Living Through Lyrics - 7/29/09

The power is yours
The song is your own
To open the doors
To bring light to unknown

The music so intense
The speakers might bleed
The sounds jump the fence
Ride away on the steed

The lyrics are your life
If you let them be
They can take away the strife
Of the rest, of you and me

You can live through the lyrics
Live on forever
Just let one person hear it
And you’ve opened the endeavor
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I feel it necessary to make an 'about' section for this one.
Was working on a lesson of language arts, and wound up with this. Don't really care for it, at all, but I figured I'd post it anyway.

Admiration and Appreciation - 7/22/09

Not expecting admiration
Or aspiring for a crown
Not looking for appreciation
Just waiting for a letdown

Waiting for a call
Waiting for someone
Nothing left but to fall
And we’re expecting no one

A strange, numb feeling
In a broken home
There is no time for healing
We still feel alone

Soon it will be lost
The expectations hover
It comes at a cost
Just until it’s over

Shattered - 03/14/09

Stitches unraveled
Hearts soon are shattered
Playing still in the motion
Caught up in the moment

Turn the key
Then let them be
Before it's over
Nothing but maybe

And when it was red
The subtlety bled
Out into ashes
Flamed up, massive crashes

Waiting and screaming
Endlessly dreaming


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Huh. One of those after-three-a.m. deals.

Take The Blame - 02/14/09

She likes to think she's different
She likes to think it's right
But maybe it's just wrong
Creeping, crawling through the night

Don't be careful
Undial 9-1-1
Just another daredevil
Forever on the run

Kick the can
She's off again
She's never looking back
Oh, no

She realizes
She's just the same
As everyone else
She's figuring out
How to play the game
She's not different
She's just the one to blame

Untie the string
What the night will bring
She doesn't care, anymore
She's just gonna sing

And throw away
What happened before
She can't stay
For even one more

And it won't come back
While she's on track
No, it can't fall down
While everyone's around

Kick the can
She's off again
She's never looking back
Oh, no

She realizes
She's just the same
As everyone else
She's figuring out
How to play the game
She's not different
She's just the one to blame

And it's time to let go
Of everything she thought she knew
The time to say no
Passed by long ago

It's not over
But it's not beginning
Everything's changed
But it's all still the same

And she's realized
She's not the same
As everyone else
She's figured out
How to play the game
And she's so different
She's so easy to blame

Cryptic Car Crash - 02/13/09

I'm so high
On Nerds and caffeine
Wondering why
You can't say what you mean

You're always so cryptic
To the point of decay
When things don't click
You just throw them away

Blow it up
Pop a couple Ritalin
Throw it up
You can't fake this sin

And things won't flow
If you learn to let go
If you stitch up the scar
You've just crashed the car

And it's over
You don't know what comes next
Yeah when it's over
You just can't fake the test

Blow it up
Pop a couple Ritalin
Throw it up
You can't fake this sin

Slice it open
Too soon it's broken
And then it's dead
It's all in your head

But you don't know what you're doing
Too much longer and
You won't be doing
Whatever it is you think you're doing

Time to blow it up
We're all on Ritalin
Throw it up
No one can fake this sin

When you stitch up the scar
You've just crashed the car

And we're on Ritalin
We'll blow it up
We can't fake the sin
So we'll just throw it up

Drought - 02/12/09

It's all so wrong
And it's taking so long
The end is nearing
But the mind isn't clearing

The wrapping unwinding
Life free of it's binding

When the chapters are written
The pages strewn about
Before you were bitten
During the drought

The wrapping unwinding
Life free of it's binding

And minds change
Over and again
If you wait too long
They won't make the end

The wrapping unwinding
Life free of it's binding

Drowned but still breathing
Stitched up and bleeding
Broken yet beating
The end is retreating

The wrapping unwinding
Life free of it's binding
Stitched up and bleeding
Stripped of it's meaning

Red - 02/10/09

Time falling through our fingers
But forever it won't linger

They tell you to live fast
They say forget the past
But when you listen
When you know
The time it can't last

And then it's over
And the leaves are turning red
And when they fall
It's not over at all

When they say it's over
And things start to fall
When they say it's over
It's not over at all

And Ronaldo's dead
A shovel to the head
They ask God what went wrong
Then it's back to evolution

The time is the problem
The days are at fault
The years are hanging
Open the vault

When the clock falls away
When you break at the bend
When it all goes astray
That's when it ends

Empty Statements - 02/10/09

The way he talks
Just how she moves
Lost long walks
Someone will lose

And they don't want to be
All alone
No, they just want
To find a way home

Pulling out her hair
She doesn't know they care
While he's back home
Drowning in his rum

They need an escape
Not another empty statement
The time bomb unwinding
What happened to fate?

Nothing's alright
And nothing's okay
Not even the night
Darkness can't take it away

And if I was a little more worth it
The whole thing would be less perfect

Bones - 02/10/09

The bones of the past
Buried deep inside
You know it can't last
They're along for the ride

Scribbling out
The endless screeches
Around and about
In the far, dark reaches

You can't escape
There's nowhere to turn
Don't count on fate
Because fate lets you burn

Departing - December/08

It was good
It was bad
It was happy
And sad

But it's finished
It's over
It won't come again
So take off your shoes
And lay down your pen

Another one starting
In just a short time
The old one departing
Alone in the rhyme

New promises made
New steps to be taken
New boundaries to cross
New times to be shaken