I settled for love that only left me scarred Only told me I'm gorgeous when he set my heart And I cried in the bathroom while he played guitar And now I lay in the bedroom and I travel far He called me a flower and still broke my heart Oh, he picked all my petals and tore me apart Now I'm out in the garden, cause love didn't last in real life So I spend my time reading about it Turning pages and pages, allowing myself to fade in the story about him Kissed me in chapters, loved me in writing I'll be your coach in the thunder and lightning We'll have a house and the house is a home And the home has a fence and I won't be alone Leave a kiss on my forehead and I won't have to worry Cause our hearts never break if we're living in a story And I'll make you breakfast and some for the kids And they'll play piano and take vitamins And they'll believe in love cause they look up to us And you would just adore me living in a story A story I know like the back of my hand Hope you read every line so you understand All the reasons for why and the reasons we can be I'm perfectly perfect, I promise it's worth it It's easy, lost in the memory we're painting A cover of a book we've been making It's heartbreaking because I spent a lot of time reading about it Turning pages and pages, allowing myself to fade in the story about him Kissed me in chapters, loved me in writing I'll be your coach in the thunder and lightning We'll have a house and the house is a home And the home has a fence and I won't be alone Leave a kiss on my forehead and I won't have to worry Cause our hearts never break if we're living in a story And I'll make you breakfast and some for the kids And they'll play piano and take vitamins And they'll believe in love cause they look up to us And you would just adore me living in a story There'll be no pain and no crying No sitting in silence, no wishing for change No change in my dying No guilt on your conscience, no blood on your hands No salt in our seas, no stones in our sand There's no hatred or violence, no little white lion No waiting for pain, no love when required No thorns in my roses, no sorrow unplanned Till then I'm content with my book in my hand