I Knew the Day Would Come

REFLECTING BACK TO THE HARSH WORDS YOU SPOKE THE EGO THAT WAS EVIL THAT ALWAYS LURKED TO BELITTLE WAS PART OF YOUR GAME AND THEN IT WAS ME WHO WOULD TAKE THE BLAME THE BROKEN HEART THAT IS LEFT TO MEND ALL ALONE LEFT TO CRY SEEMED TO BE A TREND TAKING ALL THAT I HAD TO GIVE AND MORE CHOKING ME AND LEAVING ME ON THE FLOOR FINDING MYSELF ON A ONE WAY STREET THE ONE THAT LOVED YOU – YOU HAD TO DEFEAT STAYING OUT ALL NIGHT HANGING IN BARS WHEN WOULD YOU PUSH ME TOO FAR WAS IT THE GIRLS CALLING THE HOUSE AT NIGHT WAS IT EVERY CONVERSATION THAT TURNED INTO A FIGHT DID YOU STOP TO THINK THAT ONE DAY I’D BE GONE I WAS OBVIOUSLY QUIET, SAD AND WITHDRAWN HOLDING ONTO HAPPY MEMORIES THAT WERE FADING FAST HOW LONG COULD THIS DOWNWARD SPIRAL LAST WHY DID YOU THINK I OWED YOU SOMETHING YOU TORE IT APART AND NOW WE HAVE NOTHING WATCHING MY LIFE SPIN OUT OF CONTROL LEAVING ME ALL ALONE IN A BLACK EMPTY HOLE TAKING ALL OF MY LOVE AND THE LIFE THAT WE BUILT NOT EVER FEELING AN OUNCE OF GUILT THE ROLLER COASTER RIDE FINALLY TOOK ITS LAST TURN AS YOU LAUGHED AND PLAYED WITHOUT A BIT OF CONCERN NOW THE HOUSE IS EMPTY NOT A PICTURE ON THE WALL DID THE ALMIGHTY FINALLY TAKE A BIG FALL DO YOU CLIMB INTO AN EMPTY BED AT NIGHT DO YOU MISS ME KISSING YOU AND HOLDING YOU TIGHT ARE YOU STARING AT THE CLOCK UNTIL MORNING NOW YOU REMEMBER ALL THE COUNTLESS WARNINGS WHY COULDN’T YOU STOP AND LISTEN TO MY CRIES BEFORE YOU LET THIS RELATIONSHIP DIE I’M MOVING ON, SEEING WHAT WE’VE BECOME NOW YOU CALL . . . I KNEW THE DAY WOULD COME Written December 4th, 2001 © on Dec 04 2001 09:45 AM PST   18 • 0 • 1