One, two, three, four

No, no do it again once more

Erase what you've read

Don't you know chivalry is dead?

Five, six, seven, eight

You better not be late

Don't you remeber what happened last time?

Or have you already forgotten?

Nine, ten, eleven, twelve

Deeper into the mind you delve

At first there's nothing but white space

This is where the memories tried to be erased

Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen

What's about to go next cannot go unseen

No matter how deep you've buried it

You're chained to it for all of eternity

Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty

The brain stores plenty

But when you tug on that chain

It brings back the pain as if it were yesterday

Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four

Bury it again once more

Think of a better time

Sing your nursery rhyme

And pray that you can not only forgive but forget

Twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight

This is the number of years it's been since that mistake

Pressing on but always reminiscing

It is this constant digression

That makes me plead for repression

But no one hears me