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Not One Tear In Front of You

you led me on a wild goose chase, a merry merry go round, a way to wantonly waste my time
you schemefully were scheming a scheme and you were hatching a plan to go committing the perfect crime
contriving to go stealing my heart you in a cool and calculated manner consciously and purposefully concocted a ruse and executed it

there's nothing unintentional about the wilful hurt and deceit that you were planning then to perpetrate
you lulled me and inveigled me into my unshielding my heart for you to puncture and to penetrate
you duped me and duplicitously double-crossed and hoaxed me and bamboozled and defrauded me and made a complete and utter fool of me

well now, you mustn't think I'm bitter through and through
I've a much more optimistic point of view
and I'm not prepared to shed one tear in front of you

you took me for a stooge and a mug, a gaumless looker for love whom you could hoodwink and then flimflam
you took me for as much as you could, but as it says in the film - frankly my dear I do not give a damn
you tricked me with your sentimental swindle then maliciously deceived me and manipulated me before you stabbed me in the back

but now, you mustn't think I'm bitter through and through
I've a much more optimistic point of view
and I'm not prepared to shed one tear in front of you

darling don't you worry for me, I will be alright
I'm not pessimistically inclined
now the worst is over, and your face is out of sight
out of sight is out of mind
you're gone - so what ?

no need to explain now just what led you to desert
leaving me for forever through that door
if you're wondering in the meantime how my heart might hurt
well it couldn't any more
you're gone - that's that

for years I've been enduring the burden of unbearable pain and putting pictures of you aside
despite the hurt inflicted on me, the punches square on the chin I've not been driven to suicide
albeit that admittedly the whipping and the lacerations, bruises and contusions and the scratches in my heart have somewhat left their mark

but no, you mustn't think I'm bitter through and through
I've a much more optimistic point of view
and I'm not prepared to shed one tear

no, there won't be only one tear in front of you

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