I trade my soul for your story
Broken colors strung together
Once for love and then for glory
A chorus made of unmade letters
Written from love's lasting shadow
Against our will our hearts are stolen
Swept away by fated arrows
In photographs we still remember
Which we recite in lonely whispers
Reminding us untouched sinners
A second glance when we miss her

The weekend is nearly here                                                             ­               My friends are finished playing
So they catch me on their way
To the bar that’s not a bar.

The waitresses can always tell
When brothers look the same
She gives us quite the laugh
In the bar that’s not a bar.

Others came, but a little late
Two tables is all it takes
Until they need to leave again
From the bar that’s not a bar.

Among the guys she’s alone,
Or were there three, who can see
It’s just another conspiracy
At the bar that’s not a bar.

All the teacher run away
With the fighting players,
And the servers drinking
Inside the bar that’s not a bar.

Flash of light and its around
A girl’s fame shared by all
He’s fine but she is shamed
Far from the bar that’s not a bar.

He’s looking straight ahead,
The mirror staring back at him
Love is working mysteriously
For the bar that’s not a bar.

It’s getting late almost two
Talking as they fall asleep
They see each other differently
Back at the bar that’s not a bar.

When we leave they say to stay
Need to check your identity
Guess they forgot all about me
Leaving the bar that’s not a bar.

Sitting down I finish writing
That I think I see the silver lining
Of having friends who see each other
At the bar that’s not the bar.

I’m an old man dancing in the lake

with flowers dying before they bloom

better to break them than to lose them,

cause madness always seems friendly,

until you see what’s inside me.

The moment’s gone before you look

seeing nothing, but a need to grow,

but lovers always start in the soul.

Long ago I related to my elders,

the older I get the more I’m a child,

Puck can’t come  play in the winter.

I’m not black, white, good or evil,

cause every demon was once an angel.

You try too live so that you can love,

I’m going to love so that I can live.

When the sun is made of kryptonite,

a heart that sings strums its scars,

like a child witness their first dawn,

I’m no longer drowning in the lake.

I'm feeling oh so lonely

and just need to be alone.

Got a drive to conquer,

but I'll sleep instead.

I'm too afraid to dance

when I just need to move.

Don't ask me to speak,

cause I have too much to say.

I'll wear a frozen mask

right beside my heart of fire.

Yeah, it keeps me warm,

and it burns me alive.

I'll joke with hard logic,

I just don't follow its rules.

I'm always dreaming,

even when I can't fall asleep.

No reason to leave,

but I don't have the itch to stay.

Always hard to just say no

unless you're someone I know.

I see that sometimes I'm wrong,

and sometimes it's not worth being right.

I'm a second-rate romantic

believing in a first-rate love.

I'm quiet and shy

going crazy inside.

Please don't look at me,

but I need you to see me.

Can't say I understand

the paradox inside me.

I heard my mother yesterday
like an echo with something to say
with a heart patched up with love,
and trials for all she hasn’t lost.

I fall apart with my friend
like a rock carried by the wind
with the gifts she always gives,
and the lies she takes away.

I say goodbye to my lover
like the whisper of a broken heart
with every scar she delivered,
and her heartfelt silence.

I forget myself with my sisters
like a secret in a song unsung
with a faith of perfect vision,
and all they share with their brothers.

I hold the hand of my bride
like a dollar you’re afraid to be apart from
with every trap that’s before us,
and the time we lose track of.

I look into my daughter’s eyes
like the eye in the hurricane
with her mother lying right beside me,
and my girl hears an echo in the wind.

I’m told that Eve's the cause of every sin
like one tree unjustly burned among the others
without the chance given to the man,
and were it true, Eve would be worth it.

I swim through the roses
Blooming among the dying
Leaving the stars behind me
Taking a harsher path.

Life is nothing but a lover
Doesn’t last after all
The only love that matters
Is the one we leave behind.

Suppose for just one second
Or perhaps a minute more will do
That hope is only beauty
When it burns a mark in you.

Time to continue on
For another night  
But how do flowers grow
In the winter’s shadows?

When left alone
we’re afraid
but I guess that’s just
how we were made.

Do you remember
where you were
when everything begins to burn.
at the fall of our December?

I’m like a Christmas breeze
running to the American dream
all the people sleeping
What are you seeing?

No one left to learn the lies
that follows up a moment’s death
causes you lose after all your tries.
underwater without a chance.

Ain't ain't a word
if you haven't heard.
So that you know
after a while it begins to show.
Giving up all we should keep
based off how a fellow speaks.
Now we never hear
lost in a wordless fear.
Looking down like it's a game
while praising the Bard for doing the same.
Afraid to create something new
to take a false word and make it true.

I was sitting down alone
as the winter gleamed
a couple came to ask me
can we sit beside you?
Nothing between us was said
and so sit down they did.

Are you ready for some Christmas cheer?
I hear them sing to me
And normally I would
but this year was going differently.
I have no time for Christmas cheer
there’s far too much to fear.

What about your wish
for I’m sure it’s very real.
A gift annually delivered  
to all whom you choose.
From each other we received
five golden rings.

I’m afraid my hands are bare
I have no gifts to give.
and I can’t believe in dreams
when there’s now stars to see.

