Remember when you couldn't understand
Why she brought you to the ground?
And as your pillars crumbled into sand
She turned away without a sound

Now you try to gather your emotions
Scattered by the winds
Of her sudden change of heart

Don't surrender to the past
Remove those chains
Set your tired body free
Take the heart away and what remains?
Tears for a love that cannot be

The hunger for the notion of her name
The inspiration for a song
A whisper overcomes the candle's flame
What kept it burning for so long?

Struggle with this pain as your burden
How long can you bear this unwilling memory?

Don't surrender to the past
Remove those chains
Set your tired body free
Take the heart away and what remains?
Tears for a love that cannot be

Now the tattered bonds have been broken
No more are you punished and enslaved by your regrets

Don't surrender to the past
Remove those chains
Set your tired body free
Take the heart away and what remains?
Tears for a love that