Maybe I should just get married and fuck it all 
Like you told me through the brick wall 
You talked to me from behind 
Like I was out of my mind 
And you had to use gloves to trace
The truth I couldn’t bear to face
And I’d drawn a pretty picture in years 
But I’m looking at you through the tears 
Not believing what you’re saying 
And in spite of all my praying 
You still turn the wheel 
Tell me that I shouldn’t feel 
What is real 
And if love was ever true 
Then forever is me and you 
And we age and pages hold the rage 
Of something you couldn’t stage 
As you hold up a light in a grass so green 
And tell me you’ve found another queen 
One who won’t rot and burn and fester 
The court is adjourned and the jester 
Has left the room 
And all that doom 
I took with me to the lodge 
And the bullet that I couldn’t dodge 
When you fired the gun 
Like I was the only one
Who’s heart you could pierce 
I used to be brave, I was fierce
Now I just haunt the halls 
Of incendiary free for alls 
And say I’m for the female right to be free 
But I know that if it was up to me 
I’d be with you 
But you don’t want to 
So I let it be 
Let you make shards of me 
As you cut the glass 
And rip into what you couldn’t make last 
And you may have her home, her bed, her child 
But you can’t take my wild 
And turn it into domesticity 
If that’s the role you wish with felicity 
That I may have
I’d take the chains and the feeling bad
And turn it into something new 
A world of firsts without you 
And you cannot own 
What I have grown 
And red is the colour of my true love’s heart 
But he’s not the one so we are apart 
And I keep on saying that I’m coming back 
But we both know it’s something that I lack 
In conviction 
And the eviction 
From a tenant farm 
Is not something that could have kept me from harm 
As I’m keening over a frame 
A body that held a soul I cannot name 
Now that he’s gone 
And it’s been so long 
But I don’t forget 
And the bone might set 
But there’s always some kind of tissue around the break 
Around the one I will not forsake 
Not for love nor money 
Not even for you, honey