You were in college, working part-time, waiting tablesLeft a smile, time never looked backI was a fly at risk, with a fear of fallingWondering why we bother with love, if it never lastsI said, can you believe it?There's no lying on the couchThe moment I could see it, yes, yesI can see it nowYou remember we were sitting there by the waterPut your armor on me for the first timeAin't a rival, I'm a careless man's careful daughterYou are the best thing that's ever been mineFlash forward and we're taking on the world togetherAnd there's a drawer of my things at your placeYou learn my secrets and you figure out why I'm gutteredIt will never make my parents' mistakesBut we got bills to payWe got nothing figured outWhen it was hard to take a yes, yesThis is what I thought aboutYou remember we were sitting there by the waterPut your armor on me for the first timeAin't a rival, I'm a careless man's careful daughterYou are the best thing that's ever been mineYou remember all the city lights on the waterYou suddenly start to believe for the first timeAin't a rival, I'm a careless man's careful daughterYou are the best thing that's ever been mineI remembered out by 2.30 a.m.As everything was slipping right out of our handsI went out crying and you followed me out into the stormBraced myself for the goodbyeCause it's all I've ever knownAnd you took me by surpriseYou said I'll never leave you aloneOh, oh, ohYou said I remember how we felt sitting by the waterAnd every time I look at you it's like the first timeI fell in love with a careless man's careful daughterShe is the best thing that's ever been mineAin't a rival, I'm a careless man's careful daughterYou are the best thing that's ever been mineAin't a rival, I'm a careless man's careful daughterYou are the best thing that's ever been mineDo you believe it?We're gonna make it nowAnd I can see itI can see it now