Secrets and Lies

She says, 'Some days I feel so angry, I could kill everyone. But right now, I'm taking codeine. I don't feel anything'.

He says, 'No, things aren't going so well, her parents are here, it's not good, she takes it all out on me'.

She says, 'This is where she bit my finger', turning her hand down and showing a missing nail.

He says, 'Some days I feel so empty, so alone, this self-loathing makes me hit myself. My mother had postnatal depression when I was a baby. I'm too scared to talk to her about it'.

She says, 'I can't talk about the girls father, they might hear, they're at a sensitive age'.

He says, 'I've been a serial monogamist my whole life, I want to experience something different, a freedom to explore relationships inside and out.'

She says, 'You betrayed yourself, you were deceitful to only one person, yourself'.

He says, 'I think I should be able to fuck anyone. They want it, I give it to them and they like it rough'.

She says, 'He told me to leave, I'm 40 years old and I had to go home and sleep at my dad's house. I transferred $40,000 out of the bank account. I've been in enough relationship break-ups not to walk out empty handed this time. I'm taking the bed too'.

He says, 'I used to be a prostitute, I got paid really good money. I was good. I miss that life. I miss the money. Now I have a legitimate lifestyle, legitimate partner, I'm broke and bored'.

She says, 'Some days the office politics gets me down. There is four people in my workplace... He doesn't know how to communicate, so he gets her to leave nasty notes on my desk'.

He says, 'I'm not scared of dad anymore'.

Out amongst the walking wounded
every face on every street
you and me and him and her
some days I think I could go insane.