• I beseech thee
    listen to me
    I’ve a story to tell
    one I know all too well
    about a life gone to hell
    see this girl
    the centre of my world
    has become little more than a shell
    of her former self
    robbed of good health
    and discarded like a doll on a shelf
    she looks for me
    to be
    a lifeline
    to help her in kind
    I hold her hand
    help her stand
    make her deals
    prepare her meals
    I’m supposed to smile
    all the while
    as she asks for the simplest things
    and inadvertently yanks at my heart strings
    I’m her angel of hope
    stuck on a noose of rope
    who do I blame
    when she can't remember my name
    what mere man
    can change fates plan
    after twenty years of love we are both damned

    I know it's wrong
    but it's been you and I for so long
    I don't know what I’ll do
    without you when you’re gone

    I wish I were you
    and you were me
    then I’d be free
    never to see
    another day
    of you slipping away

    I watch you rest
    knowing I’ve done my best
    for you today
    in every way
    you smile in your sleep
    I’m glad you can fall so deep
    and leave this world behind
    with your idiot who can only rhyme
    to define the world in his mind
    everyday you say
    you'll be okay
    but hers the kicker
    the doctors beg to differ
    our friends say I’m brave for sticking with you
    but I’m not years ago she made me a believer
    I’ll never leave her
    when she cries
    a part of me dies
    when she goes I’ll be so alone
    as much as I hate it
    there's no way to debate it
    it's inevitable I can't waylay it
    you know how in horror movies at the end the survivors say
    " we made it"
    lees not like that for her it's bullshit
    I wish I could revisit
    the early days
    so I could find new ways
    to say
    I love you
    through and through
    and no matter what we do
    I’ll stand with you
    all the while
    crying while
    you smile your fading smile
    I wish I could live in denial
    with happiness staying at least for a while

    I know it's wrong
    it's been you and I for so long
    I don't know what I’ll do
    without you when you’re gone

    I wish I were you
    and you were me
    then I’d be free
    never to see
    another day
    of you slipping away

    hers the truth
    as I raise the ******** roof
    here is my soul bare to attack
    I can’t turn back
    I’m the angel of hope
    stuck with my bloody noose of rope
    condemned to care
    until she's not there
    and I’ve never been so scared
    in my whole life....

    I know it's wrong
    it's been you and I for so long
    I don't know what I’ll do
    without you when you’re gone

    I wish I were you
    and you were me
    then I’d be free
    never to see
    another day
    of you slipping away