Lets go back to the beginning
Lets play it over from the start
Find out where it slipped up
Pinpoint where it began to fall apart
My lips will quiver
And your legs will shake
Drum it on the desk
As we toss our eyes from right to left
Trying to remember the days gone past
And what it was
That threw us from the ride
We thought might last
You're a fool for caring
They all say with a grin
Cos apparently it's cooler
To forget the places you've been
And be just another
Empty face walking dead
In the crowd
That of a heart
That beats in your chest
Rebelling against the pain
Of what could have come next
And the art we refer to as love
Nursing that ego back to health
I know it has been a task
But even though it hasn't been long
I can see that you'll make it last
Although of course you're not alone
You've hired yourself a little help
Got yourself a nurse
To inject you when it hurts
Inhaling breathes of sugary treats
Has become your latest drug
But will her little box of pills
Be the answer to what is lost
It didn't take long for me to see
That you aren't like my heart at all
Cos you're the same fool
You always were
When you wear it on your sleeve
Just like me torn from underneath
But you'll dress it up pretty in an attempt
And hang it like the button you hoped it would be
Cos you've got no other way
So you do what you do best
And paint a picture with the pain
Of what is aching in your chest
These tales roll into souls
That are bound and kept for life
Somewhere safe and sound
Under the lonely bed
Or scattered on the floor
Where you rest your head
When you're tired and drop
For another night
Of dirty restless sleep
And when you wake
The tired tortured love
Is replayed once again
But never lived out twice
Just one chance, that's all you get
So don't be too scared
To say it in advance
That you're in or you're out
Of the game for this round
You'll thank me in the end
For what I'm doing to you now
When you're looking around
And you have
What you wanted then
Still shiny and shimmery
From the worth that it found
Or for another ending
If you don't like the one above
You'll lay still in the long grass
Buried beneath a sea of love
Unwanted weeds and rocks
Covering your dainty skin
And all that purity you own
A depth I thought was known
Is what I've found has disappeared
And now I'm forcing myself
To be an actor up on stage
And play the part
Of the one who doesn't care
So am I convincing?
