Your Smooth Silken Skin

Knowing I’ll never completely be the same

Even though I could easily point to you as the blame

The time I wasted in anguish shame, shame, shame

What is love and life but a pathetic game?

I’m sailing down the wrong highway I know

Just ahead of the pursuing regrets and woes

Drinking whenever the pain grows

As the battlefield of life flows,

Imagining the life I had before

There were breezes and sea gulls by the shore

I wonder who could have asked for more

Wondering what I wanted all that pain and suffering for,

You treated me like a door mat on the floor

Is this what God teaches lessons for?

Somehow I thought love meant so much more

You just had to bring your miserable world through my door,

Trying to be Mister Good Guy I tried to sympathize

Tried to heal you and normalize

You never cared much to philosophize

But you sure knew how to victimize,

Now I’m a flickering candle in the wind

Been burned real good for all I have sinned

For all those atrocities for which I’m akin

All for the pursuit of your smooth silken skin.