This is the truth Or as close at it gets I was in love, she was all I could want But that's not how it ends Oh when I would rest My head on her breast I won't deny, she could tempt me to life With the slightest caress I was the same somehow As I am now But love doesn't check It only connects Selecting its prey Then it pulls them away By the scruff of the neck No way the same future For her and I Not once I'd met his eye One to her heart with each word I said Out of her arms and into his bed I found something more at her expense But now I've laid it to rest Save for the day that I left There was no way I could spare her that pain That's my only regret Hard to handle Hard to forget By the scruff of the neck