The Person You Are Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

I put my forehead to the door 

And I heard the famous sound of infidelity 

Looks like I loved and lost once more, 

Oh, but all's fair in love and war supposedly 

I couldn't even burst in on you 

See scrabbling sheets hear your excuse 

Give you the evil eye or verbal abuse 

Why do you do what you do 

When the things that you do hurt the person you are 

Why do you do what you do 

When the things that you do hurt the person you are 

I slam my glass down on the bar 

And my problems they hit the floor so gracefully 

I don't know where I parked the car 

But that's ok, tonight I'm on the town without me 

Tonight it's just me and my evil twin 

The one who slips one more drink in 

The one who slips away, when I start sinking 

Why do you do what you do 

When the things that you do hurt the person you are 

Why do you do what you do 

When the things that you do hurt theperson you are 

The person you are 

I got a job to pay the rent 

Put people out of work by repositioning 

Now no-one's sitting on the fence 

Whose garden will we end up sitting in? 

It's getting much too hot to heal the sky 

And it hurts too much to open up our eyes 

To fundamental truths that we hold as lies 

Why do we do what we do 

When the things that we do hurt the people we are? 

Why do you do what you do 

When the things that you do hurt the person you are? 

The person you are 

The person you are 

The person.