yellow is the color of my love's hair
blue is the color of the sky
we'll grow wings
and past the stars fly
dropping bombs
of peace and prosperity
all of us panickers
will for once see in clarity
we'll stay up for the sunset
and wake up for the sunrise
we'll act like its a
fabby bday suprise
we'll overtake the world
and change it to one that's good
there won't be any violence
life will drop it's shadowy hood
love will be our governor
and hope will be the president
I can't wait to be
that country's resident.

peaceful
quiet
things you can only get
when sitting on your roof.
relaxing alone with the breeze
in my hair
stars fighting above me
with the city lights below
trying to be the brightest
horns honking on A street
people greeting
and cursing eachother
at 11 pm
dogs bark and howl
but my head still is calm
my thoughts are able
to find meaning and logic
now that I'm away
from children hiding in my closet
or stomping on my stairs
or mom popping in my room
and asking broken record questions
like 'how are you?'
and 'did you finish your homework?'
I just want to stay up on my roof
watching the stars fight forever.

I'm sitting here waiting
for a sign
to show itself
a message from a god
maybe a tip from my walls
or even smoke signals from buddha
cuz I'm so lost
no one can help
me find my way out
I'm so lost
because you're not by my side
because you aren't here
to show me the way
like you always have
and I miss it
cuz it gave me something
to live for
to hope for
to strive for
and to die for
now I'm just drifting along
trying to stay numb
because if I didn't
I know the tears would begin
but every time I see you in the halls
a lump in my throat starts
my stomach clenches painfully
my heart beats like a hummingbird's
and my legs nearly run me away
'cause I still love you.

open up your unused eyes
let your irises pierce the skies
tell me just one thing about you
in return I'll give you a fake truth
you keep saying I'm as perfect as can be
but all I know is it's you, not me
you tell me I'm pretty, and that I'm so hot
but when I look in the mirror, I know I'm not
but it sounds so sweet coming from your lips
words that make me want to keep my grip
there's a world our there that's waiting to take you
break you, shake you, lists of terrible things to do
labels you give yourself, about all the wrongs
but all I see is a gorgeous being who belongs
when I look at you, I see a dying angel
when you look at you, you see a heartless tangle
discord of hatred is all you see
but that's all I see around me
I'll stay around so you don't fall faster
I'll stay around for this ****** up ever after

I walk down the halls
and I hear you call her name
at first I'm angry
but then I just feel ashamed
cuz all I want
if for you to be happy
even if controlling
my love is so sapping

can you blame me?
I'm just a girl in love
a girl whose heart
was given a painful shove
when they boy I
wanted forever more
pointed his boat
towards a different shore

and yeah, the tears burnt
as they fell in my lap
since I lost you when
I thought I had you in my grasp
you said we
could just be friends
which made me sad
since I didn't want an end

can you blame me?
I'm just a girl in love
a girl whose heart
was given a painful shove
when the boy I
wanted forever more
pointed his boat
towards a different shore

I want to puke
and I want to run
but running from you
is like running from the sun
I can't get away
not from you
I can't get away
cuz I don't want to
a part of me
still has a crazy hope
even if it's as likely
as becoming the pope

can you blame me?
I'm just a girl in love
a girl whose heart
was given a painful shove
when the boy I
wanted forever more
pointed his boat
towards a different shore

can you blame me?

you hold me close
hugging me so tightly
sun's showing down
it's shining so brightly
I feel like I'm
drowing in the happiness here
slowly dawning,
picture so clear.

you try so hard to hold me close,
and I don't have the drive
you're off running 500 miles an hour
and I'm not even running 5

but I can't say goodbye
cuz that would break your heart
I can't hurt people like you,
so sweet from the start
and I know the minute
I turn to go
you'll silently die
never gonna show
all the pain
boiling inside you
sadness crawling
trying to find a way out
a voice to shout
but you're too sweet
you wouldn't dare
and that's why
I'm here not there
cuz all it'll do
is cause you pain
and put you in
a metaphoric rain
never to shine
above you again
never smile
to a friend
never to laugh
about the funny things

so even though
I don't love you
I'll stay cuz I
don't wanna hurt you
stupid reason, I know
but really it's so close
so close to love
an angel's breath away
so close, but too far
I can't, no way
but remember, my darling,
an angel's breath
is still close enough
for me to stay with

just wanna say I love you
and probably always will
and there's no possible way
to take away the thrill
being near you
makes me fly so high above
it makes me feel that crazy thing,
that crazy thing called love
so don't pull back
I know you feel it too
the connection that
pulls me close to you
I'm here waiting for
you to take the chance
to come and get me
and have a little romance

