How can it be that when
I listen to the 4 boys
from Chicago, all my
problems float away?
Just laying there doll-like
with the music "pumping through my
bedroom speakers" I love how
I sing along to the songs.
I love how Patrick's voice
puts me to sleep
and when I get "brain cramps"
and can't write at all, all I
need to do is put in a cd
and within a few weeks
I can write, of course
it's gonna be about
the 4 boys for a while.
GOOD NIGHTS & SWEET DREAMS

I'm running away to a place,
that is my secret place,
where I figure everything out
in this messed up head of mine,
but how can I get there (with no way there?),
when can I go (what time, day?),
I need to go soon before I explode (into a million pieces).
I need to get a way from this drama
high school I'm in, I need time
to figure out what I'm doing (right now)
because right now I'm doing everything in a *trance.

where is my secret place
where I go to think things out?
right now it's no where
because my head is so messed up now.
I can't find my secret place;
wait, I think I just found it.

life can be fun.
life can be boring,
but life, like the weather,
can be unpredictable.

RAIN** IS
pain in Maine for
fame of
SHAME!

Nothing to fear,
Evenings so great,
When all the lights go out---

Yesterday just a small town girl & in
One moment a big city girl;
Running not walking;
K**eep on dreaming.

Sometimes in life
Times get tough, but that doesn't mean Don't Stop Trying.
All you got is on the line--This is the time; You got
Nothing or Everything to lose.
Don't give up, keep on pushing.
In 5 years when you look back, will you be that person in the mirror, like
Nothing you image, or the same person staring back at you?
Go for it, it's all or nothing. There's a Standing

Ovation for you. You will come a
Very long ways,
And you will feel GREAT.
To Bob and Jillian, you guys are amazing.
Incredible is just one of the many words to say about you.
Only time can tell how things turn out.
N**one-the-less, Good Luck to all and Keep it up!

Childhood. Remember the days when what you
Had was everything you ever needed? All
I** ever wanted to do was to play in the dirt.
Loved hanging with my friends,
Down by the river--the ones who knew me as I was & didn't care
How poor or rich I was--Childhood isn't about the money.
Oh, how I wish to go back to those times...
Oh, but how I love being where I am now
Down by the sea, instead of the river.

To tell the truth will
Really hurt me, but it is worth it for you to
Understand where I am coming from. So
To say I love you is not an understatement, never
Has been. I really did

Love you even if you never loved me back
I** still got all the wonderful memories.
Everyday I am happy with the chooses I made, the people I
See, and the friends I made.

So telling the truth may hurt, but so does
Everyday of trying and pretending that it didn't happen.
Caring and loving someone for a long time and then have it be over
Really can hurt and
Each day I thank god
That I am Right Where I Belong!
Speak the truth and good things will come.

As the rain falls on my head
Below the bridge, I think
Back to the days when
You and I were so young and
So in love and happy.

So now, older, wiser, and the days long gone, I just have
Our memories and our song.
Now I'm out on my own once again--
G**one looking for that someone to complete Abby's Song.

Come now
Only you and I can figure this out.
Under the cork tree,
Never-the-less we're done.
The good times have come and gone,
In the middle of the
Night I scream, "What am I
Gonna do!" ---Friends we shall be.

Together doing stuff that two friends do,
Having fun, hanging, or seeing horror movies.
Everyday is a new

Day-- a new chance to meet a new guy
And someday I will find that special guy.
Young love will find me
S**omeday! I hope. <3

Run for comfort,
In the rain or snow
Come here, come
Home. Show the world
All you can do. So let's stop
Running because we
Don't know what we're running from.

Come home
And we will be at peace.
Show us peace and show
The world a lot of
Love and maybe
E**ternity won't be far along.

