When it was cold one day you loaned me your jacket
and now you think it's best if we're not together
you say I don't have to give your jacket back
so I'll just sleep with it at night and think of you

I have your jacket, sure, but I don't have you
You say you still like me, but you like every other girl too
so I'll just sleep with your jacket at night and pretend I'm the only one for you

This old jacket
put it on, zip it up, and fall asleep thinking of you
This old jacket
put it on, zip it up, and fall asleep thinking of you

They say it makes it better
if you have something to remember
those things you've lost

But an old jacket just isn't the same
as your happy strange eyes and the way they used to look at me

But it helps, it helps, I can smell the familiar scent of you
it helps, it helps, and remember the way you looked in it
it helps, it helps, and remember the way you looked at me
it helps, it helps, yeah...

So I'll just sleep with your jacket at night and think of you

This old jacket
put it on, zip it up, and fall asleep thinking of you
This old jacket
put it on, zip it up, and fall asleep thinking of you

If we could ever get back
what we used to have
then maybe what I'd do
is take off this old jacket and give it back to you...

Until then
you know just what I'll do
I'll just take your jacket
this old jacket
this stupid jacket
this tear jerkin jacket

And I'll just put it on zip it up and fall asleep thinking of you
Put it on zip it up and fall asleep thinking of you
Put it on zip it up and fall asleep thinking of you