I've broken all your bones and promises I gave
I've sat upon some thrones like one who owned a slave
And I never had the guts to reach for you at all
And I constantly ignored the writing on the wall
I've listened to your dreams with one ear on the shelf
Fed you reams and reams of stuff about myself
I ploughed on like the blind regardless of a fall
Because I couldn't see the writing on the wall
And when the hammer fell it was like a mortal blow
I turned around to see someone I didn't know
I thought I knew you well, I thought I knew it all
But I never thought I'd see the writing on the wall
We hurt the ones we love to see how they might bend
We push our luck so far that we break them in the end
And the day that we wake up they're gone beyond recall
Because we couldn't see the writing on the wall