Don’t you believe in miracles
in this time of year?
A chance to hope as it ends
for tomorrow to begin.

With a sigh I replied
that I didn’t yesterday
though now that I see
the sparks between you
now I too believe.

They were satisfied
and finally let me be
I was silent for a moment
then I began to cry
I began to cry at Christmas time.

You’re like a King without a Queen
Sleeping without a dream
Thinking your brave, but all you do is scream.
See if I care
Now isn’t that fair.

So pick your poison
And take a sip
It’ll be over, in a bit.
See if I care
Now isn’t that fair.

Searching for love without a lover
Dancing without a melody
Giving up before it beings.
See if I care
Now isn’t that fair.

Burning in water
Like a dove without wings
In a sky without stars.
See if I care
Now isn’t that fair.

Singing without a song
All you do is run in circles
Living without breathing.
See if I care
Now isn’t that fair.

See if I care
If once upon a time
All you do is leave
With the tears of the sun.
See if I care
Now isn’t that fair.

I met the devil the other day
you wouldn't believe
what he had to say.

Said I'm tired of always leaving
without a chance to believe
deceived by all my lying.

My fate is tied to my sin
death caused by a tree
to meet a fiery end.

Hey there Cinderella
watch your every step
for every path you take
is only made of glass.

Wake up Briar Rose
the fairies dance
and the dragons burn
while you slumber on.

Be careful Snow White
don't trust those who
bitterly believe
in only what they see.

Let it go Rapunzel
there's a world out there
once upon a discovery
a time to remember.

Don't hide Mulan
sleep is not worth the stay
better to fight to die
than left behind to cry.

Goodbye Arial
don't lose your song
while leaving your home
with your heart by your side.

They're looking for their daily bread
searching like they're the walking dead
just fighting for a chance to get ahead.

You want change, but you're afraid to part
with all the junk that seems like art
guess that comes when you trust your heart.

We never walk the streets at night
scared to death to do what's right
while proclaiming to proclaim a star so bright.

Trying to live life without a prize
maybe one day I won't be paralyzed
not to be famous, but perhaps to be wise.

I'm bleeding I'm bleeding
for the world to see
the price of my misery.
I'm crying I'm crying
and it feels so wrong
when all night long
you're looking for a place to belong.
I'm sleeping I'm sleeping
with a heart that breaks over time
so teach me a lesson give me a sign
within all the lies that you find.
I'm dying I'm dying
forget all your sins
let the ending finally begin
cause the beginning is always the end.

I run around in circles
with this empty bottle of poison
another another give me another
won't you tell me dear brother
what I have become?
I hear the calling of the song
sung by the sirens all day long
too dead to remember
a time yet to past.
So I begin to disappear
in a hollow grave of my fear
it all began on yesterday
and since that fateful day
all I can bare to say
is I run around in circles.

I wear a dress of crimson silk
past the meadow from which I see
a man and woman laughing happily
reaching out with my hands of thorns
for a time to love and a time to burn
ignorant of the lessons they are to learn
nothing left to lose, but hope
as he picks me up in a wish
for the girl and the chance of a kiss

I saw a lion yesterday
and in his jaw was a man
who lost himself in all he said
       If you're going to eat me sir
       please clean the jewels in your mouth
       remove the bugs caught in your fur.
        I would hate to die of disease
       so before you enjoy your feast
       cough up the lies of a thousand fleas.
       Lose your crown to my disgust
       for the inhuman laws you decree
       to enslave those who gave their trust.
Then the man spoke no more
nothing left, but a poor of red
like a lamb led through the gates of war.

Shall we walk together
past the days long forgotten.
Trust me when I say
life is better if you live brightly.
The light is shining deeply
and in case you don’t believe
look upon the stars
for the wish we all receive.
From the time we began our journey
till our paper hearts all crumbled
we would be alone together.
So if never see you
if I’m running late
look up to the sky
and there we will be together.

If I died that day
would you be a woman?
Left alone from the storm
away from heaven.
Won't you live the life
I was given instead of you?
Fate gambled us away
and I suppose I won
but I wonder my friend
who really lived past yesterday
cause while you dance among the stars
I cry at one level above hell.

Hello Love I'm breaking up with you
tired of all the little things you do
and I'm telling you now cause I'm feeling blue.
You might return, but I don't think so
can't believe what you choose to show
not that you say what I already know.
Forget you loved me
time moves on you'll soon see
that some love isn't meant to be.
Goodbye my inner demon so divine
hey Pauline I won't let you shine
I'm taking this broken reflection as my sign.

Love’s smiles hidden too long

Untold through Winter’s desire

Salvation not found through the Caster’s song

Terrifying look in into the Heart’s eternal fire.


Open my eyes to Fate’s decision

Ready to die by Tragedy’s vision


Lucky to see the glow of the Flower

Only alone for Time’s poor singing

Verses of wishes by Hopes that cower

Eternally chained by Romance’s deceiving.

I hate the clouds that obscure my mind
the unchanging storm in my heart,
one that knows nothing but pain.
So I often wonder why,
everyday I walk in the rain.

Why do I look for you
   when all I find is despair?
   Losing you destroys me,
   but find you restores me.
   So I suppose I'll keep on looking
   until I know longer need you.