Calling all lovers,
Attendtion; Please read this. Time is
Really lost. The room is spinning,
Don't forget there are other fish in the sea, just jump
In and dive for them. They should be there with
Open arms, waiting.
Love can be a magically thing--
On with the show already. Ladies & Gentlemen I welcome you,
Good Charlotte, playing their new album, "Cardiology." Forever
Y**oung in our hearts. Keep on believing.

Forever feels this way and
Everyday I wake up, I wouldn't change a thing.
Each day I spend with you is worth a million dollars.
Love is so powerful and is worth
So much more than money.

Love is what should make the world go around.
I** love you more and more each day.
Kind words go a long way in life and
Each day I get with you I

Take to heart and wouldn't trade it for the world.
On my way to work, I think about you,
Down by the river, I think about you, and
As I lay trying to fall asleep, I think about
You. I love you so much! You're amazing!

Down with the world.
Only the strong minds will survive.
No one can pay their way out of
This one. Forget your money you don't need it where you're going.

Just love, peace, music, and memories
Underneath the cork tree, playing. So
Many memories, so many
P**eople--just gonna live my life and enjoy it.

Memories come and go and
Everyday my love for you grows
May our love stay strong through thick and thin.
On to today; a new day with new
Riches; friends, people, love, music.
In every way enjoy life,
Enjoy this world and the people who
S**urround you, they are worth more than money.

Now is the moment in time to enjoy life
And this love.
May it last forever
And be great.
So here and now we lay next
To each other, if only
E**veryday can be like this.

Round,
Over, and underneath the
Cork tree ----
Keep quiet.

Burn
Underneath the cork tree. Are you
Ready to fight
In the middle of the night?
Everyday I
Deal with being buried

Alive by all the money I owe. I just
Live each day for what
It's worth and take it with a grain of salt.
Very much so and with
E**verything else going on it's very tiring, but that's life!

Enjoy this wild and crazy roller coaster ride.
Just Enjoy Life!
Love. Peace. Music.

Music is Life! It really is!
Music is the one topic you can talk to
anyone and no one gets upset#.
Music is universal.
Everyone understands music!
Music makes the world go around,
love is second and money is third!
They help the world spin.



#-I use that word very loosely,
mostly meaning *******.

For all the good things there are bad ones too.
My life is bad luck, but than good
Luck comes, f.m.l.

Drama why do you like to follow me? I try, I
Really do try to stay away, but you
Always seem to find your way back to
Me. But from all those times I now know how to ignore you
As though you never came back and bugged me. So take that!

All my life I wanted that special someone. Someone who *loves me
Very  much, for who I am. I am so glad I found that person. He's there for me
Everyday and
Night. If we don't see each other, it's on the phone or text.
Gone for a week or two to my sister's doesn't
Even change a thing we still talk. That's our biggest strength.
Depends on the day, but we always try to talk it out. <3

So I would like to say, I found my *soul-mate,
Even though we are "prefect" (whatever that means) for each other and we love each other
Very much, my soul-mate can still be out there.
Everyday you can continue to search, but here and
Now, in reality, will you ever find your soul-mate? When you
Find someone special and you know their not your soul-mate
Of course you have to make the best of it because you may
Lose it and never find another one again or your soul-mate.
Don't give up is what I'm saying, but don't get caught up in finding someone you may never find.

I'm proud to be Irish.
Yes, I know, I know.
But I love Irish History
love all kinds of history,
but Irish history is more interesting I think.
I love learning about Ireland. I love my last name -- McNally!
I love being born on St. Patrick's Day!
maybe that's why I love history ---
Loving being Irish started it all...

