Page 135 of Sweet Days


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starting to shake. “I did expect better of you,” she

concludes on the verge of tears as she gets up and

heads upstairs.

There is no place I cannot go … My mind is

muddy but my heart is heavy. Does it show? I lose

the track that loses me, so here I go.

What do they all want from me? What are they

trying to find under the surface? I’m not hiding

anything. I am an absolute nothing and will remain

so. For all of my fucking life. I will not let myself

be taken for a fool anymore nor will I ever let a

woman try to get close to what she doesn’t know,

something that’s so deep inside of me, that is total

blackness and all it does is suck everything into

itself in an instant to then destroy it in a second.

Because I destroy every fucking thing.

Give me reason but don’t give me choice …

’Cause I’ll just make the same mistake again.

5

The last words of that depressed asshole James

Blunt push me over the edge and I turn my back to

the counter and throw the glass I was washing

against the wall. I throw it with all the force I have

5Same Mistake, James Blunt, All the Lost Souls

in my body. It’s enough to almost dislocate my

shoulder.

The customers all turn to see what’s happening

and I come up with some stupid excuse to get

away from this disgusting pub, this stupid family

and from her and the hope that there could be