All my Mistakes

shooting all vicious
collections of words,
losers made facts by
the things they have heard,
and I've find myself trying hard
to defend them.

i made decisions
some right and some wrong,
and I've let some love go
i wish wasn't gone.
These things and more I wish I had not done,
but I have done.

But I can't go back,
and I don't want to,
because all my mistakes
have brought me to you.

I had some friends,
they don't know who i am.
so i write quotations
around the word 'friends'
but I have a couple
that have always been there for me.

And I missed some fun
because I've worked through the dawn,
expecting your praise
when I returned home,
but I paid the cost
because I got left all alone
for the songs.

But I can't go back,
and I don't want to
because all my mistakes
have brought me to you.

And i can't go back.
And I don't want to.
Because all my mistakes,
they have brought me to you.

The Brothers Avett