You see it all started out   With the very best of my sincere intentions   So I thought anyway   But that day that we got lost   I could tell she had   Penetrated my defences   But I carried on anyway   And then the moment that we came I could tell we would   Never be the same again   More so anyway   Now feel the burden of my shame   As I try to make some sense out of this brittle life   Oh anyway      I thought I was strong enough to be everything   You could ever want or need or need of me   Anyway      So then they questioned all my friends   And tooth by tooth they extracted their confessions   So called anyway   Then they read all the books I'd read   And tried to link the authors to my known profession   They failed anyway   But then they put her on the rack   And they broke her perfect back   Into tiny pieces      She never talked anyway   Then they squeezed me till I cracked   And one by one I gave away all her secrets   Forgive me anyway      I thought I was strong enough to be everything   You could ever want or need or need of me   Anyway      And the words that I hear are the lies that you say   I'm not listening to you any more anyway