Well, the build-up seemed so easy Like nothing could go wrong Nothing in this life prepared me To watch you fighting to hang on And you put so much in For nothing in return And to see you going through this Was the hardest thing i've done To feel so powerless to help you Once your mind was too far gone And you were putting so much in For nothing in return Until they set you free And now that we've come out the other side Two strangers in a town we recognise And we're taking our first cautious steps outside To find out why The ones we love the most we hurt the most And to the ones we hurt the most we give the most And the ones that take the most we need the most Oh, and the ones we need the most we build our hopes upon We build our hopes upon And you were putting so much in So much in And you were putting so much in For nothing in return