Don't Tell Me

Don't tell me shattered truths
And hopes and dreams long gone
Welcome to the end of what
We praised with every dawn

Don't tell me endless lies
That fall from your cold lips
That you pretend to be real
That are taken from the scripts

Don't tell me that you "care"
When surely you do not
For everything I loved
You stole and left to rot

Don't tell me you'd "choose me"
For we both know its not the case
And even though I'm here
I've lost my elegant grace

You stole from me myself
And left me here alone
All I asked for in return
Was that you help me to atone

Atone for sins committed
Atone for sins long past
Atone for what won't leave
And what surely won't be last

Where has it all gone?
What have you finally done?
Why can't you see the pain I'm in?
What have you begun?

But beginnings have an end
Or so I have been told
And if an ending there should be
Remember what you sold

You sold the boy you loved
You sold his love for you
You sold his strength of heart
You sold him through and through

And if this is the end
A question I will ask
To what avail did this deed
Help to change the mask?

So now tell me something true
My dearest closest love
Tell me why you did it
Ask the skies above

Tell me what you wish
And tell me why you're here
Tell me where you've been
And tell me what's still dear

And if at last you find truth
One last thing I'll know
Tell why you left me
Buried beneath the snow