Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?

Even a jerk can be a total sweetheart, it just takes the right girl to find his heart and to become his world.

I fell in love with dressing myself up.

What lies ahead is more pain at the pump.

All knots that lovers tie
Are tied to sever.
Here shall your sweetheart lie,
Untrue for ever.

In time, she eased into sleep, and her head rested against the plane of his shoulder. He held her and wondered that such a simple intimacy between a man and woman could mean so much.