Stupid Boy

Halle and I were driving in the car yesterday, running errands and singing along to her favorite Justin Bieber songs, when the cd switched to our favorite country cd mix. The song "Stupid Boy" by Keith Urban came on and we were listening, and I found my self singing along to the words.



I heard this song for the first time a few weeks ago when Amy and I were driving home from St. George in her car. I don't know why I have never heard this song before, but needless to say, it hit pretty close to home for me and pretty much sums everything up. Especially the line towards the end:

It took awhile
for her to figure out
that she could run
and when she did
she was .... long gone ..... long gone


But the part that gets me every time is the very end, which you could easily miss because the song almost sounds like it's over, but then at the end, you hear him sing with so much emotion and feeling that you find yourself wishing the girl would just take him back - no matter what he did:

Oh, nobody's ever gonna love me like she loved me
And she loved me, she loved me
God please just let her know I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry baby
Yeah, I'm down on my knees
She's never comin' back to me

Problem is, I never heard or felt those words from a certain boy at the end. So here I sit .... still a little bit in shock that I'm here .... alone .... hating the whole dating thing ..... missing being married so bad it hurts.

Then, as we're listening to the song Halle says "Mom, we don't say 'stupid."

"You're right Halle, we don't," I say, but in my heart I'm thinking "but what if it's the only word that fits?"

Stupid, stupid boy ......

Well she was precious like a flower
She grew wild, wild but innocent
A perfect prayer in a desperate hour
She was everything beautiful and different
Stupid boy...you can't fence that in
Stupid boy...it's like holdin' back the wind

She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and you crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
Stupid boy
Stupid boy

So what made you think you could take a life
And just push it, push it around
I guess to build yourself up so high
You had to take her and break her down
Oh...

She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy

Oh you always had to be right
And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive

She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy
Oh, I'm the same old, same old stupid boy

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, long gone

Oh she's gone
She's long gone
Yeah she is
Yeah, ohhh

Oh, nobody's ever gonna love me like she loved me
And she loved me, she loved me
God please just let her know I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry baby
Yeah, I'm down on my knees
She's never comin' back to me