Common Tragic

She stares at the fireplace
It needs to be renewed
Then she falls deep inside herself
Where there's no fire left in the heart
She tells her man she has got to go
Or the world don't grow
Around her yearning heart
Or the love she does not yet know

So common tragic is what finds her there now
Common tragic nothing more
And common tragic is what unbinds them there now
When her heart yearns to burn

She packs her stuff in the suitcase
She don't want that home
She wants what she cannot yet name
She wants love like the rest of us
But she don't know where it grows
Where it lives and flows
And makes shine her yearning heart
And shows her true course

So common tragic is what finds her there now
Common tragic nothing more
Common tragic with no common sense at all
When fire burns in the heart

Now she's on her own
Searching for love
And she thinks she's just found it again
With this sweet man who calls her beautiful
But behind that first sweet smile
Is the Devil himself
Who will burn away her yearning heart
And faith in love at all

So common tragic is what finds her there now
Common tragic nothing more
And common tragic is what binds her there now
Burns away love and now she can't go

Now she's stuck with this man
And the stories he tells
That toss, turn and tie down her heart
And the Love Story makes her stay
But if she could only see
That the Devil's not real
Then she could go anywhere and be free
Where true love could really grow

So remember this
Boys, two spirits and girls
Already in your early years
When your heart begins that yearning
Don't just invite all the Devils in