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I’m kneeling on the floor, weeping over her body. Blood, blood everywhere and shards of broken glass. Who did this? I can’t remember. Was it me? All around the room there is blood. The mirror is broken.

Memories are just where you laid them
drag the waters til the depths give up their dead

She was so upset. Screaming, screaming and crying. And screaming. Something about her step-mother. I tried to comfort her. Tried to stop her. I told her; oh I told her it wasn’t the answer! She wouldn’t listen.  I couldn’t stop her. I could never say no to her. And now, and now…

what did you expect to find
was there something you left behind

The room is so different now. So cold. Only moments ago it was full of heat and of life. Her life. She summoned me. She said she wanted…it. Said she wanted a way out. Wanted to leave her world forever. She wanted me to do it. Oh how could she ask me to do it? Ask me to snuff out the fragile light of her life. To break her pale young body and reeve the life from it. I could never say no to her.

don’t you remember anything I said when I said

I told her to think about it. I told her she had all the time in the world to be dead and only so little to be alive. She wouldn’t listen; she sobbed on my shoulders and told me to kill her. She said she couldn’t face life any more. She said she wanted to stay with me forever. I told her we could do that anyway.

“No! I can’t stand it any more! I can’t stand all these people! I can’t stand being alive!”

“Babes, I know you’re upset but think-“

“I AM thinking!” she’d screamed. “You think I haven’t thought about this before?”

“And hasn’t it always worked out alright? C’mon Lyds I’m here for ya.” I put my arm on her shoulder.

“If you won’t do it I will!”

Don’t fall away
and leave me to myself

The room seems to spin around me. I’m on my knees. I think I’m crying. I haven’t cried in, in forever. My pale hair is blocking my vision. I’m holding her. I can feel her blood seeping onto my jacket. She’s still so warm. She’s still breathing.
“Don’t go,” I’m pleading with her.

don’t fall away

I don’t think she can hear me anymore. Her eyelids are fluttering her pale skin is whiter than ever before. White as a sheet, white as a ghost. There are streaks of red all across her, blood on new fallen snow.

and leave love bleeding in my hands
in my hands again

“You wouldn’t do it!” I had told her as she approached the mirror, “Please, Lyds, you can’t!” I stood in her way.

She shoved me aside. “Why not?!” She slammed her fist into the mirror, the sound of ice bells breaking and the first drops of blood arced across her hand.

“Lydia!” I grabbed her fist, the blood hot in my palm.

and leave love bleeding in my hands
in my hands
love lies bleeding

“Let me die. Please, kill me,” she’d pressed up against me sobbing. “I want to die, but I don’t want to die alone.”

I could never say no to her.

Hold me now I feel contagious
am I the only place that you’ve left to go

How could things have gotten so bad for her? How could her life be so terrible? I know she’s always loved the Neitherworld, but the ability to visit had always been enough for her before. I can’t believe I’m the only person who really cares about her. That there’s no one alive who loves her. She doesn’t think she’ll be missed.

she cries her life is like
some movie black and white
dead actors faking lines

“Is there really nothing worth living for?” I asked her.

“Nothing,” she’d replied, shaking her head. “You’re all that I’ve got. There’s no point.”

“Do you really feel that way?”

over and over and over again she cries

“Yes”

“Yes?” I asked her one more time.

“Yes!”

Don’t fall away
and leave me to myself

I did it. I took her in my arms and with a phantom blade I stabbed her through the heart. I saw the blood soak her chest, saw her smile and fall limp into me. She’s still breathing, but she won’t be soon. She’s broken now.

don’t fall away

Kneeling beside her on the floor I brush the hair from her face, whisper to her not to be afraid. But she’s still smiling. She isn’t the one who’s afraid. That’s me.

and leave love bleeding in my hands
in my hands again

She’ll be gone from this world so soon. And I suppose she’s right, we’ll be together forever. No more hiding. But somehow I can’t help feeling that the tender creature in my arms in dieing. My Lydia is dieing.

and leave love bleeding in my hands
in my hands
love lies bleeding

And I can’t’ help feeling that I killed her. I killed her; I stole her thirst for life with my taste of death. I ruined her, oh she is dead. She’s stopped breathing now. Her body is in my arms but there’s no one there anymore. Her blood is getting cold, it’s drying.

And I wanted

I wanted her to live. I wanted to give her a reason to live, not take it away. But it didn’t work out that way. And now she is going to walk my road.

You turned away

I should have seen it coming as she spent more and more time with me on the other side. I should have noticed she was only happy when I was with her. But how could I?

You don’t remember

She spent so long with me I guess she forgot any reasons she had to stay alive.

but I do

I remember all those times we spent together in this world. I thought I could make her life worth living. I guess I was wrong.

you never even tried

But maybe that was never what she wanted.

Don’t fall away
and leave me to myself

I lean down one more time and kiss her cold cheek. What her parents will do when they find her body I don’t know. It doesn’t matter anyway. I pick her up off the ground and hold her mortal body in my arms one more time. I set her on the bed.

don’t fall away
and leave love bleeding in my hands
in my hands again

I’m looking at her, covered in blood and at peace. My cheeks are stained with tears, like hers. Both of us wet and bloody. I can feel someone behind me. I turn around.

and leave love bleeding in my hands
in my hands again

And she’s there again, with me. Beautiful as always, paler and the blood is gone. She is dead, dead, dead. And still she is here, with me.

“Beetlejuice?” she whispers.

I smile sadly. “Hey babe. How you doing?”

She smiles back and then throws her arms around me. I hold her close. She is mine now, forever.

and leave love bleeding in my hands
in my hands again

She whispers in my ear. “Beetlejuice lets go home.”

I run my fingers through her beautiful dark hair. “Anything you say Lyds.”

“Thank you Beetlejuice.”

And together, for the last time from this world, we disappear.