I saw you standing in the street
Bitten lips and flushed cheeks
The traffic slows around me
I feel the world collapse beneath my feet
I can hear a siren
In the distance someone's daughter screams

Watch my heart drop and shatter around me
Fall like ash in the lines of the concrete
Hear it scatter, splinter through the sound
Just one look took the wind out my sails
Like a chalkboard and the scratch of a nail

Hit me
Hit me where it hurts
Touch me like you mean it
You couldn't have meant worse
Oh, hit me
Hit me where it hurts
Kiss me till I'm bleeding
It's not like you're the first

Turn on my heels to flee the scene
I feel the image burning in my brain
Eyes water from the sting
Now every fingerprints an ugly stain
Under the glow of streetlights
Did I just see us
In another life?

A punch to the gut and a twist of the knife
A lick of the wound and a bark for your bite
It all comes down to a fist in a fight
A fist in a fight

Hit me
Hit me where it hurts
Touch me like you mean it
You couldn't have meant worse
Oh, hit me
Hit me where it hurts
Kiss me till I'm bleeding
It's not like you're the first

Ooh

Tell me darling
If you're honest
Do you still
Remember August
I won't tell her
If you promise

Hit me
Hit me where it hurts
Touch me like you mean it
You couldn't have meant worse

Hit me
Hit me where it hurts
Kiss me till I'm bleeding
It's not like you're the first