That's the Way Love Dies - Buck 65, Kathrine Bergstrom

It starts when you’re a kid hiding in your room

Trying to forget.

Decide and then assume

That

Everyone’s a threat.

Names go in a book

Fire in the eyes.

Flames show in a look

Burns a hole right through and out the other side

Days were filled with shame while my mother cried

I fell into a trap.

Been in it ever since

I’ve seen a lot of things.

Still I’m unconvinced

But I know the Devil’s real

He’s got a pretty voice and plays the pedal steel

He visits me at night when I’m sleeping like a log

I find it hard to breathe.

Beaten like a dog

Death comes from above.

Nothing underneath

Another one released.

The number of the beast

Staring at the sun.

The need to clear the air

Everything at once.

A little here and there

Love drained my heart dry.

That’s the way love dies

Tears fall from your eyes.

That’s the way love dies

That’s the way love dies

Yeah, that’s the way it goes.

The pounding of the drums

Waiting for a train — a train that never comes

Silence of the moon.

Violence of the stars

Pedal to the floor.

The science of the heart

Picking of the flowers.

Handling of snakes

Breaking of the rules.

Gambling.

Mistakes

The ugly head is reared.

I wonder who to call

Nowhere else to turn, fist goes through a wall

… Acting just like kids

Cutest little girl, knife between the ribs

Wander in the dark.

Pacing in a cage

Removal of her beauty, replacing it with rage

So much on her mind, probably more than most

Run away from home, turn into a ghost

Promise that was made that day was such a joke

The whole thing disappeared in a puff of smoke

Little here and there.

Almost over night

When you look away.

Right before your eyes

Lying in your bed.

When you least expect