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You Only Hurt the Ones You Love

from Third Act Problems by Derek Brink

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This one kind of explains itself. Most of them probably do.

I say a lot of stuff thinking I’m being funny and sometimes the person on the receiving end doesn’t agree. Not because they “don’t get it” or because of a difference in taste…but because what I thought was “funny” was personal and ended up being hurtful. I’m working on it. I’ve been working on it forever. It just happens. I think it happens to all of us…but i hate it when it happens to me. I want to make people laugh.

You’ve got to time stuff right. You’ve got to have the right audience. And sometimes you need to play it through in your head and just realize “that’s a shitty thing to say” and shut up. When you slip up, all you can do is hope the other person is forgiving. Thankfully, I’ve been luckier than I haven’t.

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I said something stupid.
It wasn’t supposed to be stupid.
That’s how stupid things work.
Thought I was being funny 
but you weren’t laughing.
Sometimes stupid jokes hurt.

You only 
hurt the 
ones you love.

I said something thoughtless.
I should’ve thought about it.
I think about it all the time now.
I said something stupid, 
‘cause my mouth was open, 
and that’s just the sound that comes out.

You only 
hurt the 
ones you love.

It’s not that you heard it.
It’s that I said it.
You’ll forgive and forget it.
I won’t forget.
It’s not that you heard it.
It’s that I regret it.
I know you won’t let it 
but it could’ve torn us apart.

I said something stupid.
It wasn’t supposed to be stupid.
And it’s likely to happen again.
I won’t mean it
and I’ll live to regret it.
Heaven knows where or when.

You only 
hurt the 
ones you love.

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from Third Act Problems, released March 3, 2023

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