Coping Lyrics

What's done is done

It's all over

One love undone

But I'm free moreover

The end has come

It's not a pretty one

But a butterfly cannot grace the skies

Unless its larvae feels pain to cry

I see now the flags were rosy and red

And I don't want to lag in a love lost and dead

My self-respect is strengthening while my love for life is lengthening

And baby I wish you well

There's nothing more that I want to tell except

I won't swim around the rocks no more

And I won't wait for the waves to come

And build and crash and drown my head on the shore

I'm out, I'm out

Maybe a little down too

But I'll spend this autumn alone

Try and make sense of living on my own

And I'll be coping in my own way

One moment it's comfort

The next it's despair

Lonely nights make me wish to go

Waltzing back there

To you, where you are

Where you lie in shambles with your broken heart

I can't reach out to you

Please understand it's hard for me to

I know now the choice I made was offhand

And it seems somehow I'm sailing to better lands

My self-esteem is toughening while my shame and woe are roughening

They're sanding into something new

I know we were wrong and I know you do too

And so I won't swim around the rocks no more

And I won't wait for the waves to come

And build and crash and drown my head on the shore

I'm out, I'm out

Maybe a little down too

But I'll spend this autumn alone

Try and make sense of living on my own

And I'll be coping in my own way

So I won't swim around the rocks no more

And I won't wait for the waves to come

And build and crash and drown my head on the shore

I'm out, I'm out

Maybe a little down too

But I'll spend this autumn alone

Try and make sense of living on my own

And I'll be coping in my own way