We're All Sissies When The Night Falls

Something happens at night when you're going through a bad split like this. No matter how strong you are during the day, no matter how determined you are to be "okay", when you get into the bed you once shared, all alone, knowing that they're not coming back, all your defenses come crashing down. Your resolution crumbles and you're finally free to express the heartbreak that you try so hard all day long to hide. That's when the tears start to fall.

You try so hard to properly convey pain your feeling, hoping, praying that somehow, they'll know what they're doing to you, what you're going though. Then you hear a song that says it all.

For me, that song was "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room" by John Mayer.



It's not a silly little moment
It's not the storm before the calm
This is the deep and dying breath of
This love we've been working on

Can't seem to hold you like I want to
So I can feel you in my arms
Nobody's gonna come and save you
We've pulled too many false alarms

We're going down
And you can see it too
We're going down
And you know that we're doomed
My dear
We're slow dancing in a burning room

I was the one you always dreamed of,
You were the one I tried to draw
How dare you say it's nothing to me
Baby, you're the only light I ever saw

I'll make the most of all the sadness
You'll be a bitch because you can
You'll try to hit me just to hurt me
So you leave me feeling dirty
Because you can't understand

We're going down
And you can see it too
We're going down
And you know that we're doomed
My dear
We're slow dancing in a burning room

Go cry about it - Why don't you?
Go cry about it - Why don't you?
Go cry about it - Why don't you?

My dear, we're slow dancing in a burning room

Don't you think we oughta know by now?
Don't you think we shoulda learned somehow?