im overmatched undermanned im trying hard to understand crushed beneath an ounce of hope and flattened by your heavy hand i know youre giving it your everything youre letting me down you say shes gone for the good of all of us and so i should be thankful for the life that lies ahead and be it understood that i have everything well everything is letting me down you say in love we tend to hide we lose ourselves we die inside devotion takes the place of self reliance soon will follow pride and that is why i cannot listen to you grandma not now i never lost myself at all i may have slipped i didnt fall i never hid i didnt die my prides intact im standing tall i gave her everything til everything was letting her down i dont know if she understands or ever will but i know that were better off and better still i hear that shes laughing more than she had been so i know that her bitter heart is sweet again may it put your mind to rest my worry lies with her investing all she had in someone so alone is not the healthiest not that i grew not that i thrived beside a woman so sour oh i had more to give i know i guess i just assumed shed lower certain expectations given life had flung me to and fro and it was all that i could do to stop from shutting right down i should have told her i confess your bitter heart is such a mess in every little drop of blood an ounce of love a pound of stress she never mentioned i was something that was weighing her down  i dont know if she understands or ever will but i know that were better off and better still i hear that shes laughing more than she had been so i know that her bitter heart is sweet again sweet again oh sweet again sweet again oh sweet again