Tattered, Tangled and Torn

I’m tattered, tangled and torn
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
How much can my brain take?
There’s too much crammed inside
You have power over me
You took the deepest bite
And now I’m running round chasing your shadow
Down the dark lanes of my past
Why, I can’t be loving you*
Just leave me alone
I’m tired of the life
I’m shackled and bound
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
There’s no drug big enough
To scour you from my brain
I, I’m jumbled up
With my battered, troubled* heart
It’s such a tragedy, I’m tempted to laugh
Or to fix a plug-in toaster while having a bath
I use a joke again to cover the pain
But it hurts like hell
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
Why didn’t someone warn me
My heart would be clawed to shreds
That beating piece of meat
Causes so much agony
It would be as fun as the life I know*
Turns us all into cinders
It burns the stomach and creases the face
Though I’m a thousand times bitten*
I still don’t know my place
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
I’m tattered, tangled and torn
Said I’m tattered
Said I’m tattered
Said I’m tattered
Said I’m tattered