I am the little birdie
perched upon a branch
waiting for the right
moment to swoop in
because I want to be
an important part
of your life
so build a little
birdhouse inside
of your heart
so I can fly in
and live within
your love

I still see
the sparkle in
your eyes
when you look
at me like I'm
a sunrise
so beautiful,
and wonderful
I don't understand
why you ever
walked away
why you still
won't say
that you love me.
everything you do
says that you
still want me so bad.
you still tickle me,
still hug me at every chance,
try to say something
with every glance,
you still try to show me
the world.
you still try to protect me
like a little girl.
you still try to be my knight
in shining armor
but I don't need a savior
I just need you.
so stop tryin' to be jesus
stop givin' reasons
why we can't be.
you run around with all of them
but I can tell they don't make
you happy
you can't talk to them
you can't tell them when you're
day is bad
or what's on your mind
but you're always tellin' me.
and they notice, I promise
they see the way you look at me
the thing they know is supposed to be
so they leave you, and you don't care
you just come runnin' back to me
cuz I'm still there, standing on my doorstep
waiting for you still
knowin', so deep down,
that you never will
but I just keep waiting
for the day that won't come
I keep waiting
hoping for my rising sun
but you leave me in total darkness
waiting for the first light
waiting for the first bite
of love that lasts forever
caring you can't sever
no matter how hard you try
you can't hide what's inside
especially from me
so stop trying
when are you gonna
get your head out
of your ****
and realize I still love you
and always will?
and when are you gonna
realize you feel the same

you don't seem to get
just how important you are.
or why you hold that spot
in my soul.
it's cuz you were there
and made me feel
like I was special
when no one else did
and made me find out
I can actually smile
and not always have
to cry
your shoulder was always
there when I needed it,
your arms were always
open to me,
your lips were always
close to mine, wanting
to kiss me.
but now, you're not him
at all.
you're an ******* who
doesn't care about anyone
who doesn't love,
and the worst part is
you don't even notice
you've changed.
I still love you so,
but you won't even
look in my direction,
won't even do anything
but you can find the time
to insult me, to complain,
to tell me when I'm doing
something wrong.
I know you're still there somewhere,
I just don't know where.
and I don't know if I have the courage
or the strength to try and dig him out.

tell me all about your day
and what's gonna wrong
tell me if you're gonna
write another song
but most of all I wanna
hear you say my name.

magical and beautiful
all in two syllables
it makes me feel surreal

say it the way you used to.
like it's the only thing you want to do.
say my name like it's
the most gorgeous thing
say it like you wanna sing
say it like you're gonna die
if you don't
say it like you'll never
stop, promise you won't
I just want you to say my name
the way you used to.

magical and beautiful
all in two syllables
it makes me feel surreal

you make me feel surreal.

magical and beautiful
all in two syllables
it makes me feel surreal

like there's nothing else
to listen to
to have a heart beat to
to never want to stop
you make me happy
when you say my name
when you don't treat this
like a game
just say my name

your shoulder blades
look like wings
the way they fold,
flit and flutter
when you move.
crushing together
when you're upset
or angry,
moving farther apart
when you're calm.
but the only
time my angel flies
is in his dreams.
when he finally,
completely,
unfurls and
takes flight.
reality locks him in,
holding his wings
down tight with their
invisible locks
and chains.
he only sheds them
in sleep,
in the world beyond.
I lightly trace them,
going over them gently
as I lay beside
your dreaming form.
in the day
he looks so nervous
furling, half unfurling,
all day, looking every
which way in case of
attack.
but fly,
my pretty bird,
my beautiful angel,
show me what it
looks like to fly.
show me what it looks
like to not be afraid.
fearless.

you listen
to me,
but you
don't hear
the silent
words that
flow and fit
between the
ones that
are voiced.

you look
at me,
but you
don't see
the masked
emotions
underneath.

you watch me,
you're around
me, yet you
notice nothing.
everything's just
peachy.

you don't
understand
when I get
upset where
those emotions
came from
because you
don't pay
attention.

