the ones who've hurt you

the hymns and the lies

and the things that they did

have created a rift in your heart

and it's too wide to spend

i am only one man

and my efforts have torn us apart

i gave you all that a lover could give

and yet you couldn't let me inside

you said that you care

that the feelings were there

but behind a wall where they hide

and i don't know what more i could have done

to heal your heart

i want to hurt the ones who've hurt you

i want to really make them pay

i want to hurt the ones who've hurt you

for stealing our chance at love away

i gave you a ring and i wrote you a song

and i tattoo'd your heart on my hand

and then i looked in your eyes

and hoped for a sign

that you loved your man

i sang of our love

from the tops of the trees

and i wrote both our names in the sky

yet on the face of a brook

you advanced all the rooks

yet you left your king to die

and i don't know what more i could have done

to heal your heart

i want to hurt the ones who've hurt you

i want to really make them pay

i want to hurt the ones who've hurt you

for stealing our chance at love away

i want to hurt the ones who've hurt you

i want to dearly make them pay

i want to hurt the ones who've hurt you

for stealing our chance at love away

so i suppose this is really goodbye

god i hope that you saw how i tried

and i envy the man

who'll be holding your hand

on that day your demons die

i wish you all that love has to give

it's around you just all of the time

cause love is a thing

like a bird on the wing

once you break that cage inside

and i don't know what more i could have done

to heal your heart

i want to hurt the ones who've hurt you

i want to really make them pay

i want to hurt the ones who've hurt you

for stealing our chance at love away

i want to hurt the ones who've hurt you

i want to kill them with a rage

i want to hurt the ones who've hurt you

for making you this way