You blew us off
Couldn't make time for me
You left us again
I thought we were family
Everybody needs a code they can live by
Live by
Everybody has a time that they wish they could rewind
Rewind
Everybody needs a code they can live by
Mine was love
Loving you as one of our own
Now it's like we've never met
You drove by without waving hello
I don't know what I did to
Make you act like you were never in my life
But I still love you
This is the code I live by
I look through photographs
Through a glassy-eyed stare
Then put them back
'Cause it's like we're not even there
Everybody needs a code they can live by
Live by
Everybody has a time that they wish they could rewind
Rewind
Everybody needs a code they can live by
You can't choose your family
But we chose you
I thought you chose us
But clearly I'm confused
Delusional and out of my mind
Crazy, not to mention
Behind with the times
I'm the last one to know
And the first one to feel it
I'll bleed the same way
No matter which way you deal it
And it really makes me wonder
If you remember all those years
Or if you were waiting for change
So you wouldn't feel bad and could disappear
All I know is that I feel abandoned
Caught unawares
My emotions completely stranded
And I haven't heard a word
For nearly five years straight
Which confuses me even more
Does love always work this way
Well does it
Everybody needs a code they can live by
Mine was love
Loving you as one of our own
Now it's like we've never met
You drove by without waving hello
(Trying to let that one go)
I don't know what I did to
Make you act like you were never in my life
But I still love you
This is the code I live by
Live by x3
Everybody needs a code they can live by
And mine is love