I wish you did.

play me a note
write me a song
let's watch the trains
as they move along
tell me the things
that you want to do
and I'll go out
to do them with you

I see the stars in your eyes
and the moon on your lips
as you laugh and sparkle
touching my finger tips
run in the meadows
and swim in the air
your skin so soft,
your crazy coarse hair.

the notes on the wind
as they shimmer and shine
I look at you face glowing
knowing you're mine
and I dance and I laugh
with you in the meadows
we chase each other
flying like sparrows

I see the stars in your eyes
and the moon on your lips
as you laugh and sparkle
touching my finger tips
run in the meadows
and swim in the air
your skin so soft,
your crazy coarse hair.

tell me your dreams
all about your sleep stories
as we lay awake
in the bed at the morning
the birds in the trees
are all snuggled up tight
as we entwine closer, closer tonight

if I told you that I loved you
would you run away with me?
do you think that I'm a liar
when I say you're my cup of tea?
it's a complicated world out there
but it's so easy right here
don't be scared
I know a safe place my dear
your arms that hold me so tight
your lips that whisper lullabies
your fingers that trace my spine
you make me happy and quiet my cries
so don't run away without me
don't take a boat or plane
the world scares me
and it's about to rain
so let's stay here, inside
while you sing your lullabies
and I'll join you in the chorus today
because it's raining and pouring
your old man is snoring
so let's sit here and sing our song
promise you it won't be long
but I hope it doesn't stop raining soon
because I want to sit here with you
because I want to say I love you

give me a hug
for the road ahead
give me a smile
so I remember again
show me the way
down the winding road
towards home
haven't seen it in
so many years
just the thought
brings up my tears
not that they
are worth anything
and there's not
much to bring back
the empty bed
screams your departure
and the cobwebs
whisper I'm a martyr
can't help but wonder
if you're okay out there
wherever there is
hope you know I care
and that I forgive you
for all the bad times
'cause there were good times
to make up for mine
and all the mistakes
that swirled around us
held no bearing,
didn't make us fuss
but I miss you
in this cold empty place
doesn't feel like home
there's no trace of you
give me a hug
for the road ahead
give me a smile
so I remember again
show me the way
down the winding road
towards home

you found me shattered on the floor
glued me together,swum me back to shore
don't think you know that, do you?
I'm good at hiding things from view
but someday when we're old and gray
I'll tell you, because then I'll know how to say
I love you
right now the words get stuck in my throat
like there's wool from an old winter coat
just can't seem to say the words to you
and I hope you feel the same way I do
I just..I just can't tell
it's like a magic spell
over me
holding in my feelings
hope you understand from my eyes
from my sweet and sad lullabies
the words I cannot say

but someday when we're old and gray
I'll tell you I love you
the spell will be gone
I will move on and tell you
the words I've known for years
the ones held back by tears
the words I cannot say

one day you'll be remembering my name
one day you'll be thinking of me again
some day you'll be standing on the pier
and you'll say to the wind oh my dear
where have you gone where have you gone

oh dear soldier boy
when will you come home
play with a toy
little soldier boy
you've forgotten haven't you?

put down your gun
learn how to laugh
forget about war
the fields are far away
and all that's left to say
is run with me soldier boy

have you forgotten your mother's face?
have you forgotten how to smile?
have you not learned how to love
or sigh to the sky far up above

put down your bayonet
forget about all the blood
lay here in the grass
not in the mud
hear the pretty singing
hear church bells a'ringing
don't forget me soldier boy

and promise to come traipsing
back over the hills
to your mother dear

o, little soldier boy
have you forgotten how to dream?
how to laugh and smile?
dont forget me little soldier boy
I'll be waiting on this hill always

don't forget me soldier boy

I'm out chasing things
that have lost meaning
I'm out chasing things
that are using old words
they're acting like they're original
but they've been stolen
it's like the future
that's been written
five million times
five million times again
and I'm feeling like
maybe it's never existed
but hey, gotta die trying
'cause otherwise I'll die wishing
that I had kept moving
for something other than myself
the world's full of sin
but it can be worth it
so worth it if we forget
if you can forget

I am skin and bones, bones and skin
barely held together from within
all the hopes that held my dreams
didn’t really know what to be
but skin and bones, bones and skin
now I’m floating out in space
didn’t leave a bread crumb, not a trace
don’t follow me into the darkness
I’m hopin’ you will see the light

wraith-like, an apparition of humanity
a daring definition of me
I’m not really here, not really standing in front of you
one sneeze and I’ll blow away
‘cause I’m just skin and bones
you know it, bones and skin
so thin you can see right through me

cradled by the world, in a tiny little house
balled up in my covers, quiet as a mouse
you walk in and call my name
I hear it, I breath in an exclamation
it’s all the same, it’s all the same I fear
don’t call me baby, don’t call me dear
I’m just skin and bones, did’nt you hear?
standing in the darkness, I know it’s true
that light was never meant to be, not me and you
can’t you hear the crying of all the bells?
can’t you hear the lighting of torches and yells?

