SERVES ME RIGHT

How did I not see this coming?

Could I really have gone so blind?

Serves me right to have to pay this price

For letting my heart rule over my mind

Every time you hit me was always the last

Your blows were quick, your apologies as fast

Angry glaring eyes soon ruefully downcast

I’d believe you every time, put it all in the past

Serves me right to have to pay this price

For letting my heart rule over my mind

That black leather belt we bought together

Would sting my skin as you bruised it tender

The blows would keep coming in harder and harder

Till my body gave up, my spirit surrendered

I‘d wake up the next day; and oh the pain

But you’d kiss it away and teary eyed explain,

“It’s not me when I’m angry, I just go insane”

I’d believe it when you’d say, “It’ll never happen again”

Serves me right to have to pay this price

For letting my heart rule over my mind

Laughing a moment ago, we now argue

A slap comes soon, and then a punch too

But it’s different tonight; the gleam in your eyes new

Suddenly you grab my neck; I see what you plan to do

I give you no fight or struggle, there isn’t a point to

You strangle me slowly at leisure, smiling as you do

As the lights begin to dim, you whisper, “I’ll miss you”

I close my eyes and, for the very last time, believe you

Serves me right to have to pay this price

For letting my heart rule over my mind