This time let's not bring up my disasters

Or put me on some couch like sigmund freud.

Your textbooks filled with hypothetical answers.

So summarizeshe called it null and void.



What do you want me to tell you? 

What do you want me to say? 

I've been cut by the rose again.

All the petals have fallen to pieces.



Now I'm left with the thorn and the stem.

I'm out looking for my friendslooking for my friends.



She left the note in the sleeve of my coatthat was not nice --

I called her on the phonethe voice that spokeit was coldit was hard as ice.



I tried to speak

The connection was weak

'cause I was talking to a machine.

She said"if this is youwe're totally through"

And that's the last of her I've seen.



What do you want me to tell you? 

I got the message loud and clear --

Now I can't talk'cause talk is cheap.

I'm in a no-win situation.

There are no words that I could speak that would mend this broken rose.

So here I amon the couch of a friend who submits his observations

He says love just comes and goes...