You know you’re beautiful, like no one else,
\nI’ve seen the way you hold yourself:
\nThat shameless poise as you just pass through
\nHolding my heart like I belonged to you<\/p>\n
What is it you do not see
\nTo make you find it easy to discard me?
\nWhat is it you love so much more
\nThat you’d walk out and shut the door?<\/p>\n
You know you’re so talented, so self-made,
\nI’ve seen the wealth and the accolades:
\nDropped a trifle in my palm,
\nWrote me off without a qualm<\/p>\n
What is it makes you not care
\nDespite all we promised to share?
\nWhat is it you want so much less
\nThat you’d shatter my heart and leave it a mess?<\/p>\n
You know you’re so very skilled at love,
\nI remember the things we’d both dream of:
\nThat passionate demand in my ear
\nMaking me wish I could hold you near<\/p>\n
What is it makes you disappear,
\nPretend we were not and just wander clear?
\nWhat is it you get with her
\nTo pretend that you and I never were?<\/p>\n
You know your life is so very nice,
\nFamily so lovely as to entice,
\nHome so calm my own dreams I might sell
\nIf I didn’t know your wishes so well<\/p>\n
What is it makes you shield your heart
\nWhen we’ve finally managed a belated start?
\nWhat is it makes you act this way
\nWhere I’m so damned sure you’ll go away?<\/p>\n
You know you’re just so very smart
\nI gave you my whole life to take apart,
\nI’d have been with you a million years
\nBut you left me spilling a heart full of tears<\/p>\n
What is it you loathed so much
\nThat you tore me apart, gave so rare a touch?
\nWhat is it makes you blind to see
\nThat it was your problem more than it was me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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