There's a half-smoked cigarette
With a lipstick stain in the ashtray
There's a burnt out flame
With a head full of cocaine heading my way
With his bloodshot eyes, he says
"Baby, don't you see how I've changed? "
But taking him back would taste just like that
Half-smoked cigarette with a lipstick stain

His words are drowned in whiskey
But all his arrows just miss me

The nerve of a man, the nerve of a man
Expecting a second chance with a touch of his hand
The nerve of a man, the nerve of a man
Goddamn, I'll nevеr understand the nervе of a man

There's an off-cuff joke through the smoke
That he hopes will get to me
But who's laughing now?
This time around, the silence is deafening
His shameless confidence
Washes like chalk on the driveway
When the off-cuff joke
That he just knows will get to me
Don't get to me

His words are drowned in whiskey
But all his arrows just missed me

The nerve of a man, the nerve of a man
Expecting a second chance with a touch of his hand
The nerve of a man, the nerve of a man
Goddamn, I'll never understand the nerve of a man

If it's your master plan to get me back, I'm sorry
Can't fly across the country and just crash my party
Did you not think I was gonna see right through
Your song and dance?
No, there's no chance in hell
How dare you

The nerve of a man, the nerve of a man
Expecting a second chance with a touch of his hand
The nerve of a man, the nerve of a man
Goddamn, I'll never understand the nerve of a man