Misrepresented lyrics

He stands accused, a nameless soul

A prisoner of thirty-five years

Blamed for all that is of malice

Without defense, without counsel

Sentenced to be of bad character

Selfish, shallow, and unaccomodating

Yet for so much time, so few offenses

That can be easily noted now

A year's time has many transgressions

Remembered and constantly returned

To never outrun or outlive

But it is not the same for her

There can be no forgiveness given

Because it is better to be offended

To have control to some measure

And feel superior to another

He buys a guitar, and is always wrong

She gets manicures, pedicures, toes too far

Belly dance classes, luxuries too

The scale seems tipped unfairly

A couple, not a pair but two singles

Where existence is daily depression

Grown into disfunctional normalcy

That invades another's life new

No therapy sought for it is flawed

With traces of implied fault

It points a finger at the truth

Shared blame, unfair portions divided

Destroyed matrimony, yet sins unseen

Carried conduct beyond its frailty

A festering wound with an gangreous stench

That penetrates everything near

It putrifies anything that is of hope

And murders it with no hint of mercy

No tears shed for such a vile crime

That incompassionate void stealing life

A nameless man lives in his shared cell

Victim of inaction and indecision

Exploited for his weaknesses known

His follies multiplied to shame him

One cannot hate him even if he is as said

Not when knowing a part of his world

It is a shame though that decisions

Sometimes wrongly made can never be undone