A Light In Paradise

How can you forget. your suffering future?. You'll never forget. what I said to you. . Time is the best friend of you. Summer is dawning as always I'll dress.

You Always Wreck Closest To Home

Am I allowed to say. That I feel better these days. Despite the rumors. Despite the plans that didn't go our way. Stumble to the overpass. A repeat of three years ago before.

A Dreamer Can Touch The Sky

Win Or Lose (by The Friends You Choose)

I know you let it go. A long time ago. Along with us and everywhere we'll go. I love the way. You got a grip and stabbed away. At the backs that broke to help you from the start.

Waterways

I threw you back in the water. Where it seems that you grew legs. Walked out on the other side. Shedding mermaid tales and former lives. Finally without me.

Under Yellow Lights

My heart doesn't beat like it should. I can feel it in my throat. With every paralyzing through. Ever full-breath attempted note. . No, I'm not the same.

Tired

I'm so tired. Of being conquered by. All the same old things. I want to hold my head up high. Just for today. Lately all the positive things that I say.

Time To Heal

Never touch on the topic of entitlement. But I'm scared and weathered. Worn and weak,. Infantile, yet spent. I'll put a flag in this rock. A semblance of home.

The Footholds

This could've been a train wreck. A total disaster. The end of everything that to this point mattered. Nicks and scraped and fatal falls. Private breakdowns and tearful calls.

Sunofagunasaur

Would it be that hard. To turn and walk away. Forget everything I've said. Cause like it or not. The time has come for things to change. To live how you feel led.

Sketchbooks

We have one week left. And damn, I love these accents. But, my God, I miss my bed. And reading signs I understand. I still do love this. And I said I could keep it up.

Seeds

Sidetracked to those steps today. The ones we always had to take. Our best-potential-friends to by the lake. The water's down, but it works for me. It always rises in the spring.

Say It With The

The leaves will all be gone when I get home. So I am counting on you to be the colors and the tones. I'm reading all your words from a thousand miles away.

Rafters

Sometimes I think I died in the rafters that night. Shocked to death, barely 25. Limp limbs, heart electrified. One burnt arm, an open casket for these friends of mine.

Present Tense

A child on church steps. Reminding me of me. Not in my current state. More content, more clean at seventeen. Whoever he's talking to. I pray they're listening.

Waste Away

the kids in the street are coming down. there ain't no money left in this town. pounds for a gram is so unreal. if you can't get a scrip then you need to steal.

Playing Games

We're not playing games. So don't you act confused. Or take it as permission for you. To back down, sit it out,. Or not stand up at all. . And fight. Like you mean it and.

Pencil Marks And Door Frames

I can't separate reality from fact. Or read people any better that a sign on my own back. Trust is damaged, confidence is cracked. And has been. Long enough.

Victim

feeling numb, nearly dead. no more left is what they said. all fucked up we're all used. another cabbage has blown a fuse. . victim victim they've made a victim.

Pass The Powerchords

Go ahead, push play. It's the only way. You'll ever hear this voice again, dear. No, I'd never call you that. Not from a mile away with someone else's lips.