Paper houses

We live in paper houses
scraps of paper on the floor
looking out of paper windows
opening up our paper doors

and outside are paper buildings
paper thoughts and paper dreams
paper people walk the streets
and I wonder what it means

to live in a paper world
with paper stars above
with paper planets, paper god
but no more paper love

for that's the reason for these words
to let you know as one
that the paper love of my life
has paper upped and gone

and there was I with paper dreams
of paper her and me
of living out our paper life
for paper eternity

but now I sit here on my own
paper black and blue
since she left me for my paper friend
and tore my heart in two

and now I'll set fire to this life
light a bonfire on the floor
as I lie down on my paper bed
and listen to that roar

and in the flames I'll see that love
I thought for sure was true
As I realise now your paper lie
your paper I love you