Shrapnel

Lies You learned long ago how to cast them Now you don't even need to try You bury them all behind you They always come back to life When the chimps escape their enclosure They'll open the gates for the lions And that lion was bound to come and bite you He's found a prettier wife Oh, if you had seen my side You wouldn't look upon me so Staying up for hours, waiting for his keys in the door A shit show and a glass of wine Is not enough to plug the hole That he left on your heart when he left you to tend it alone Now, though the years have softened the shrapnel That made its home in my bones You still moan in the rooms of my nightmares Some lump of flesh in your own How could you think that a child Who could barely reach the top drawer Could see what it was you were hiding And then outgrow it? But if I had seen your side I wouldn't look upon you so Staying up for hours, waiting for his keys in the door A shit show and a glass of wine Is not enough to plug the hole That he left on your heart when he left you to tend it alone