when you decided to leave i never asked where you'd gone when you decided to leave i left you alone it don't mean much to me what all you did while you're gone it don't mean much to me as long as you come home i try to be a good man but i've done so wrong for so long i don't know if i can help but be a bad man i know that you loved me once and i took for granted the time i know that you loved me once when you were mine when you decided to leave i was so young and so bold and then you decided to leave i got tired and old i try to be a good man but i've done so wrong for so long i don't know if i can help but be a bad man