There's a hot hard hurt

Burnin' under her skin

And it pricks her like thorns

And it's needles and pins

And it twists in her body

And I know what it is



And I'm paying in pain

But it's the cost of the high

Till the weight of the secret

And the weight of the lie

Makes my heart want to bust

Feel the ache as time goes by

Getting better and worse

Getting better and worse

And there's a screw that I tighten

As I dream of the kiss

And it twists and it cuts me

And y'know what it is?

It's a fragment of love

From a splintering heart

And it tears her apart

But not as much as this



So you save up your tears

For the moments alone

Till the splinters you gather

Leave you glass-hard and numb

And the same sun is shining

On the old and the young

On the saints and the sinners

On the weak and the strong



And there's a burning and freezing

And a cross for a kiss

So she learns to stop dreaming

And you know how it is

With these fragments of love

And this splintering heart

With the fragments

And this splintering heart



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