I Should Have Left You

I should have left you
and I want to see you drown
I’m one in a million
so you cannot let me down
If you leave ill be lonely
I say, if you go ill die
I promise to improve
I promise not to lie

The silence of fire
and the heat will bring you down
everything is held up here by you
A fading desire,
and the mirror shows a clown
but the papers never lie,
and they leave me here to die (and I say)

I should have left you
and I want to see you drown
I’m one in a million
Walking on quiet ground
there’s no way to tell me
whatever way I chose was wrong
I should have left you
cause we didn’t get along

No descending
once you’re in, once out
the cold is reaching through the floor
a silent ending
as you’re reaching for the door,
and it makes me want to shout
scream the words out loud

I should have left you
Never asked for you at all
I’m one in a million
still I was the one you called
but the knowledge is in vain
the milk is on the floor
the pain is me to blame
and you’re out of the door

© 1999 Winn Nielsen