Truths Quietly Spoken

Truths quietly spoken reflect promises already broken
As spiders crawl across the floor of stagnant emotions
Spinning tales of love's deceit inside a wicked web of lies
Held together delicately by gossamer threads of silence

Inside your house of fallen cards chaste ghosts dance
Amongst life's fading memories hanging on the wall
Pretty pictures of days gone past love that didn't last
A life amidst phallic ruins of long forgotten yesteryears

Oh I'm so tired of playing love's ingenue for you
Tired of keeping myself calm inside this storm
So I'm gonna exit out the back door of betrayal
While you exorcise past loves from your mind
Don't you wonder who'll crawl out from behind

Don't you know I don't want your
Promises, promises, promises
Promises trapped inside bated breath
Promises that are lies left unspoken
Don't you know I don't need your
Promises, promises, promises
Promises made of jaded glass
Promises lying on the ground broken

Truths quietly spoken reflect promises already broken
As you sit inside your never ending chaos of delirium
Chewing on hallucegenic thoughts time never bought
But rather left you begging to borrow another tomorrow

Slowly you walk down life's sidewalk of discontent
One foot in the gutter one hand reaching for the stars
The other foot tripping over an emotional red carpet
While your other hand tries to keep regrets at bay

Oh I'm so tired of this endless emotional tug 'o war
Tired of keeping myself calm inside this storm
So I'm gonna exit out the back door of betrayal
While you exorcise past loves from your mind
Don't you wonder who'll crawl out from behind

Don't you know I don't want your
Promises, promises, promises
Promises trapped inside bated breath
Promises that are lies left unspoken
Don't you know I don't need your
Promises, promises, promises
Promises made of jaded glass
Promises lying on the ground broken

Truths quietly spoken reflect promises already broken
Like a fragile china doll misstepping to its fall
Shattering into a thousand tiny fractured pieces
Not even love can put her back together again

Not even time can put us back together again
Not even hope can interlock the pieces of this puzzle
That post-coital charades after party masquerades
Broke into a thousand jagged little pieces

Oh I'm so tired of playing spin the poly-bottle
Tired of keeping myself calm inside this storm
So I'm gonna exit out the back door of betrayal
While you exorcise past loves from your mind
Don't you wonder who'll crawl out from behind

Don't you know I don't want your
Promises, promises, promises
Promises trapped inside bated breath
Promises that are lies left unspoken
Don't you know I don't need your
Promises, promises, promises
Promises made of jaded glass
Promises lying on the ground broken

Truths quietly spoken reflect promises already broken
Under sanguine skies that blackened empty dreams
You secretly kept inside your wooden box of hope
That was misplaced along with our forgotten love

Silence has created a chasm between time and space
I know things will never be the way they used to be
So I'll leave us behind erase you from my mind
Pretend we never were as tomorrows pass me by

Oh I'm so tired of assuaging wounds of our love
Tired of keeping myself calm inside this storm
So I'm gonna exit out the back door of betrayal
While you exorcise past loves from your mind
Don't you wonder who'll crawl out from behind

Don't you know I don't want your
Promises, promises, promises
Promises trapped inside bated breath
Promises that are lies left unspoken
Don't you know I don't need your
Promises, promises, promises
Promises made of jaded glass
Promises lying on the ground broken