shadowed nights all tangled up in heated sheets

where my "I'll love you forever" escapes in the night

if staring at four pale walls would help me forget you

I'd happily beg them to show me the way right

in the day, how I play, at loving another

but at night, i dream only of you

desolation my heart's only feeling

my hands feeling a much deeper truth

they stray on their own across this body

as i pleasure myself on memories of you--

of your face and the sound of your voice

the nightdreams and kisses on view

and those words now lost to these eyes

gone to where all broken loves flew

it's not just one night of this torture

but it's every last one without you

and my bed reminds me of your absence

and the tears on my own pillow, too

imprisoned within a forced silence

too afraid to speak even a short hello

i'll forever lie in this bed thinking

of the man who is still owning my soul

No other-- though I try, to appease you

to play at this game we call life

and despair in the sadness awaiting

the day i'm another man's wife