She was standing by a sycamore tree
With a hand of dust just looking at me
And she said when a heart breaks it breaks in thirds
Well the earth took to shaking the sky got dark
And a mockingbird mocked a meadowlark
With a song too damn sad for words
I looked beyond her and I saw the sea
It was roiled and rising violently
And on the pointed waves was a boat that bore her name
Lightning struck and I heard a scream
Stark pulled from the keep of tortured dream
I lie shaking and alone with my shame
Well the best memories hurt worst of all
Like a day of spring amongst weeks of fall
For the tree whose leaves lay scattered on the ground
I paid for those sins with tears and time
The change got back's this lousy rhyme
And the sadness inside to sing it with this sound
Her eyes were filled with hopes on fire
And she spoke the truth with hell's desire
And I never will escape her last words
She was standing by a sycamore tree
With a hand of dust just looking at me
And she said when a heart breaks it breaks in thirds