I am skin and bones, bones and skin
hold together, don’t let me in
no dreams ‘cause hopes are ignited by flame
it’s a curse, don’t call my name
I didn’t really know what to be out there
a part of me told me not to care
for I was meant to be skin and bones

wreck the halls
destroy and run
remember jumping on beds
is so much fun
chuck some paintings
throw some food
then kiss me because
it feels so good
the night brings
back everything
don't answer if
the phone rings
let's run this town
into the ground
let's show them
exactly what we found
we got fire and chaos
on our side
just burn it down
tonight.

hold me
stop being
afraid of me
I’m not the enemy
I’m just here

stop the running
im not chasing
so tired
come lay with me

the world keeps turning
your head keeps spinning
stop listening
and just sleep

I’ll put my knife away
if you put down your gun
I’m just laying on the ground
till the rising sun

I am scared
of what I know
but that’s supposed to be
what I love

I want you
the way you are
the things you do
seem so real

don’t run from meI
’m not the enemy
I am the girl who’s always
waited.
I am the soul
the mist in your dreamsI
have awakened
come with me
to the end of the world.

we’ll fly away
with wings of cloud
and dreams of May
I’m waiting on
this cliff so high
hoping you’ll come
don’t say goodbye

it’s a hello moment
the continuing song
over the mountains
through the waves that crash on
through the dreams.

there's a girl who stands
around the corner
protecting it like
it was her border
I walk by her every
time that I'm leaving
but everytime I wish
to be loudly singing

'hey Rosie girl,
Rosie Posie girl,
come run away with me
stop protecting your corner
and we'll go be free!'

I don't know her
but I love her all the same
the ******* the corner
with the pretty flower name
oh Rosie girl, sweet Rosie girl,
come run away with me
stop protecting your corner
and we'll go be free

then one day she was gone
taken by the law
away from her corner
without sound or brawl
they took my Rosie girl
locked her up and ate the key
and I shouted to the sky
'hey Rosie girl, my Rosie girl,
come run away with me
stop protecting your corner
and we'll go be free!'

then one day a grave marker
showed up on th street
to show that Rosie girl
had finally gotten beat
I cried about the Rosie girl
that girl from the corner
who protected it like
a sentry at the border
the mane of red and
those eyes so green
callin' out words
that sounded mean
but Rosie girl, my Rosie girl,
was the sweetest flower in the snow
too bad the government
decided she just had to go

I don't know her
but I love her all the same
the ******* the corner
with the flower name
oh Rosie girl, sweet Rosie girl,
come run away with me
stop protecting your corner
and we'll go be free

so Rosie's now an angel
I know it like a fool
with her wings of light
and beauty to make you drool
she's the sentry of the corner,
of the border that's now spent
but everybody knows the story
of the girl who came and went

I didn't know her
but I loved her all the same
the ******* the corner
who had that flower name
oh Rosie girl, sweet Rosie girl,
I wish you had run with me
forced to leave your corner
and now you're gone and free

hold on to the music
to the sound my mouth
is making now
hold on to the wind
it'll blow you south
it'll blow you everywhere
but the one place
I hope it blows you
is here to me
I made a mistake
my bad, I guess
wish I could take
it back with a word
or maybe a few
dozens of hundreds
but no matter how
many novels I orate
you will probably
never be back with me
the winds carry over
the sea and away from me
and though that
brings about tears
it's the way of the world
it's like the sound
of a heart beat
can't change the melody
no matter how many times
you swear to the skies
my heart is breaking
just from sheer will
from the ideas that fall
through my cluttered skull
and I know it's about
to explode onto the sidewalk
but if that's the way it goes
if that's the way the wind blows
I guess I'll be sitting here
a long time
a long wasted time.

someday I will find you
we will see each other
you were not my love
but the cliche of that word
shows it is as empty
as a fish bowl,
and you deserve better

someday you will find me
you will search
for there is something unfinished
about what we did.
never lovers
but not just friends
you feel it as I do

someday we will find the other
two halves of an anomaly
unknown in content
but necessary somehow
I feel a piece of myself
where you are now
it hid away in your travel case
and latched itself to you
sometimes, I wake up
in the middle of the night
and feel as if a piece of you
is here with me too

beatin on the radiator
goin up the elevator
you runnin' through my head
racin' through my mind
driving me crazy
hope you're having a good time
end of the night i'm banging on your door
beggin' you for more, please
lock the door, please
your body suffocates me
more than the cigarette, baby
holds me alive
no compromise
now or never
stupid endeavor
but so ******* worth it I could scream
just like you scream my name
animalistic
never simplistic
and that's just how you like it

I hear the wind
like you hear the trees
I see the birds
you see the bees
a double rainbow
colors the stars
playing on swings
takes you to mars
the poor feed the rich
the rich eat aplenty
it's really just metal and paper
which is funny
being around you
makes me feel free
as long as I'm loving,
my baby you'll be