to get away from them

I made it to my brothers, stayed the night and booked a plane to Berlin

I spent the whole damn flight staring out the window

Then writing to you on this napkin

 

You can’t beg forgiveness with men like them

Oh they’ve bent their hearts too far

They don’t understand this thing of ours

This thing our ours

 

When they found Johnny I wasn’t surprised

They pulled him out of the river

His tongue nailed between his eyes

But it was news to me when they found his sister too

 

The RCMP started hanging around

They didn’t say much but I heard it loud

And now I know that what I heard was true

Well some men think they’re above the bible

Some men think they’re above the law

Some men just aren’t born with anything to lose

 

But baby if I die then I’d be nothing

And if I ain’t anything then I ain’t worth loving

Baby I’m afraid of death because I love you

 

Oh the night I met you I crossed my stars

You were driving your daddy’s car

They don’t understand this thing of ours

 

You can’t beg forgiveness with men like them

Oh they’ve bent their hearts too far

They don’t understand this thing of ours

This thing of ours

 

When I was younger I lived on the corner

Above a general store with my mother

Her boyfriend used to leave her black and blue

I spent many nights in my bedroom

Thinking of him and what I’d do ‘til I met your brother

And he taught me that I didn’t have to

 

We took him out in the woods past highway 15

And we worked on his face ‘til he couldn’t be seen

We left him naked, bloody and shivering in the morning dew

And when my poor mother grew sick in the head

Your brother stood by me next to her bed

And he told me that we killed him because we had to

 

You can’t beg forgiveness with men like them

Oh they’ve bent their hearts too far

They don’t understand this thing of ours

Oh the night I met you I crossed my stars

You were driving your daddy’s car

They don’t understand this thing of ours

They don’t understand this thing of ours

They don’t understand this thing of ours

This thing of ours

This thing of ours

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