Your Memory Will Linger

He was the king of the one line chat ups,
And he wore a paper crown,
He stole your heart away from me,
And you both laughed as I went down,
Slaughtered by his sarcasm,
Tormented like a clown,
But the tears I wept were no party trick,
Meant to entertain a crowd.

Can't you see you're just another notch,
Carved into his wooden heart?
He's just a dandy of the neon light,
He'll kick you out after dark.
Or maybe he's what you've been looking for,
And maybe you'll last longer than soon,
While I convalesce a broken heart,
As your poison inflames my wounds.

Now I sit alone in the bar room,
Drinking whisky straight, delux,
As Snow Patrol wax their weeping melodies,
From the speakers of a crying jukebox,
And their melancholy lyrics,
Ring through my ears like morbid psalms,
Bringing back broken memories,
Of who you were, and what I am.

I am a man with a shadowed past,
All my memories are vague,
Wrapped up in a mist of scotch,
As they slowly fade away.
Drunken ramblings of a time gone by,
When a happiness was felt,
A long since sunk Utopia,
I'm no longer sure I know myself.

But who else could I possibly be?
I'll never take the place of him,
I was never good at one line romance,
And I sure don't have his charm.
I lost out to his silver tongue,
To his cheap romantic one liners,
Now I guess it's time for me to move on,
But I know your memory will linger.