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Lyrics - Black & White

Why did you have to go, leave me alone
Spite was your only thought, cut me to the bone
You cried and you passed the blame, you lied everyday
How could you do this dear, leave me this way
  New life, new life, blame it on me
Cruel knife, cold knife, turn it on me
Your life was my life, taken from me
New life, new life, blame it on me
Why did you cut me down, tread in my blood
Crawl from beneath your stone, stab with your love
I cry, yes I cry at night, not that you'd know
You crushed my heart in your velvet claw, destroyed as you go
Why, why do you cut me down, call me these names
Once we were meant to be, now there's only pain
  New life, new life, blame it on me
Cruel knife, cold knife, turn it on me
Your life was my life, taken from me
New life, new life, blame it on me
Now that you've sucked me dry, run me to ground
Still you get to fuck my life, though you're not around
I laugh at your fake innocence, I spit on all you've done
I love you still, but then I hate you more, for all that you've become
The memories they taste like mud and shit, your scent it's just the same
But it hurts so bad every time I hear someone, somewhere use your name

You're here, you're there
You're not about, you're everywhere
I'm black, you're white
No grey between, wrong or right

Do you know why?
Because you lied
You lied, you lied, you lied........

© 1993, Music: ARK, Lyrics: Ant Short

There are two sides to a relationship break-up. But pride rarely allows the truth to be revealed. The character here is blamed for the relationship failing, even though the lies the partner is saying are made up to humilate and riducle.