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MY EMPTINESS

(T. Beechey)



I've hit the bottom and reached the top

The bottom of the barrel and the cream of the crop

Have both been mine,but it all came to stop

When I lost how to fall in love



I've sank to the depths and soared to the heights

Got lost in the shadows and bathed in the lights

There's only one thing I never got right

And that was how to fall in love



I've always given much more than I took

Gave up a kingdom for the loss of a rook

My life's always been an open book

But what good's it do with no one to look?



I've grabbed the brass ring and gotten the shaft

Cried till it hurt and felt joy as I laughed

But nobody ever taught me the craft

Of how to fall in love



I've had the best and seen the worst

I've been dead last and come in first

But the one thing I never rehearsed

Is how to fall in love



I can't make excuses or hide behind lies

There's no time for truthless alibis

But,try as I might to shed my disguise

I'm forced to gaze in my own eyes



And all I see is a helpless soul

Wandering aimlessly,losing control

And never able to fulfill his role

Of one who can fall in love



Now I confuse the good with the bad

And mistake the happy for the sad

As I dream of what I could have had

Had I learned how to fall in love