love is sad, love is strange, love is all around

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Recorded this with Chris & Dan one dark and stormy night....

Self Inficted Wound

Well I’ll cry and light a torch song
With these gasoline tears
I’ve been playing with fire so long
Been burning myself for years
Every new tale of star crossed love
Always ends the same way
Make a vow then find out how
Forever’s just another old flame

There's no one but yourself to blame
When you fall in love too soon
And your broken heart is just
A self inflicted wound

Find the words that make it all better
Try and describe your pain
Pour them all into another love letter
Get ‘em all wrong again
Another red stamp on an envelope
That says Return to Sender
But it’s never enough to crush the hope
Of the great pretender

(repeat chorus)

bridge
Paroled arsonists, old gigolos and ex-junkies
Drown their sorrows in the dim lights of the bar
When the nature of your sin appears upon your skin
You find a dark place where you can hide your scars

(break)

Once I played the fool
I wore my heart upon my sleeve
Now I keep it hidden
Safely locked inside my chest

It’s a cruel world filled
With parasites and thieves
Go and ask the man who
Wears a bulletproof vest

(REPEAT CHORUS)

Jeremy Gripp