Please don’t read this is if you love me
Because for you it would only hurt
I’d rather suffer silently
Than utter a painful word
For you see I’m dying and you’re what I love best
So please don’t read this, your heart I wish not to test

You see I’m dying, beat by beat, tick by tick
If you see me crying, it’s because with worry I’m sick
For if I make you angry and that tick is my last
My heart will fill with sorrow, unable to pump it past
So please don’t read this if you love me
Because I don’t want you to know
I try so hard to please thee
And never let it show

Please don’t suspect that, what beats within my chest
Is my life’s betrayer, the purveyor of my death
Know it only by its warmth, and by how it loves you
Know it only by its kindness, and how it has been true
So please don’t read this if you love me
I don’t want to hurt you so
I try so hard to please thee
And never let it show

If I were one morning, to fall lifeless in your arms
I don’t want you to mourn me, or cry out for gods’ alms
I want you to forget me, and find happiness in life
And know that I left swiftly, and was freed from my strife
So please don’t read this if you love me
I couldn’t bear for you to see
What waxes and wanes within me
And beckons me to go