The Tale - Jennifer Knapp

Usually blows like this leave a mark

So I can remember

Leave me safe so I won’t embark

On some new adventure

You will miss having coffee warm

Clean sheets on the bed

I won’t miss feeling overtired

From the things you’ve said

And I won’t be the one

To break the spell

I won’t be the one

Who lives to tell the tale

Oh what damage the light has done

Just look at my face

Crows' feet, laugh lines, do all to prove you

Won’t be leaving without leaving a trace

I will miss the smell of your cigarettes

though I bet I still could

Fading vapors of my regret

I’ll hope that you’ve understood

And I won’t be the one

To break the spell

I won’t be the one

Who lives to tell the tale

One day I’ll wake up fresh and new

Into a dream I will wake

Make myself a big breakfast, then

pack my things, run away

Who of us will be wanting then

That so much of us cry?

Who of us will be found neglected,

and without which, the other will die?

And I will be the one

To break the spell

I will be the one

Who lives to tell the tale

And I will be the one

To break the spell

I will be the one

Who lives to tell the taleJ

You know I will live to tell the tale

You know I will live to tell the tale