You Used to Make Me Swear Never to Leave You

Music: Fugue in E minor. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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You used to make me swear never to leave you; Now you're gone and will not tell me why. I cannot guess what I have done to grieve you, But if I have so much, then let it die. What makes a love like ours blow away Like a piece of paper in a gusty wind? What makes it so impossible to stay? What words or gestures might I now rescind? Just as your love was once a mystery, So now your bitterness I cannot grasp: As if I touched your temples tenderly And felt the twisted sinews of an asp. Alone I face the cold, cold things you do; I need your love to help me deal with you.