I can be there to see you succeed.
I can soothe you when you fail.
I lose something every time you're away.
But you'll never understand the way I feel.

Break me again over your knee.
See that I breathe and that I bleed.
See that I'm human, like you.
You couldn't see me the way I see you.

I can't be perfect like I think you are.
I can't be who you want me to be.
Bitter, wistful smiles; tear stained and trying
My skin burns where you touched last.

Now I lie here bleeding away.
Did you ever think it would end like this?
My life slipping and vision failing,
Yet I'm still smiling, and you're still gone.