LJ Chaplin

LJ Chaplin Sep 2013

Verse One
Looking back on the days of my youth,
Reckless and young, and life was fool proof,
I sit there and smile as I look at the past,
Then my heart starts to melt because I want it to last,
The parties all night and staying in bed all day,
Oh how I wish those times never ran away.

Chorus
Those were the days,
Those were the times I loved,
Photographs and distant laughs,
Innocent fools and breaking rules,
These were the years that time forgot,
Yeah those were the days.

Verse Two
Nostalgia is catching like a fire,
But now this feeling is about to expire,
But photos they hold all the stories we told,
The truth, the dares, how we broke the mould,
Clothes stained with dirt and our minds weren’t so clean,
I crave for the years of how it should still be.

Chorus
Those were the days,
Those were the times I loved,
Photographs and distant laughs,
Innocent fools and breaking rules,
These were the years that time forgot,
Yeah those were the days.

Bridge
I’m still a child at heart,
I want this life to slow down,
Rewind the clock and restart,
Instead of this chaos that I live in now.

Chorus x 2**
Those were the days,
Those were the times I loved,
Photographs and distant laughs,
Innocent fools and breaking rules,
These were the years that time forgot,
Yeah those were the days.

Some lyrics that I wrote for a Little Monster. Would love to get back into songwriting again, and I felt so happy when he asked me to write some for him for his demo CD.

LJ Chaplin Sep 2013

MANnequin

I have to run faster now,
I have to leave this town,
Change my name,
Change my face,
**** my identity and leave no trace,
The monster you made is creeping in the dark,
Yearning for the taste of a beating heart,
The bitter scent of soiled blood,
Alcohol and cigarettes,
Another fish caught in the net.

This kid is far from a ***** hot mess,
When he's unable to hide the stress,
To hold down tears that smell like Jack,
Barely able to keep himself back,
From the edge of his so called sanity,
Fractured by the pressure of male vanity.

This MANnequin is just a boy,
18 years and feels destroyed,
Metal pecs and washboard abs,
A dream of his while he covers the 'flab',
Betrayed by friends who style their hair
While he keeps on running so they don't stare
At the failure of physical attraction,
Repulsed by the existence of his own reflection,
Another flaw on a social scale,
**A grizzly end to this unwanted tale.

LJ Chaplin Sep 2013

My December Love

Frostbite lips,
Glacial eyes,
Snowflake teardrops
As you melted away,
My December love.

I knew our love would never last,
Our intimacy was scorching hot,
Our devotion smouldered in the dark,
My Summer heart made you melt
In the palms of my hands.

Strike me in the chest with an icicle,
Take me under with a raging avalanche,
Make me lose myself in a blizzard,
Make it snow long enough
*So that we are stuck inside our minds until Winter returns next year.

LJ Chaplin Sep 2013

Haiku: Relief

I write to break free,
Haiku's like these destroy pain,
Syllabic relief.

LJ Chaplin Sep 2013

Sick

It's clear, the ugliness you're hiding,
Unfold the sins that you are disguising,
Liar, cheater, traitor, you're sick and twisted,
Unfold the hate that you are disguising.

Maybe I should burn my whole world down,
With a single matchstick,
Your existence is catching
And that's why I'm so sick.

It's clear, our minds are both colliding,
Unfold the flaws in your silver lining,
Evil, stupid, coward, you're sick and bitter,
Unfold the truth behind your silver lining.

Inspired by the song 'Swine' by the incredible Lady Gaga.

LJ Chaplin Aug 2013

What Have You Done?

Let me tell you about how I feel,
I promise not to bore you,
If you promise to let me heal.
I've been bullied,
Attacked,
Ridiculed,
Hated,
Pushed to the breaking point,
Because of the words that have been stated.

I've been shunned and ashamed,
Labelled with names,
That do not justify who I am,
I have been ignored and refused,
And verbally abused
By people who I thought would understand.

Am I a part of collateral damage?
Another scar from stereotypical carnage?
The bullets took off,
But yet you all forgot,
About the boy who took every single shot.
I told you I'm fine,
Because after all I'm defined
To act like nothing has happened.

You're probably thinking,
Wow this screams for attention,
But if that thought crossed your mind,
You're in serious need of a certain lesson.

I don't expect you to change your ways,
But to consider the way you behave,
Towards a person who wants to feel alive,
But struggles to breathe because they're hurting inside.

This is the story of a boy who cried help,
Built to be destroyed by a world who made him hate himself.

LJ Chaplin Aug 2013

I Must Be Kind

Chain me to the ground,
I'm looking down
At the jagged rocks below,
Hold your breath,
There's still so much left,
I've just got to take things slow.

Steady mind,
I must be kind,
And be as patient as I can be.
Control the shaking,
The time needs taking
To find the better person in me.