Heart Devoid of Detail Lyrics

You turn from your love to face the world and all its many thrills

You're sure that its here that you'll find what you need, someone to pay the bills

It's not that its dead or the answers he said, it's a cup that never fills

And he treated you right when he said he would write but you never pick up the mail

You can't slip left the fog lift, you've left behind a trail

You've written the pain and there it remains, a heart devoid of detail

The morning withers, the sun it shivers, to think of where you've slept

Your mind is reeling to seize the feeling, your heart has all but left

And there beside you, lying quiet, the promise that you kept

And pity comes, it hoos and hums, what you want is some respect

You've taken stock, you've read the clock, you're less than last you checked

And now's the time, your body whines, do something I'll regret

You've had the best now take the rest and show them what you learned

That love and trust and gain and lust can all be overturned

And most of all, that he who falls is he who shall be burned

And I'm sure you'll see him again and then you'll see how far you've come

He'll see you and he'll see right through the things that you've undone

And as you hope, he burns the rope, your only song is sung