I threw my heart away
At the age of seventeen
Within a month you broke it
And I fell down at the scene

I gave it back to you
A choice I now regret
Because I allowed you to fill my life
And it's become my biggest regret

Because I threw my heart away on someone not worthy
Threw it for the cheap thrill of a peaceful sleep
I may as well have swallowed it whole
Into the depths of a slumber deep

Im so angry at the fact by the age twenty
You upped and walked out my life
Id given up who I was for you
And you cut me open with a rusted knife

And from twenty to twenty one
I stumbled in a lost haze
Into the arms of three willing men
Was how I occupied my days

By twenty two I loved anew
Found one so perfect and divine
I love him with every part of me
And am safe in knowing that he is mine

But you son of a bitch you wrecked it
When I threw my heart that one winters day
Because you took all the firsts he should have had
To my absolute bitter dismay

So I threw my heart away in stupidity
Because I was young and unaware
That love, it doesn't just disappear
It cannot vanish into thin air

Instead its prone to wake you
In the stillness of the night
A love that was lost so long ago
Appears like a ghost to give you a fright

And you bury it all, the memories
You let yourself love with a brand new name
But deep down any heart thats been tossed to the gutter
It cannot love the same

Because that excitement and hope
That you have before you hurt
Is gone the second time you fall in love
It lies below the trash amongst the dirt.