Only Gotta Start Lyrics

I shouldn't be still playing this stupid bar

Banging out Mr. Brightside again on this guitar

Getting cynical and jaded

Like an old jazz head at Smalls getting faded

It shouldn't be this hard to leave her

The heartbreak and Covid quite the partners

Doubled over wondering why I deserve this

Is this really how the story ends

So I asked Mama, said

Why are my soul and my body playing war in my head

Angel and the devil making love in my bed

How do I stop every way out from turning instead for the worse

She said you only gotta start

Only gotta start

Let go of the dark

Let go of the dark

You only gotta start

Only gotta start

Have a change of heart

Have a change of heart

I shouldn't be still tossing and turning

Where's the power down button for my thinking

Only being honest here in writing

I'll deny it if you ask me in person

I shouldn't be cutting off my old friends

But not making real attempts at new ones

Am I just a stray boat in the ocean

No direction just floating

Well I asked mama said

Why are my soul and my body playing war in my head

Angel and the devil making love in my bed

How do I stop every way out from turning instead for the worse

She said you only gotta start

Only gotta start

Let go of the dark

Let go of the dark

You only gotta start

Only gotta start

Have a change of heart

Have a change of heart

Now there's a knot you can tie at the end of your rope

There's a climb you can take at the end of your slope

Move on

Move on

I shouldn't be still playing this stupid bar

Banging out Mr. Brightside again on this guitar

But if it's all that I amount to

How will I find a way to pull through

Well I only gotta start