Lyrics

He numbs the pain with gin sodden evenings, cigarette smoking and with petty thieving.
He stands in the rain while the sun is out shining, there's no silver lining, inside he is dying
he's given up trying to pick up the pieces those little black shards of his old broken heart.

She twists and she turns in the bed where she's sleeping, her eyes are still weeping, her life still in tatters
She never learned why this world is so ugly, why she'd never prosper, why she never mattered,
She's given up trying to pick up the pieces those little black shards of her old broken heart.

So he sang and she cried and they danced hand in hand, and damned all those cowards that litter their land.
She fell about laughing, he fell to his knee, said "I'll love you forever if you'll only love me".

When he was a lad he was left by the wayside, left by that grave side, left there to die.
When she was a young girl, she was told it was love then she had enough of those sickening lies.
They'd given up trying to pick up the pieces, those little black shards of their old, broken hearts.

So he sang and she cried and they danced hand in hand, and damned all those cowards that litter their land.
She fell about laughing, he fell to his knee, said "I'll love you forever if you'll only love me".

Those little black shards, suffocating and dark, but now she... She can breathe again
Those little black shards, the facade and the mask, and now he... doesn't need to pretend

In love they had fallen and fallen so hard, two lovers, kindred, so pretty, so scarred
And as they were laid there so happy and calm.
She whispered "I love you" then died in his arms.

So he sat there and cried and he took both her hands, and damned all those cowards that litter their land, the laughter was over he fell to his knees. Said I'll love your forever if you please, please love me.

Tale of Two Lovers

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