You look at me and all I feel is beautiful  
But Im always this way,
Is that why it's scary for you
I learned how to love who I am without you
Without that power to take it away
I felt my worth in your hands,
So quick to slip through like water
I watched them fill
And saw how easy it was to
wash me away
With every wrong word,
Or disagreement
The person I used to be loved you
And I can still feel her
but I won't let her through

Marlboro boy
You speak words of truth
And exhale fireworks with every breath
You light up worlds
And have pretty girls falling over
every sentence that spills out of you
You embody so much good
I just wish you could see it
It's a pleasure in your presence
but you still have
much to learn
This journey is yours
and my journey is mine
I just can't help but pray
our paths will cross
Between cigarette breaks,
In a new town, with a new job
in a place where you've finally
learned how to love

A day mid spring
The sounds outside were quiet
But the noise inside my head
Was overbearing
You pushed through the door
preaching words of love
and begging for second chances
My innocent eyes believed
the words you fed me
Taking a slow walk towards the door
Leaving nothing but
hope in your traces
You looked back and I felt it
but I couldn't stop you

Like a butterfly about to take flight,
You will move on
My love you will blossom
You will grow tall,
past the small stems
of the small people around you
They'll try to dim your light
Constantly tearing down
the thoughts that they
just can't understand
But they don't have that power
You're a Sunday morning
too bright to be trapped amongst
the minds around you
Don't hold back,
Please move on and watch
them stare in awe at the beauty
you'll create
A beauty they don't deserve to know

A gentle sigh,
All I can do when I think about you
I want to change your words
Turn you into what you were
The person who knew how to love
Trapped in my head,
I try not to think
How does it feel?
I ask myself over and over
I just want to run to you,
But you taught me its easier to run away.

Sending shivers
down my spine
like it was your job
All you knew
was in the contact  
how to love,
how to make
me fall for your
desolate words
So empty
saying so much without
ever saying anything at all
Speak to me,
talk to me in words.
Real words
Not the words you
carve into my body
With every touch.

An almost lover,
its time to say goodbye
the words have been said,
And the door has been closed
What could have been will
Consume me
But I can't let it in  
My darling,
why couldn't it be you
sometimes I think we're the same
The games excite us,
but that's not
enough anymore
This life is no game,
It's too precious to be wasted away
With these wasted words of hope
that you carry between your lips