Bones is not mine.

Numb, exhausted, broken and cold,

Just sitting here waiting, waiting for relief to take hold.

I can't believe you're gone, it seems like only yesterday…

But no, I mustn't dwell on that, for madness lies that way.

Oh, how many times I had to tell you of how I really feel,

My wildest fantasies and desires; you made them all so real.

I love you, oh, so ardently and you can only guess

How much you filled my life and world with joy and happiness.

I never took the chance to kiss your soft, full lips,

Nor feel you push against me, the movement of your hips…

But perhaps it's better this way, our love forever pure,

The way you used to look at me, you shared my thoughts I'm sure.

If my tears could cry a river that would lead me straight to you,

I wouldn't stop, my Bones, until I'd found my love so true.

The moonlight casts dark shadows all around the place,

Why is there light, why is there life, without your smiling face?

It doesn't take a special moment for me to think of you,

Each time I cry, each time I breathe, my thoughts are all with you.

You'd speak of bones and bodies, of things I will never understand,

I'd tease and ridicule you, but you always gained the upper hand.

The air used to crackle between us: we should have pursued it, whatever the cost,

And whenever you used to look at me…from that first moment I was lost.

I want to scream across the heavens, "What does it matter now, she's gone?"

My heart is torn with sadness, my lifetime seems too long.

I know in the depths of my soul that we will not always be apart,

That I should store and bless the memories I guard within my heart.

But you were my life, my love, my saviour and my friend,

Without you here beside me, I fear my torment can never end.

If only I could return to the days we had together,

But our union has been severed, it feels as though forever.

The squints know that I am suffering, the extent of which they cannot trace,

For I've hidden my crushed and broken heart beneath my neutral face.

I should have told you so many times, how I've loved you every day,

But I'll never be given the chance, for you've gone so far away.

I feel like I am drowning in my pain, my hurt, my all-consuming sorrow,

Why did you have to leave me and go to a place where I cannot follow?

But now, at last and forever my darling, you're away from pain, you're free,

I'll never now be able to tell you, Temperance: you are the best of me.