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Tyler Jones Jun 2021
I turn in all the wrong directions
Locomotion
Tangled up in your ocean
Poisons and potions
Drowning deep in your bed head
Embedded
What was it that Marie Antoinette said?
I’m open to knowing
But what if it’s counterfeit?
Seal it with a kiss
Moving much further than I’d like to admit
Tyler Jones Jun 2021
I’m not alone but no ones home
Free to go but not to roam
No fresh air to breathe
No room to cope
Slow choke
Short rope
My fire scorches everything but the bones
Burnt clothes
I just pose and change the tone
Truths superimposed
Tyler Jones Jun 2021
Cigarettes and bubblegum blues
Got a lot to chew
This ones for you
Silver spoon
They say loves a game
Of give and take
An acquired taste
And I think of us everyday
Standing in the way
Hallucinating
Rabbits race
Something about the chase
Can’t get stuck cannot stay
Lighting fires just to feel safe
Yet the flames still get away
Can’t bleed it out down drain
The truth, the pain
I’m on fire but I’m free
Flying through the sun, left you my wings
And when I fall too deep I don’t need you to catch me
No matter how hard I’m crashing
Dancing through the dark and disease
Softens the sharp edges in my mind
Was such a climb to get to your height I just jumped off when you left me
But I’m better than what I give myself credit for
Even on the floor  
Don’t need to build walls to have boundaries
Break through every door that I meet
Run through everything until I hit the shore on my knees
Gasping to breathe
Salty winds and skies
Know it’ll burn off in time
No I won’t be looking so blind
And sometimes I think that I might die before my time without you riding by my side
Pressures on flying this high
Joy stick, tight grip, tulips, scripts flipped
Holes I dig to hide you in
So much love to give
Don’t know what to do with it
Tick tacking from tide to tide
Spinning in my dizzy mind
Melting memories like ice cream on Summer streets
Vampire in me needs to feed
Unfurling
Burning up the circus and turning with the sea
Tyler Jones May 2021
Romantic
Rose glasses
High fashion
New classic
Strobe flashing
Dope ******
Teeth gnash
In quicksand
It’s quick cash
Pure passive
Outlast them
Jurassic
Tyler Jones May 2021
I tried to tell you
I wasn’t pulling through
That the weight was getting too great
Always me and never you
If I’m in the way, why don’t you get out of my face?
While I’m stuck picking up the blood all over the place
Setting the stage while you close the cage
It’s never enough, it’s just hurry up and wait
Doesn’t have to be so tough that it twists up both our faces
We both know that this isn’t just a phase
Stuck on the corner, stuck on the staircase
We both know there’s no growth if we’re both always looking away
Gotta have the sun if we don’t want to stray
It’s only begun so put your best cards away
The webs we’ve spun are stitching up the space between us
Static on the phone, keeps pulling us  away
Patterns unfold, I’ll never let it go to waste
Tyler Jones May 2021
Devil on my back, sick
Have a heart attack, drip
Handle on the strap, flip
Know that this won’t last, it’s
Updating the patch, it’s
Never gonna be like that
So don’t go acting tragic
You got what you could grab
Supped up your stash
Put it in the past
Castles made of glass
Candy coated counterfeit
If I’m the horse I’ll bite my bit
Waiting here I tap my frozen fingertips
Silver screen bleeds
A nicotine sheen leaves us kisses on our hips
Get a grip
Jeans are stained
Pearly gates  
Marble games
Pushing pain
Sifting sand
Digging up graves
Your cold kiss
Is my true bliss
And I’ve got no one to blame
Patterns around
Pick a pretty petal now
Written in the clouds
Wow I can hear you now
Saying “let it out, loud and proud”
“Don’t look down now boy, it’s all around”
Tyler Jones May 2021
Remember that place?
Neverland of the New Age
Hidden in the garden of the strange
Full of wonder and grace
How the stars fall right where they belong
And the roses bloom
Twisted truths
From thickets of thorns and pain
How the shadows start to glow just when you look away...
...Now I see your face
In all the spaces between
In the silence and in my dreams
For a moment I feel free but it’s just a tease
With you I’m anything
Rearrange or replace me
Ill fill in the blanks
Of all the lines on our faces When it’s all long gone to ruin and waste
I can see it now
All around
Coming down on us
Lifting us up
To see up above
The pieces of the puzzle
Secrets we keep leak half asleep
Heartbeats bleed need
Bandaids and muzzles
War wounds weep
Sutured silver lines
You’re my goldmine
You shine divine
I was stuck in the static
Lost in the dream
Stuck in between
The unheard and the unseen
Seems so surreal
The way the waves weave us together like birds of a feather
Diving into the scattered sun
Drowning out
The doubt surrounding us
Smoke and mirrors
Pictures getting clearer
Crowns left shattered on the ground
And the dead are dancing upside down
Soulless and proud
Picking up the place
Picking up the pace
Picking it up before we put it back in it’s place
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