it s been this many years it s been that many years and still have to ask the same question why why don t it feel like it felt on the first night when you and me would kiss like remember what we tripped like why don t it feel like felt on the first night now it s so hard to find two words to say funny me funny you don t have nothing left in common you wanted me to have your heart now you want it back what about the promise you made to me that you wouldn t trade the key in for no damn reason and suddenly we re flying high now it s mayday we re falling fast you re trying to get lost i m trying to pull up and damn i can t say you said you didn t need me i really didn t think that you would leave me why don t it feel like it felt on the first night when you and me would kiss at night remember what we tripped like why don t it feel like felt on the first night now it s so hard to find two words to say now the kids are looking at me like i m to blame no longer got their respect for me in what i m saying i know how it feels to be ashamed because when i was young i felt that pain too and i can t say nothing that would cause you to make a change and that s the reason that we re going our separate ways who am i fooling what am i doing thinking you love me  why don t it feel like it felt on the first night when you and me would kiss like remember what we tripped like why don t it feel like felt on the first night now it s so hard to find two words to say you would think by this time i would get it right know the schemes and the things that make it be right when you said you could stay no longer i thought i had just a little more daylight like when we use to turn a fight into a good night i know the things i use to do to make you feel right i would give anything the fortune i made to bring back the days when the feeling was so right so right why don t it feel like it felt on the first night when you and me would kiss at night remember what we tripped like why don t it feel like felt on the first night now it s so hard to find two words to say why the dreams we had we threw them all away why the dreams we had we let them slip away