[Verse 1]
Late last night I packed my bags and left your place without even a note
Well you'd had too much to drink last night and so the seams began to show
So I told you all the things that you should never ever ever want to know
And you told me that you love me so now it's time for me to go

[Chorus]
The slightest hint of love and I'm gone
I've been through enough to know
That I can't give you what you want
I don't love, I only haunt

[Verse 2]
Your friends they tried to warn you that I wasn't being true
But you romanticized us like that dead boy you wear as a tattoo
And you were sure that you would crack me like the back you never had
But I would prove to be as bastioned as that bastard of a dad

[Chorus]
The slightest hint of love and I'm gone
I've been through enough to know
That I can't give you what you want
I don't love, I only haunt

[Verse 3]
Well I left your town with laundry done and all my debts were paid
I was heading for mistakes out there that I had yet to make
And now the past is creeping up on me but I am not afraid
'cause I'm alone at last, lying in this ballad with an album for a grave

[Chorus]
The slightest hint of love and I'm gone
I've been through enough to know
That I can't give you what you want
I don't love
No I don't love...
And this ain't love...
It's just a song