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