i want you ... take 2

i want you ... take 2

close your dark dishonest eyes
that have turned your promises
into a hundred alibis
stark loops and whorls
scrawled in the notes you left behind
forming cruel words of such solemn goodbyes

i've said this so many times before
i want you so much
but i don't want you anymore

take your suitcase of endless sorrows
that you've secretly packed
to cancel all our waiting tomorrows
and leave before the bow is bent
its string pulled taut
to deliver regret's killing arrows

i've said this so many times before
i want you so much
but i don't want you anymore

empty the vase of bright red roses
wilting like a bouquet of the deadest dreams
and before the final curtain closes
know that my heart is where
rats feed on wounded romantics
where every hopeless hope decomposes

i've said this so many times before
i want you so much
but i don't want you anymore

find strength in every other man
who offers you a softer pillow
just remember if you think you can
how a love so true
collapsed with a sudden end
almost as soon as it began

i've said this so many times before
i want you so much
but i don't want you anymore