By HeartShapedLips
Date: 2001 Dec 01
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The Shadow of Two Lovers

Silhouette on the shade
a shadow on the wall
I see you kissing her
you really have some gall

It was only yesterday
that you called me on the phone
and asked me to be yours
and here I stand alone

And now I sit outside
the house wherein you live
watching you hold her
the kisses that you give

I guess I listened wrong
or perhaps you only play
you really didn't mean
the words I heard you say

And now you make a shadow
with your new love that you hold
in the dim lite of your candle
as your bodies both enfold

I sit here with my tears
just rolling down my face
I feel the foolish pain
the shame of my disgrace

I slowly walk away
from your house and all we had
I hang my head in pity
I feel so awful sad

And as I reach the corner
I look up at the sign
and much to my amazement
I carefully read the line

I thought I was on second street
the road where you reside
but what I see is seventh street
it says so on the sign

My heart is beating faster
I'm choking back the tears
I'm breaking out in laughter
replacing all my fears

How could I have ever doubted
the things you said to me!
How could I have ever believed
what a shadow made me see!

The silhouette on the shade
was not that of my sweet
but the shadow of two lovers
who live on seventh street.

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