Rode all the way down memory lane where 65 ends
Wonderin' how it'd feel to see the one that got away again
Hopin' it might go down like that hometown unanswered prayer
My hero sang about on an old burned CD we shared

Somethin' on the interstate told me
I was headed straight for your pretty storm
That the hurt was still gon' be there just like
your name on my arm
Even got real with a girl I chill with up in Chapel Hill
Told her you were gonna be here
just in case my heart was still
In Mobile

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?
(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)
I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?
(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)

Ain't no tellin', girl, how long it's been
since we did all that shoutin'
Probably ten months, twenty-seven days, somethin' like that
But hey, who's countin'?
Oh, you know, just livin' the dream
home is where the bus is
I could say time looks fine on you, but
It wouldn't do it justice, it wouldn't do it justice

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?
(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)
I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?
(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)

I don't think your stomach's supposed
to hurt quite like this
When you run into a girl you forgot you missed
It's like the space between us only made me numb
Thought I could just see you and be okay
But I'm not okay, girl
Tell me that smile on your face is so fake
And that it's all comin' back, comin' back, comin' back
I just have to ask, have to ask, have to ask

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?
(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)
I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?
(Why do you have to be so beautiful?)

I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful?
(I don't think your stomach's supposed
to hurt quite like this)
I said, baby, why do you have to be so beautiful? (Yeah)
(Thought I could just see you and be okay)
(But I'm not okay, girl)