My Jail

This is my lonely lonely heart It aches inside me here It’s looking for some long lost dream To make life sweet and dear It doesn’t trust, it has been there Trice now as we count And every time it comes right out With scars on it again It wants a love to just be true That it might live once more Its seeks for friends and when it finds It runs and shuts the door It harbours in there all its fears Its pain and memories It finds it so hard to move on How will it ever heal I wish that my heart would just say To hell with all the past And leave it sitting in the dark And let it rot away It’s time to stop it worrying If its games you play To take a chance and maybe see If it could live a day There’s so much stuff here going on It can’t get past first base It just stays singing lonely songs And sits beyond closed gates