Have you ever had
A life without love?
I have
I'll tell you what
There's none of
Attention
Care
Education
Encouragement
Sleep
Sweet dreams
Future
There's plenty of
Fake friends &
Living in depression
While you're always giving
Always there for everyone else
It's not returned
That is what it's like
to live without love
To give without love
To want to end it all

It goes off
Before you know it
Before you can think twice
One slip bliss
No more worry about this
No more worry about you
No more thinking it through
I'm tired of these triggers
Stabbing like a knife
Tired of hurting  
Tired of life

Slowly it trickles
Softly drives me insane
The constant pressure
The soft relentlessness
The tightness that grabs
The pounding
The sudden awakening
The hurtfulness
The unending abuse

This is a story
A not so special love story
About a small town girl and a city boy

He was the good time
Life of the party
Mr. smooth talker suave'
She was the niave
backed in a corner
needing love type of thing

He talked to her
til the sun came up
They fell in love;
That's what they say
Well at least that's
how the story goes and
That's what she thought anyway

The nights were long that summer
She felt as strong as she could be
All they needed was one another
They thought it was forever
They thought it was forever

The years fly by
and the babies came
Struggles and lies
Slid their way in
Til late one night
It all began
Their house of cards
just caved in

Folks that's what happens
When you never talk
Such a sad ending
to what she thought
was real love

The nights were long that summer
She felt as strong as she could be
All they needed was one another
They thought it was forever
They thought it was forever

Like ice to the touch
Clouds of breath linger in frigid air
Talking about nothing
Shivers of goosebumps on arms
Hands in pockets hoping for warmth
Finding frozen fingertips hidden
Between the cotton
This is too thin, we need something more
My hands are too alone
My mind too isolated
Carefully choosing thoughts
Words unsure of the ears that listen
It is too cold here to feel safe