True love. What is true love?**
Is it being high school sweet hearts?
Or is it always being there for one another?
Whatever it is I would love to say I found it. But people (parents, my mom more) always tell us (my boyfriend & I, me mostly) that it's not true love, that we're too young and that I don't have much experience in dating. So what if this is my 2nd boyfriend---you know what, we're making it work, 2 1/2 almost 3 years, yeah something's working! Don't tell me to give up on him! you don't tell me to give up on my dreams, but yet when you imply to give up on him, you're pretty much are implying to give up on my dream as well. So true love is a dream; dream of a good future with the person you love so much. The one you hate saying good-bye to, the one that will say anything to make you feel better when you're down, and the one that will tell you the vows may say "til death do us part," but death can not even tear you a part! True love is when you find the right other half and when you know what they're thinking without saying anything. It doesn't matter how many boyfriends/girlfriends you had in the past, it doesn't matter how old you are. True love can come at any moment in life and if you're not careful it will disappear as fast as it came.

Time, time, what is time, really? What does
It mean? How does one measure time, really? Time is the
Moments that makes everyday so special...the
E**veryday moments, the little things. that's what time is!

Tomorrow's another day.
How long has it been since we've talked last?
It's been so busy, I've been busy.
Sitting here now, I realize how much time really means.

In one minute I'm with you and the next I'm
Sitting at home checking my e-mails.

Why does time have to be so fast or so sloooow?
And why do people always take time from me?
Really they don't, but it sure feels like they do.

Dear Alice,
I'm *writing this letter to say, please help us. We grow mad each day. Please come back, life is not the same without you.
Please bring baby ravens with you. People forgot how to write here in Underland, it's quite sad, really. I'll be waiting at my desk drinking tea with Hare and Doormouse. Please don't tell me you're not coming... we sent White Rabbit to get you. It took him a lot of time---time, what is time?
.......
Just like a raven we want to live and be free again. Boy, the *people down here are crazy. But all the best people are. One of my dear friends told me that. :) I hope to see you soon, Alice. ****** Big Head is locked away!
Love, Hatter

P.S. Send some cake.

My dear friend, Patrick
Please understand what I say
About my dear love, Ashlee
Who I’d married one day

She is so lovely and kind
Her eyes are so beautiful, they shine in the moon light
And the best part is, she is so fine
I love her so, she is such a delight

My love for her
Is like a hundred thousands flowers
Which smells so pretty, like her wrapped in fur
This might sound funny, but she holds the power

**Love can be so cruel
So you just can’t be a fool!

My dear friend, Mercutio
Please understand what I say
About my dear love, Juliet, through and through
Who I’d married one day

She is so lovely and kind
Her eyes are so beautiful, they shine in the moon light
And the best part is, she is so fine
I love her so, she is such a delight

My love for her
Is like a hundred thousands flowers
Which smells so pretty, like her wrapped in fur
This might sound funny, but she holds the power

**Love can be so cruel
So you just can’t be a fool!

"Life is just like the hatter. The writing desk is  a mad place  but it helps  to love," says Alice.
Write about  baby ravens. Boy do people  run when they see a raven. Just live you're life free of  everything. I  will tell you  to feel if  you grow but don't grow  over time.

Now
In the middle of the night,
Going--running--
Help me
This
M..m...m....Monster is chasing me. It's
About to eat me.
Running to be free, but running is not
Enough...but wait, it's just a nightmare.

"Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?"
~Later, towards the end~
Alice asks, "Hatter, why is a raven like a writing desk?"
Mad Hatter: "I haven't the slightest idea."
Then Alice disappears back home.*
So why is a raven like a writing desk?
Ravens symbolizes death and to me Writing symbolizes
freedom.
But when you think about it ravens fly-- come and go as they please. Writers feel like that when they write at a writing desk--
come and go as they please.
So maybe there's the answer...
Ravens are free, and a writing desk is a place to be free.
But maybe a raven is also like a writing desk because most good poems deal with some type of grief, or joy...Every good poet deals with issues with life and the grief that comes with death. Every great writer has troubles-- look at; Edger Allen Poe, Dylan Thomas, and Emily Dickerson, just to name a few. Edger often wrote of ravens and drank, Dylan also drank, and Emily was afraid to go outside. We all have troubles, but only a certain amount of people can write about them in poetry and make the words be so beautiful. So maybe in the movie there was no answer, but it all seems to random to have no answer. So here's my answer: Freedom and Troubles, Ravens have/deal with both as well as a writer at a writing desk.
Do you know why a raven is like a writing desk?

