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*I'm sorry for everything, oh, everything I've done*
Nothing in life ever came easy to me, so after Kiara Carrera put her hands on either side of my face to kiss me and confess her love in cabin six of Camp Kitty Hawk, I knew I would work hard and do anything to keep the girl of my dreams.
*Am I out of touch? Am I out of my place?*
How am I going to keep Kie when her parents hate me though? All they care about is how I’m Lukes son and that I must be like him.
*When I keep saying that I'm looking for an empty space*
Yea, I’ve stolen before, Mikes money clip included, but I only steal because I have too. They don’t know what it’s like to not have any food to eat or soap to bathe with. I couldn’t pick the parents I was born with.
*Oh, I'm wishin' you're here but I'm wishin' you're gone*
Maybe she’ll be better off without me, it’s not like I have anything to offer. No parents, no place to live, no future.
*I can't have you, and I'm only gonna do you wrong*
That’s why I tried so hard to push John B and Pope towards her. They would be able to give her things I never could.
*Oh, I'm gonna mess this up*
No! I love her.
*Oh, this is just my luck*
I can change how her parents view me, I can have a future.
*Over and over and over again*
With her, I can.
*I'm sorry for everything, oh, everything I've done*
I just have to show people that I’m not just my last name, I’m not just Luke’s son, I’m not just some boy from the cut who steals and cheats.
*From the second that I was born, it seems I had a loaded gun*
If they only knew how hard I work to live.
*And then I shot, shot, shot a hole through everything I loved*
Everyone will know I am good enough for Kiara.
*Oh, I shot, shot, shot a hole through every single thing that I loved*
The pogues, we found the merchant gold, yea we lost it but we still found it. Put in the effort and work and did something other people only dreamed about.
*Am I out of luck? Am I waiting to break?*
I don’t know why I’m worrying about what Mike and Anna and the residents of Kildare are thinking of me.
*When I keep saying that I'm looking for a way to escape*
Kiara has confessed her love to me, she knows I’m good enough for her.
*Oh, I'm wishing I had what I'd taken for granted*
Why can’t I believe that though? I know deep down I’m gonna screw it up and I can’t get that out of my head.
*I can't have you when I'm only gonna do you wrong*
One day she’ll wake up and see she’s missing out and her parents were right.
*Oh, I'm gonna mess this up
Oh, this is just my luck
Over and over and over again*
No! Stop it. Stop thinking like this, you are good enough for her.
*I'm sorry for everything, oh, everything I've done*
You stood up to her parents.
*From the second that I was born, it seems I had a loaded gun*
You took a chance in finding her when she was taken.
*And then I shot, shot, shot a hole through everything I loved*
I’d go any lengths to find her.
*Oh, I shot, shot, shot a hole through every single thing that I loved*
She is my sun in the sky.
*In the meantime, we let it go
At the roadside we used to know*
She is my pearl in an oyster.
*We can let this drift away
Oh, we let this drift away*
She is everything to me and I will not fail her.
*At the bay side, we used to show
In the moonlight, we let it go*
If I can get Barracuda Mike to agree to a crazy plan.
*We can let this drift away
Oh, we let this drift away*
Then I can be the best man there is to be for Kiara.
*And there's always time to change your mind
Oh, there's always time to change your mind*
Staring at her in the middle of a field with the lights and wind of the flying RV weighing heavy on us.
*Oh, love, can you hear me?*
When she asks me if I’m sure, all I can say is you got anywhere else to be?
*Oh, let it drift away*
When she responds with “not anymore” that’s when I knew, she loves me, she loves JJ Maybank, the boy that never got anything right his whole life until I snuck in to cabin six to save her and she’ll trust me all her life to love her back.