The Music is Singing Alone



This is no way to live.
My heart is bleeding like a sieve.
It hurts to breathe, but breathe I must.
Maybe one day I will adjust.

Until that day, pretend it's night.
Only I won't be sleeping tight.
It hurts to cry, but cry I will.
Until this empty heart is filled.
My heart will fill, only to spill.

Sunny days, sweeping my tears away.
Rainy days, bringing them back.
It hurts to love, but I love you.
Although I don't want to, that's a fact.

But love I do, I cannot stop
My heart from bleeding around the clock.
It hurts to live, but I live on.
Until this melancholy song is gone.

We're nearing the end, and so am I.
By the piano, bleeding I lye.
It hurts to lye, but I lye still.
Destroying me from the inside it kills.

Death is breathing down my neck.
Yes I bleed on, a nervous wreck.
It hurts to feel, but still I feel.
This hellish feeling is all too real.

Blood and tears and suffering too.
Hello death, you are in view.
It hurts to die, but my life is done.
I end it all with a loaded gun.

I'm sorry mom, I'm sorry dad..
Remember all the fun we had?
It hurts to leave, but I mist go.
You meant so much to me you know.

Tell the family I send my love.
I begin to float up above.
It feels good, being heaven-bound.
My postmortem body makes no sound.

Gently, serenely, now I lay.
On this cold December day.
It hurt so much, to be in that pain.
But I know I won't have to feel it again.

What did I say? The song would end.
Along with it would go my life.
No more suffering, no more crying;
No more misery, no more strife.

Good-bye life, good-bye world.
Good-bye blonde haired Russian girls.
Good-bye darkness, good-bye light.
Good-bye day and good-bye night.
Good-bye mother, good-bye father.
Good-bye to all my petty bothers.
Good-bye dogs and good-bye cats,
Good-bye men with funny hats.
Good-bye music, good-bye song.
Thank you so much for singing along.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAA BBCXC DXEX XXXX FFCX GGHH EEII JJKK LLMM DDXX XNXN XXBBXXOOPP
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,804
Words 358
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 10

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