To the
Hatter
Everyone is

Mad
As can be. Does that make him
Dangerous? No, Just a

Hatter, who is crazy as can be.
And, when that day comes he shall futterwacken...vigorously.
Time makes us more insane,
Time makes us remember
Everything from our past.
Remember and learn; Underland can be wonderful again.

"There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder,
mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You must be mad
as a hatter. [picks up his hat] Which likely I am."
~The Mad Hatter

Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad?
[Alice checks Hatter's temperature]
Alice: *I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a
secret. All the *best people are.

Is this a dream
Or a nightmare?
it doesn't feel real, anymore.
There's too much PAIN and CONFUSING
in this real life then they promised me
when I was younger........
They told me I would have a fairy tale ending but
I don't see no fairy tale here...
They lied. I wish I had someone to tell me
not to grow up, like I do to the younger kids I meet.
Oh, how I would take to being 8 again
and not caring where or when my next meal
will be or health care.
Oh the joys of childhood
THAT I MISS.
>>Don't wish to grow up!<<

I write this because you have change my life
You came into my life just as I needed someone to talk to too
And now you are sick.
You are the greatest thing in my life and
No matter what I will remember you always!
As I write this I listen to you sleep and listen to your sisters
sleep and wonder around and eat.
If only you can come back and feel better, tomorrow.
As I write this, I am crying because I can't let go of you.
You're my baby and you help me though so much, you and your sisters.
I love you my dear Patrick!
You are more than my pet ferret, you are my friend!
No matter what happens you will always be with me.
And if you do go to that special place, Please tell Leroy I say "Hi" and how I miss him.
Until the day we part I am praying and hoping you will get better
So you don't have to leave me this soon.
I love you baby boy! I am so glad you came into my life.

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

People
Everywhere
Right now are
Fighting for the right to
Eat & survive.
Can we help
Them? We need too.

But we too are in a crisis,
Or is it just in our minds? Only
You can decide -- Go Help!

Running in the middle of the night,
Right through all the mud
And in the rain with all the pain; just to get to you,
Annie, you are the one I've been looking for.
Glory, glory, hallelujah, I found my one true love
Nothing will come between us, Annie, I will protect you. You are my
Girl and I will let nothing hurt you.
You, you are safe forever. I love you, Annie.

It's my life
and why do I have to go to college?
why can't I just be a self proclaim philosopher?
I just wanna live and watch the "days go by"

We only get one life to live
and then we go into the afterlife
and have to start a whole new different life
So lets live this life the way we want
and when we go into the afterlife we can all catch up with each other.

Because in the afterlife,
where this life is dead and gone
Our spirits will still be there and meet everyone from this life,
while in the next life we are creating a whole new different life

And then we will just repeat,
like a broken record
as the world comes crumbling down.

Let's just live in the moment and everything will be fine.

Jump
Into the sea, feel the
Move-
Ment
Yet

Standing still
Underneath the trees
Laying,
Lying, trying to hide those feelings
In the ground--- its
Very pretty today,
And we will
Never forget you Rev, our brother of MUSIC.

Tell me what to do
It’s all up to you
You’re in control
And I’m on a roll

Let's hold hands
Dance till our feet bleed
Can’t hold back the music
Just come with me
And we can get through anything

When you came around
I felt like I was invisible
You never noticed me
I just stood in the corner
Shedding my tears
On the inside
So you couldn’t see
Now I’m gonna stand up for myself
And you can’t push me around anymore

Sitting in the hallways
So alone, so cold
But then people come moving quickly
Like the people in Time Square
Or at a fair
But just as they came
They’re gone again
And I’m all alone again
Just me and the lockers