Dark Heart

You can’t come back to this dark heart.
Your hair is blond, your skin is tan.
You’ve been standing in the sunshine of another man.
You can’t come back to this dark heart.

You can’t come back to this dark heart.
Your bags are packed, your future’s bright.
And he has shown you that love can be light.
You can’t come back to this dark heart.
You can’t come back to this dark heart.

Oh, but in a while I’ll be leaving too.
I’m going to burn down this building and watch the memories melt.
I’m going to set fire to every feeling I have felt.
I won’t grow old with this dark heart.
I won’t grow old with this dark heart.

I’m going to find myself a sea shore
and there I will be reborn
where the morning is so brilliant that it blinds
and the people there all have empty minds
and nobody can remember darker times.
And maybe I’ll see you there too
and we’ll find each other new.
Well maybe, maybe that will be true.

If you keep standing in the hallway I’m going to start crying.
For a minute there I wanted to ask you to stay,
to shine on you some hopeful ray of light –
but no light shines from this dark heart.
No, no light shines from this dark heart.
No light shines from this dark heart.

Tam Lin