• Recollecting scraps of my tattered paper heart
    Because I was found wrecked once again on my front lawn
    When I was dreaming I was dreaming in vain
    God didn’t listen and I was left hanging
    But only when I awoke did my acidic brain realize
    He was the one who was broken all along

    He was crying in his thoughts and lied to his tears
    And as he was slowly dying alone in his bed
    I was at my vanity staring at the reason for his pain
    I was screaming selfishness and attention
    While he was bleeding agony and sorrow

    Why couldn’t I see, why couldn’t I see, why did he stay?
    He cleverly hid his emotions while I stood clueless
    And now it’s too late to clean his wounds

    I couldn’t interpret the irony in his compliments
    You’re my angel, you’re so sweet, oh darling
    To keep me from hurting you tainted the truth
    Because now I know that I was the devil
    Then I opened my eyes only to notice too late
    My ceramic angel was shattered

    He was falling from heaven before my eyes
    In his name I grabbed his shaking hand
    Nothing written in stone or in the books
    So I won’t let you go down there

    Just this once and for final
    I’ll kiss it away because this fate isn’t what you deserve
    Reattach your wings so you can fly away
    So you can fly away from me and live again