Once I Lived (Once I Loved)

This old house don't hold the heat no more
Just the chill down in the floor
And the ghost of your perfume in this worn-out leather coat
I hear the screen door slam, but it's just the wind's dry throat
A empty chair, a silent phone
A king dethroned, on a lonely throne
The fields outside have all gone brown
The well's run dry, the roof fell down
And I'm just weathering away, piece by piece
Waiting on a peace that don't come, waiting for release
Once I lived, once I loved
Now I'm just a scar where a heart was
I drove the truck out to the bluff today
Where we swore we'd never stray
Threw the map we drew together out into the canyon air
Watched the paper twist and fall, like a final, broken prayer
You took the dog, you took the light
And you left me with this endless night
The fields outside have all gone brown
The well's run dry, the roof fell down
And I'm just weathering away, piece by piece
Waiting on a peace that don't come, waiting for release
Once I lived, once I loved
Now I'm just a scar where a heart was
They say time heals all, but they're all wrong
Time just teaches you to carry on the hurt
It sands the edges off the pain, 'til it's a smooth, familiar ache
A part of you for heaven's sake
A monument to your mistake
The fields outside have gone to dust
The chains are rust, the blade is rust
And I'm just weathering away, what's left of me
A hollowed-out and fallen tree
Once I lived.. once I loved
God, I lived, I loved
Now I'm just the scar.. where a heart was.