Splintering Heart Lyrics - Marillion

There's a hot hard hurt 

Burning under her skin 

And it pricks her like thorns 

And it's needles and pins 

And it twists in her body 

And I know what it is 

And I'm paying in pain 

But it's the cost of the high 

'Till the weight of the secret 

And the weight of the lie 

Makes my heart want to burst 

Feel the ache as time goes by 

Getting better and worse 

Getting better and worse 

And there's a screw that I tighten 

As I dream of the kiss 

And it twists and it cuts me 

And you know what it is? 

It's a fragment of love 

From a splintering heart 

And it tears her apart 

But not as much as this 

So you save up your tears 

For the moments alone 

'Till the splinters you gather 

Leave you glass-hard and numb 

And the same sun is shining 

On the old and the young 

On the saints and the sinners 

On the weak and the strong