Sad Songs Say F**k All

I could tell you my heart's broken

And I don't think it'll ever mend

You'd just hear those cliches spoken

Off the cuff, time and time again

It's too late in the game

And the novelty's palled

Words are all that remain

And sad songs say fuck all

I could say I'm lost without you

As though I knew were I was before

You gave me no cause to doubt you

My faith was misplaced on the killing floor

I could make myself plane

Now the engines have stalled

My mood waxes and wanes

But sad songs say fuck all

At least if I'm singing

I'm not crying

That's something

We should all be grateful for

Now the beast has been tamed

And the tales have grown tall

They tell me it's time to refrain

But sad songs say fuck all

Sad songs say fuck all

You can't expect me to translate the best of me

Into the metre of doleful soliloquy

The sum of what we were, refuses to transfer

To internal rhymes or to dubious metaphor

Morose and sedentary, bronzing my memories

Grasping at my last relapse into melody

I should have said before, everything heretofore

Waited to open my mouth, 'til you shut the door

Major to minor, from public to personal

Try as you might, nothing softens the fall

Because sad songs say fuck all