Victoria

Victoria, I hate to be the one to tell you this
But it’s gone beyond
Everyone’s idea of a joke
I know you’re here
On every surface I smell you near
The scent of cigarettes and Belvadere
Victoria

Morning came, you changed your name
Into a V
no one knows
What you saw, that made your poor heart bleed

Triumphantly
You did declare your only love was me
So how could he shut you away?

But when I sing
That’s when I end and then you begin
It’s sickening in a curious way

But he was strong, his arms were longer than yours
What a cruel finishing, the punishing
Just to be sure

Well he’ll know your name
And I now I know I can feel your pain
Again and again and again
What have I done?

My cell is cold
I am so empty and unconsoled
Out of the centerfolds
Victoria

I was alive, so many times
Under your spell
It’s just as well
You are gone, I won’t be wronged in hell

All of your ashes still burning
Voices that call in the night
I feel as if I have carried you all of my life

Victoria, I will remember nothing else,
Victoria, you were the one