I like to keep myself in pain
Even when the sun is high
Shining on the olive trees
There's still a shadow in my eyes

And that shadow must be yours
Falling all across the plains
I've got your wreckage in my heart
So I like to keep myself in pain

In the quiet night I sleep
To the sweet cascading rain
Then your voices come to haunt me
So, I like to keep myself in pain
Oh, yeah

I like to keep myself in pain
It's not conscious I just do
Must be something that I learned
From all my time with you

When people ask me where you are
I say, don't ask me that again
Even if I told the truth this time
I wouldn't know how to begin
Pain's the only thing you left me
If I let it go
Then I don't know who I am
In my own brain
It keeps me alive, ooh ooh
It keeps me alive, ooh ooh
It keeps me alive
So I like to keep myself in pain