Fake

Goodbye...
You didn't warn me
of the changes that you felt,
you just left.

Don't cry...
I guess it's easy for you to say just that.
You're not going through the pain
this broken heart is feeling.
You never had to
so you just can't believe it.

Be good to yourself,
that's what you always said.
I should have known
I had to do it myself.

It wasn't you
who would be good to me
oh no...
Cause what you're good at
is to render your victims
helpless.

I can't imagine
what's going through your head.
Or through your heart -
if you have one.
It's only a shell.

There's nothing in it
because you can only give
what you have...
And you have nothing.

You're a killing machine,
are you keeping count?
How do you live with yourself?
How could I have been so blind?

I believed in you,
and that was my mistake.
Because everything about you
is fake.

How do you live with yourself?
I'd really like to know.
I never would have thought
that you could be so cold.

You're so gentle
when you want things your way.
But when you have enough,
you just throw it all away.

You're a killing machine.
Are you keeping count?
How many souls did you destroy?
And how many hearts?

Are you proud
of the trail you left behind?
Do the cries
sometimes echo in your mind?

I can't believe
that I fell so easily
into your trap -
You really did fool me.

I believed in you,
and that was my mistake.
Because everything about you
is fake.

Carmen Colombo
October 1994