So long ago and so far away
Searching for words that I wanted to say
Nowhere near perfect but God knows I tried
The day you walked out it’s like part of me died
Seems like a lifetime I’ve been on this road
Forever I’ve travelled with nowhere to go
Like a tarnished gold ring in the old lost and found
Just wasting my time (in) this broken heart town
Just wasting my time (in) this broken heart town

I think of you often though I wish I could stop
The things I remember I wish I’d forgot
Tattered love letters the words fade away
Black and white writing it all turns to gray
Like a dead marble statue my heart’s turned to stone
I just want to die sometimes I’m so alone
Like a prisoner in chains forever I’m bound
To waste away here (in) this broken heart town
To waste away here (in) this broken heart town

I hope that you’re happy I hope that you’re well
Living without you’s like living in hell
The years I spent crying they’re forever gone
I wish I’d been able to move on alone
The love that we had you threw it away
I can’t think of anything else I can say
You can hear the wind blowing that high lonesome sound
For the time that I wasted (in) this broken heart town
Just wasting away (in) this broken heart town

© 2012, James W. Standley


Broken Heart Town

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