Bad Pennies

Those good times are gone
So I leave them alone
Green copper pennies
That I left in the road

Isn't it funny how now that we see
If we'd saved just a few for us - you and me
How much more we'd have been in the end
How much richer we still would be

No matter how hard we cry
How we say don't say goodbye
Our favorite lovers and friends always find
Warm hiding places to lay down and die

After everything's taken away
They'll leave the things nobody wants
The screams, the sneers, and the taunts
This house as a home will be unwanted
And by two lost souls, forever haunted

Maybe somebody braver than us someday
Will wander their way into this place
And roll up the dollars and dimes
As he gazes up into his lover's blue eyes

Treat it less like a tomb and more like a church
And make it certain she is always put first
And he'll keep his promises shiny and new
Something that we could never manage to do

Cause they were just pennies
Neither good - neither bad
Coins can't know nothin'
But human hearts can

<--revised 7/22/14-->