THE CRIME
When you touch my hand, the racing world stands And everything’s still
And I can’t hold my breath, but forget to breathe when looking at you
Albeit so brief, moments they seem the sweetest with you
And then all of these things are likened to dreams And fade will you too
It’s a crime to have loved you
When in time you would go
Oh such a crime to have loved you
that I’m found guilty of I’m tried and convicted
When I close my eyes, the looking glass lies and tells me you’re near
Yet comfort is mine, the crime’s worth the time To have had you here
EVERYTHING
I’m trying to forget the times I never called
The slipping of my mind, the lines that you abhor
I’m starting to regret the words I never said
And keeping constant score, a foot out of the door
Is this everything to me
I’m wishing on a starand pray it ain’t a plane
But love is not as far as it once seemed to be
I’m adding up my loss and ponder why it is
You never know the cost until you’ve squandered it
Is this everything to me
And the push to shove has sent me tumbling
Longing for the greener grass is it worth it
Though repeat mistakes are often spiraling
Still you never let me go You never let me go
Is this everything to me
A TIME FOR LOVE
An ego bruised and you’re hurting, a flippant word to bleed
And the wound is setting in
Slip of the tongue and you’re gutted. Are you set to scream
when your walls are closing in
This is the time for love
The pain is anticipated when the grief is near But a remedy is here
The is a call for the broken, for the ones who fear If you have them listen hear
This is the time for love
This must be the only way to go now
THE WAR
You Look both ways before you cross then you go jump in front of cars
Your broken bones oh they do mend but that was fun let’s do it again
You take your time and then rush in, breaking any and everything
And taking aim you then retreat, fire once you admit defeat
The war between you and yourself
The endless song you sing.
The fight is fought within
You show no signs of giving in.
You call your bluff and fold your deck and then reveal that the game is chess
And this your rouse has you unraveling, spinning around your neck
You’re wearing out and wearing thin, wondering when the end begins
And then without even a blink you’re back, back up against the ring
The war between you and yourself
The endless song you sing.
The fight is fought within
You show no signs of giving in.
You say it’s fine coz everybody does it
And all your crimes are more of choice than habit
You sew your stripes and bury all your scars under a chuckle and a smile
Convince yourself the war is ok it happens all the time
Time to fold You flag has flown And now you’re giving You’re giving in
And that’s how you win
CELLOPHANE SMILES
Cellophane smiles and plastic happiness.
Bury your cries in choked up sentences
Weathering heights, despite your vertigo.
Stifling sighs, now let’s not make a show
The Glassing of eyes, the sorrow that you sing.
All you deny is all their worrying.
“Don’t worry I’m fine” your broken record plays.
The storm is inside, you brave it everyday
The storm is building, this boat will not go down.
All the roaring, this boat will not go down
Tide is over though the swell overwhelms, it will not blow you over
Cellophane smiles and plastic happiness
Bury your cries to hide your brokenness
THE START OF US
Where a chapter ends and a page begins to fall
Where the song you sing is a solo for no more
Can you hear the harmonies? Can you hear the second string?
Where the strong in us finds the courage to be weak
And in giving up find you’re gaining everything
Would you gladly lose it all only to be found again?
This is the start of us
This is the start of us
I’ll gladly fall apart
Because this is the start of us
Is the falling down worth the height from which you fall
Is there solace found when yourself is all you’ve sought
This is where I start to die for our story to begin
This is the start of us
This is the start of us
I’ll gladly fall apart
Because this is the start of us
Oh, take it all
This is it, here we stand on the edge of reason
and remember if we abandon our fear of falling
In the hope that it might result in some frequent flying
So we poise for it Here we go Here we go and we go on,
to find.. to long for.. to seek..
This is the start of us
This is the start of us
I’ll gladly fall apart
Because this is the start of us
THE MADNESS I MAKE
you and I we’re the same dear, both alike in our pain here
as to who takes the blame we fight
lightning strikes the same place here, tired of living the same shit
though the cover looks great, it’s not.
Find me love
this is falling apart we seem to tear at the heart here
why is something I’d die for, killing me
keep your chin up it’s ok, people say just be happy
how can love find a way when I’m way off
Find me love
Hide me love
and the call of my name in the darkness where I hide away
cries aloud begs me near, lulling me from the madness I make
Where the warmth of my woes keeps me company as they corrode
I’m, in time, torn asunder, left to gather myself and repose
All the lines that I’ve flavoured with my fiction have me now entwined
And the depths that I sank to, didn’t seem very deep at the time
Now my lack becomes clearer in the light of the love that draws near
I am my own deceiver, sick of all of the shit that I’m in
save me love
SURROUNDED
hello I miss you is what my eyes betray
I go to kiss you as you walk away
I spoke of roses where you complained of thorns
I spoke of summers while you weathered storms
you were surrounded at the time
flight turns to falling, and falling to plummeting
the ground it comes rushing up to welcome me
so this is broken but when was it breaking down
and was I blinded or simply shut my eyes
you were surrounded at the time
CHASING LIGHTS
This is not the time for us
This is not the time for us to be giving in
Never mind the start of us
How we finish is all we’ll be remembering
Your seasons swell, you hold your breath How long…
All that you’d held to is bound to bend
Hold on
This is not the time for us
This is not the time for us to be breaking down
All the bridges we’ve once built
Needn’t be the ones we smell burning
Oh Your seasons swell, you hold your breath How long…
All that you’d held to is bound to bend Hold on
Chasing lights
We are chasing lights
A MINOR TO MAJOR
I’ve never weighed my wording, does the sentence match the crime. choking on what I’ve spoken, suffocating. you never cared for counting but mistakes are a score you’ll keep. keep enemies close and your lover closer.
