Broken Love

I can't bear to say your name
Speak your memory without a tear
Every time I trace your face
My heart pulls back in fear

In this scary word of love they praise
I cannot find it's meaning
Somewhere behind the shadowed walls
Someone will find me screaming

Lost all feeling in a frozen world
Touch cold as ice, your stare is bitter
Just as though a red rose dies
Crinkles in your grasp, and withers

Fading words in an angelic tone
Did you expect me to not believe?
Your lies spoken with such truth
I was given no clean air to breathe

So, love.. what is this term they know?
And why have they yet to learn
That the emotions of a broken heart
Flame like fire as they start to burn?

And as that rose lies stone cold
In the palm of your cruel hand
That is when I find myself
In a bearable place to stand

Seems I find comfort in such torture
In a world that's crumbling down
And it's only me and you
In this ghostly, tired town

Every time, every time
I think of those empty words you said
Repeating themselves like crazy
Over and over in my head

Don't touch me, I might melt
Don't hold me, I could break
Tender and fragile feelings of love
Will quickly dissipate

How could you? How could you?
The question that burns me up inside
Why did you hurt me like you did?
Why did you take your words and hide?

One tear falls, two- Please stop
I'm done with the scorching pain
I do not want these tears to start
They won't stop- they won't refrain

What is this burning I feel?
Yes ... it is that of a broken heart
It came to me the day you left
The day you blew my world apart.