You said it'll be funYou toyed with my feelingsPlayed with my trustI played alongI played this cruel game of yoursNow I'm betterHow does it feel to lose to a girl.
I was once a flowerBut every time I fell deeper in love with youThe more petals we're stolen from meUntil I was fully revealedAnd I couldn't hide the feelings anymore.
How is it soThat there are two parts of every storyYet everyone seems to always know just oneWhat happens to the other partIs it to be forgotten and justice put to nothingOr does it not matter that the other person is hurtingIt's doesn't matter, does it?
I would not feign a single sighNor weep a single tear for thee:The soul within these orbs burns dry;A desert spreads where love should be.I would not be a worm to crawlA writhing suppliant in thy way;For love is life, is heaven, and allThe beams of an immortal day.For sighs are idle things and vain,And tears for idiots vainly fall.I would not kiss thy face againNor round thy shining slippers crawl.Love is the honey, not the bee,Nor would I turn its sweets to gallFor all the beauty found in thee,Thy lily neck, rose cheek, and all.
Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terriblewhips,And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the treeShrieked and slashed the wind, as a ship'sWeird rigging in a storm shrieks hideously.Within the house two voices arose in anger, a slenderlashWhistling delirious rage, and the dreadful soundOf a thick lash booming and bruising, until itdrownedThe other voice in a silence of blood, 'neath the noiseof the ash.
"Heavenly Father" -- take to theeThe supreme iniquityFashioned by thy candid HandIn a moment contraband --Though to trust us -- seems to usMore respectful -- "We are Dust" --We apologize to theeFor thine own Duplicity --