When I see you my heart doth skip a beat
across a thousand miles of Love's great sea.
I see dark passion when our eyes do meet
As if your love were like lightning to me,
'Round the black, charred flesh of my broken heart
The frost sticks to me from your cold shoulder.
I would take to my throat and poisen dart
To spend my life with you and grow older.
But you always drive into me a stake
causing sorrow, grief, and terrible pain.
You! You seek only for my heart to break
into a thousand pieces you'll retain.
Now I lie wounded by your weapon, strife,
Unconscious in the ambulance of life.