I heard about your happiness

And all the plans that you're involved in

Since you're gone you'd be impressed

To know I, too, have been evolving

But I don't think you comprehend

I've been suffering

Yeah, I've been suffering

Guess I'll be suffering up around the bend

This love is a cancer in me

I can feel it advancing in me

This fire it is my light in the world

Well, I found me a new friend

I've been suffering

Yeah, I've been suffering

Guess I'll be suffering up around the bend

I hung around in a leather bar

They threw me on the cement

Slept all night in my plastic car

Got in an accident

I brushed by you in the supermart

And I had me a touch of what's real

It was real when you crushed me with your steel

Black clouds roll through my mind

Who says anyway these halls are sovereign?

I am a hater of the human kind

So keep away, this heart's not softening

No, I don't think that it's the end of this suffering

Yeah, I've been suffering

I've been suffering

I've been suffering

And I'll be suffering up around the bend