Fifteen Years They found him in the bed where they had slept For fifteen years with the letters that he kept Which were written to an ordinary girl Who had nothing in the world And the words explaining why she had gone Said 'I love you but I just can't carry on, Your self abuse is killing every day And I had to get away'. Because it wears her out And it weighs her down It turns her over The words were ours His father said a prayer into his hands And said 'It's tragic but I'll never understand After all the sickness that he'd seen Why he couldn't make it clean' They found her near the end of the street The papers said she never learned to speak So she smiled and dropped the needle to the floor It really doesn't matter any more Because the words were ours they weighed me down they turned me over over and over again All these words are all we leave they're all that you are they're all we have