a word, a word is all that’s needed to turn a tide, to change a season
I never wage a war if I cannot foresee a victory, so how did I win yet still need to surrender. you never follow fashion when you follow my advice. shoot or be shot’s the reason you’re the victim.
a word, a word is all that’s needed to turn a tide, to change a season
standing on what’s unspoken, I am left alone and high upon a pedestal intent on falling. clinging to what i’ve broken, breaking the things i try to mend. sow what you say and reap what you regret.
BREATHE
summer’s set and your fall’s nigh, the consequence to lukewarm sentiments,
you pause, rewind a disenchanted reverie, the all that’s sought but never seen, a white that’s left to grey.
Just breathe
the calm that lingers after storms, a quiet respite precedes your dawn. this sinking ship has sailed. I hope you can swim.
images, they flood your fears, the pictures of what once seemed near, the love you pushed away, you now pursue.
Just breathe
It’s all in or it’s all out, Or it’s over before you begin
FROM THE FINISH
take an ending, bend it backwards, and see your way through to the start. plotting putdowns and the heartaches, together yet strangely apart.
but to be who you are i’m happy to be so sad
take an ending, spin it sideways and watch it all pour from the neck. drowning sorrows in a bottle, has the heaven in hurting come clear but to be who you are i’m happy to be so sad I’m sad coz I want to be
take the sadness and the gladness,
can you hear all the harmonies there is it better to have loved her knowing you’d lost in the end
THE GHOST
buried in your breathe, the evidence of all you used to be. you linger on your lies, sucking on poison you think you need.
you don’t get it, no you never get it
the ghost on your shoulders,
the blood stains you can’t ever seem to wash off. Over and over, you succumb to your past, the curses you call home.
riddled with remorse, life despite the dawn is looking dim. buckled by the weight of all the crap that you’re still carrying. you can taste it, you can waste it, oh don’t.
FLIGHT OVER FALLING
Is it fading when it never seemed clear? is it lost when it never appeared to be here? can you drop what was never picked up? can a sun set when you’ve never seen light?
oh I’m falling apart even though from the start I could have easily slipped away,
had the beauty not been worth the break.
is the loving worth the aching that follows? is life worth the death that ensues? can the burn be a price that befits only flames? is the flight worth the fall in the end?
oh I’m falling apart even though from the start I could have easily slipped away, had the beauty not been worth the break.
THE ENEMY
here alone amidst the crowded, you feel secluded though surrounded.
creased and buckled in your grieving, bruised, you break before the beating.
your silence proves the greatest enemy. the quiet corners feed your entropy and the cursing cuts you deeper, how you bleed. bled out.
the words that hurt you most you’re speaking, and pushed from jumped you can’t distinguish
your silence proves the greatest enemy. the quiet corners feed your entropy and the cursing cuts you deeper, how you bleed. bled out.
A REASON TO FLEE
a breeze into storms, lakes into oceans, the emotions that you feed and cloudy is all, all you will whether. all your weather seems so bleak
stay, you stay the waves will crash, the fear will flow stay, just stay to what do you give way? just stay.
SLOW AND STEADY
slow and steady’s how you lost the race, you put off you procrastinate.
tomorrow, i’ll do it tomorrow until tomorrow’s today.
today is an ocean and you’re on the beach afraid of what you’ve never seen. you bury your head in the sand you idiot this treasure will…
slip away
Opportunity knocks while you’re out
or passed out asleep on the couch. no messages after the beep, no second chance if you’re asleep.
don’t blink or you’ll miss twenty years, or spend twenty more wondering how you managed to totally miss this.
idiot, this treasure will…
slip away
ANYTHING IN YOU
Pieces i’m puzzled by, they seem to fit with You. Is it a ruse? that I am more when i’m with You.
And though my world may fall, I’m built anew on you. is it a ruse? that I am everything in You.
I could be anything in you empty You made me full, and broken made me new is it a ruse? who I am now that i have You.
and how i’d lose it all in hope of gaining You. is it a ruse? I’m more than most when I’m with you.
love is a winding road but i’ve wound up confused is this a ruse that I am found when lost in you
BEAUTY AT IT’S BEST
wait for it, it’s set to blow, the final act to a one man show. with a tightened grip you’re pushing through, but the peak you reach isn’t worth the view. is it beautiful?
plasticine to build the dream, paper cuts are your ticket in. are you rich enough? popular enough? if your skin is clear you are welcome here.
IT’S OK I’M FINE
everything’s ok, everything is fine here. look the other way and you’ll see everything much clearer someone lock the doors, someone shut the windows when you close your eyes, don’t you know it isn’t really there
nothing there everything is fine if it isn’t then you fake it. lather it with lies and later even you’ll believe it. everything’s sublime when you don’t talk about it. the numbing over time is filtering the facts and what you fear
what you fear nothing there there you go.