Even with our clothes on

And a thousand miles of wire

You watch me like a painting

And you touch me like a fire

How could you imagine I would stay

This is the way



And even in the darkness

Through the neon on the street

You take me in the shadows

And you make me incomplete

How could I have known what you would say

This is the way



This is the way that you hurt me

Through the richer and the poorer

In sickness and in health

From dust to dust

This is the way that you hurt me

In a place you'll never know

This is the way that you hurt me

Hurt me so



Even with my eyes closed

And the shattered stare of shock

You haunt me like a photograph

And taunt me like a clock

How could I surrender every day

This is the way....



....that you hurt me

Through the richer and the poorer

In sickness and in health

From dust to dust

This is the way that you hurt me

In a place you'll never know

This is the way that you hurt me

Hurt me so



No family to betray me

No phone that I won't answer

No stairwell too well lit for me to breathe

No sentimental sadness underneath

No sacrificial sorrow I can see



This is the way that you hurt me

Through the memory and the shame

In silence and in fear

From dusk to dawn

This is the way that you hurt me

With a face you never show

This is the way that you hurt me

Hurt me so