Placing the Blame

Tell me why you are still in my heart
Why are you the apple of my eye
Every time I mention your name
I drift back to days gone by

Why do I mention your name
With every chance I get
Is it because you are the love of my life
And simply one I cannot forget

Why do I look at him
While my eyes express such sadness
Yet when I find a reason to mention your name
My life feels full of madness

My eyes begin to sparkle
Whenever I speak your name
But when I say why I left
I generously give you all the blame

Nearly twelve years later
I realize you were the one for me
I spend a moment each and every day
Daydreaming of the way we used to be

But when people ask me where you are and wonder about our love
I somehow find the words to say that you have given up

I place the blame on you again
For not taking a chance with me
But really who could blame you
After I gave you such misery

I blame you for our past differences
I accuse you of ignoring me today
If I could come up with a good excuse
I would say that it was you who walked away

But now that the game is over
As we tally up the score
It was me who walked away
But it was you who slammed the door

It was you who said it was over
Even after I finally came around
For once in the past eleven years
I could not compete with the new love you have found

The two of you have not been together
As long as we have been apart
But I still sense the fire
That I started in your heart

Do not let love warm you
If you still feel burning embers from me
Do not let false love
Make your forget about how we were meant to be

I guess I am a little too late
That is the story of my life
Do you still think of me
When you cuddle up with her at night

If I still cross your mind
Let us end this game
Call a truce, submit to happiness
And never again we pass the blame

Reunite, we love again
Forget all about the disaster
Tell our grandchildren
About how you and I found
A storybook "happily ever after".