Handcuffed to the past

You've stained my heart
And taken a part of me
But i still hold dear
everything that's left here
the memories, the letters
you've changed my love,
oh how you've changed

i knew you once,
or at least i'd like to think so
But i won't be forgetting you
no matter how badly you want me to
Your smile, your laugh
you changed me my darling
oh how you changed me

Will i ever get past this?
or will i dwell in the past
not wanting to move on
praying to god to prevent
time from dragging on
the closer i am to the past
the more i think this will last
but you're fading away love
you're fading

I think you're world
is ahead of mine
because it seems to me
that you've left me behind
left me to be swallowed
into the depths of time
I think i've been forgotten
How easily i was forgotten

Oh how i miss you
and still lay awake in bed
while memories run through my head
While i'm sick with misery
I'd tell you but my voice
is too thin and shaky
I'm crying in my sleep,
My black heart is broken
It's shattered into pieces

But there has to be something
to end this tragedy
i tried running from misery
but it came looking for me
holding boxes of memories
that pains my soul to think of
Oh honey, i'm drowning in this
I swear i'll die from this

I'm a haunted soul
that's been abandoned
You used to hold my hand in the rain
But now the only thing
that holds my hand
is my dear old friend pain
Oh my love you've left me
addicted to pain and misery.