I heard about your happiness   And all the plans that you're involved in   Since you're gone you'd be impressed   To know I too have been evolving   But I don't think you comprehend   I've been suffering, yeah, I've been suffering      Guess I'll be suffering up around the bend   This love is a cancer in me   I can feel it advancing in me   This fire it is my light in the world   Well, I found me a new friend   I've been suffering, yeah, I've been suffering      Guess I'll be suffering up around the bend   I hung around in a leather bar   They threw me on the cement   Slept all night in my plastic car   Got in an accident   I brushed by you in the super mart      And I had me a touch of what's real   It was real when you crushed me with your steel   Black clouds roll through my mind   Who says anyway these halls are sovereign?      I am a hater of the human kind   So keep away, this heart's not softening   No, I don't think that it's the end of this suffering   Yeah, I've been suffering   I've been suffering, I've been suffering   And I'll be suffering up around the bend