The Blood & The Bones

I never loved you
But I loved that a man like you thought you loved me

A man they all wanted and I somehow had wanting me
At the time, lost in my own forest of longing and loneliness, this was a good enough reason to say it in return
And because you seemed to so desperately need to hear it

Since it was often given to you more freely and I had given almost nothing
In a moment of quiet where the silence was thick and I didn’t say what I should again, I let it slip
Once it dropped from my lips, I couldn’t pull it back again

So, I covered it with more half truths that would soothe
I think you believed them

I admit, some of them were genuine

But, in truth, I never loved you
And for that
I am sorry

the blood

& the bones