A stranger walks through this world so cold
Chooses to die before ever getting old
So did you my once loving bride
Before we met you attempted suicide,

My beloved children I thought you'd be there
You're conspicuously absent without a care
Little did I know abandonment was my nightmare
Must have been my fault for taking the dare,

Whatever ever happened to the family?
Just another victim of Hollywood hypocrisy
The stereotypes they make of you and me
Dehumanizing division by their own decree,

Love you were such a mistress there but not
You seduced me but perish the thought
You are the master illusion of all
You set up the man before his crushing fall,

God has become the latest myth
Just a new reason to castigate you with
Oh my absent and estranged bride
I thank you for that grim Cavalry ride,

To all of those I loved and who are now gone
The conversation in my head still goes on
Better the dead than the living who shun
Guilty not innocent unlike life in the ocean,

The spot of wine becomes glass after glass
While reflecting on a troubling past
Life is like a limited funds bank account
You spend and spend thinking you'll never run out,

Then one day after so many defeats looking back
You wonder what you did to deserve the attacks
The sweet fragrance of flowers so fleeting
Unlike the shock of finding your lover cheating,

Oh my Dear I thought you were the one
We'd be together until the end of the setting sun
You pursued me and I thought your love was real
But a woman's heart is just the way a child feels,

Another lonely evening and a spot of wine
Numbs me to my gradual decline
All those times you proclaimed your love
Then why all the despair my little Turtle Dove