You say, I only hear what I want to.
You say, I talk to all the time. So?
And I thought what I felt was simple.
And I thought that I don’t belong.
And now that I am leavin’
Now I know that I did something wrong.
‘Cause I missed you, yeah, I missed you.
And you say, I only hear what I want to.
I don’t listen hard, I don’t pay attention
To the distance that you’re running to anyone, anywhere.
I don’t understand if you really care.
I’m only hearing negatives, no, no, no, bad.
So I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up,
And this woman was singin’ my song.
Lovers in love and the others run away.
The lover is cryin’ ‘cause the other won’t stay.
Some of us hover when we weep for the other
Who was dyin’ since the day they were born,
Well, this is not that.
I think that I’m throwin’, but I’m thrown.
And I thought I’d live forever, but now I’m not so sure.
You try to tell me that I’m clever, but that won’t take me anyhow,
Or anywhere with you.
And you said that I was naïve and I thought that I was strong.
I thought, “Hey, I can leave, I can leave, oh.”
But now I know that I was wrong
‘Cause I missed you, yeah, I missed you.
You said you caught me ‘cause you want me
And one day you’ll let me go.
You try to give away a keeper, or keep me ‘cause you know
You’re just too scared to lose.
And you say, “Stay.”
You say I only hear what I want to.
"It's a song about an argument. It's one of our more gentle songs, but it fits with the rest of the album. When I started writing it I was thinking about Daryl Hall and some of his sweeter radio songs."