The Passerby

If this picture's worth a thousand words let "love" not be the first nor last

My eyes were upside down the first time you turned your back

I wish you never turned your back around after that

Cover up that word, like you cover up your face when you have something to say

Anything to cover up my efforts

Anything to shut me out

Bury those eyes into the bend of your arm

Keep those ribs closed and your heart hidden away from me

I've been wondering what swallowed me into the ocean hidden behind a pretty voice

Whispering promises of warmth

It's not the salt that makes my eyes water

It's the thought that you never even bothered to give me a reason behind letting go of everything I tried to give

I don't know what hurts more, hanging on by a thread or just letting go

We'll never know

It's a constant struggle trying to fill the void that loved one made

And when they're gone it seems no one could ever take their place

You can't just let them go or leave them behind

We once knew love

Until someone you think is gonna be the one to change your life... for the best

Throws you out into the streets with an empty, frozen hands and feet

Still standing here

Cut off the loss, clean the wounds, granted nothing will ever feel the same again

It was all worth nothing

"I'm a loner, " he says

"Born this way a loner I shall stay."

Cursed with heartstrings hanging from his hands and neck

"Dance with me, " she says

"To the melodies of weeping widows and widowers

'Cause tonight we die alone, just like them."

Like a beaten down, dog it's hard to show love

So he shows his teeth instead and spits out blood to anyone that shows him love again

But when no one's around he whimpers through the night and walks around with his tail between his legs

And then you hear him speak

"I would have given you the clothes off my back, choose a bullet over seeing your blood spill, perhaps

But now I'm cold and there's a hole through my chest. A public display of my affection."