‘Fingerprints'

As I pass your prison cell
I see you're doing well
At whey they call ‘a lengthy spell
Behind bars'
And, as I pass your prison cell
Do I sense within myself
The slightest pang of regret
At the countless chalk marks…?

And that's when I find I relive
The tearing despair and anguish
When you extinguished my fire, and left me in the cold and dark…

You left me with nothing
You thought you'd get away with it
You believed you'd escape justice
For tearing me apart
But one thing you didn't think –
You'd left your fingerprints,
Smudges, smears and blemishes
All over my heart

As I pass your prison cell
The warden is sad to tell
Me that you've ‘gone into a shell' -
As if your sentence is harsh!
Oh, as I pass your prison cell
I detect the temptation swell
To rhyme this with the word ‘hell'
…But I shan't…

And that's when I'm forced to revisit
The intense dread of being finished
When the only self-control left is self harm…

You really thought you could give
The love police the slip
You saw all the ‘wanted'
Posters – and laughed
But one thing you didn't think –
You'd left your fingerprints,
Smudges, smears and blemishes
All over my heart

Oh, I've never thought myself vindictive
But somehow, I've lost the forgiveness
I might once have had for you, in the
Distant past
‘Cause now, I can't help myself sinking
Beneath the sea of tears I keep refilling
Each time the drugs that stop me thinking
Lose their spark

And stress – emotional and physical
Has changed me…has aged me…so brittle…
Oh, everyone chants:
“Move on”, but I can't
‘Cause I miss you
I miss you
I miss your arms…