Castaway

Your love was the same as poison
You had me under your microscope
You didn't love without conditions
You kept the foot of your perfect life upon my throat
Death and doom were my choices
We shattered every time silence broke
You thought yourself a religion
I wrapped my hands around your dogma and choked, choked, choked

 A year had passed since we wrote our notes
But we should've known it right from the start
Hope could never keep us together
Love can mend life, but you used it to break my heart

So take the message from the bottle
And cast it back to the sea
A hundred million castaways could not
Possibly appeal to me
Your love for me may have existed
But jealousy burned it into ash
The charred remains are so twisted
I could care less to send the S.O.S.

A year had passed since we wrote our notes
But we should've known it right from the start
Hope could never keep us together
Love can mend life, but you used it to break my heart

When I woke up this morning
I couldn't believe what I saw
A hundred million more bottles
And you're damn right I destroyed them all
In peaceful silence I'm smiling
Yes John Donne was wrong
So stay the hell off my island
And to yourself sing this song, yes sing along

A year had passed since we wrote our notes
But we should've known it right from the start
Hope could never keep us together
Love can mend life, but you used it to break my heart

Snuffing out the S.O.S.

- featured lyrics from the song "Message In A Bottle," written by Gordon Sumner for the album Reggatta dé Blanc by The Police, copyright 1979; featured lyrics from the song "Basura," written by Grant Morgan, copyright 2011