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Ashley Rodden Jun 2014
Just when I had given up all hope
That true love existed...
You became the living proof that I needed.
You saved me in more ways than you may ever know. Thank you for loving me because I love you too. :)
Ashley Rodden Jun 2014
My love for you is blind
So how can I make you see it?
I'm only trying to bury the pain
Only trying to save you from it
I want to give you a safe place to hide
Maybe you could find it
If you looked deep enough in my eyes
There has to be something you can believe
Just let go of your defenses and
Come to your senses for me
What we have is so strong

I'll come to you if only in a dream
I'll rescue you like you saved me
We are damaged at best
Falling apart sometimes
Barely breathing with tightened chests
But in the pain I hope you find the healing
you need
All the lights are catching up to you now they are fleeting
And you can't put your insomnia to sleep
Because when you close your eyes all you see is
Someone you think you're never going to be

Let me bring you back
Let me make it right
If you crash and burn
At least we know you tried and
When you crawl the lessons learned
Will remind you how you survived
Silence is screaming in your face
Your past comes to haunt you in bad dreams
tonight
I know you wish to take back what you've done
But you can only change the person who you've become
And find a way to leave it alone

I know you're hurt and scarred
If only I could tame your mind and heart
I'm sure you thought it was going to be easier than this
I see your burdens
And they are too much for one man to carry
So just bury them inside of me
It's all so shallow and appealing
When you're over your head and drowning
In a sea of sarcastic faces and familiar places
Everything looks the same to you
It's confusingly amusing, bitter, and tainted
The picture in your mind that you've painted

I just want to take away all you have known
Everything you cannot have
And if you ever need some other love
I'll give you more than you can stand
You walk a thin line
Between what is and what could be but in the end
There's a crack in your crown
And it feels like your sand castle is crumbling down
Your head is filled with fairy tales
You've built yourself a pretty cage
Made of false expectations, illusions, and dreams
With all my strength I just want to bend your bars
                                                                ­                         And set you free....
Ashley Rodden Jun 2014
All I'm asking for now
Is that you need nothing more
And that you let nothing come between
Our fragile hearts

We walk together
Knowing where we've been
Knowing that mistakes will be mistaken again
But that's past tense and
It doesn't have to make sense

Because in the still of your hands
Anything can happen
With every kiss
Nothing is impossible

In the comfort of your arms
I find my safe haven
With every beat of my heart
My love speaks in silence and
You're all it's asking for

You do things to me that I can't explain
I see your picture
I smell your skin on the pillow
Lying next to me and
Whenever I'm not with you
I feel myself start to waste away

When you wrap your arms around my waist
I will breathe against your pains
Just exhale and let the past go away
Empty smile with a naked heart
Whoever I was just falls apart

When you're here inside of me
I want you to feel me until you're numb
And all your depth perception is gone
Touch me until the taste of love never leaves your lips
Pull me in, take me out, and I'll make you whole again

I'll lose myself just to find a place
Inside your mind
I'll change myself just to stand alone
In your eyes

Read the wave, ride your fears
In this ocean of love
We've been drowning in
I'll take you deeper until you find
What's hidden in every corner of my mind

Sever the sky, bury the lies
Forget the time
And leave your past behind
These feelings fall like a landslide
When both our dreams collide

Reach into my eyes
Until I feel you in my veins and
I'll put my lips on your scars of hurt and shame
Just give me your darkest nights and all your broken dreams
I will fill the empty space and burn the memories...
I can fix it if you show me where it hurts.
Ashley Rodden Jun 2014
Trying to find our way back to sanity again
Just take a deep breath and hold on tight
And I'll keep hanging by every word you say
Even if you don't want to speak it's okay
I'm perfectly content just listening to you breathe
With you is where I want to be
So, just try to look past all the shadows in your mind
Seek the truth in us and you will find
What it feels like to feel alive again
Just shake the calluses from your heart
I will chase your silhouette for the rest of my life
I just want to be with you for the rest of time
I'd rather not know where we'll be
Than be alone and convinced I know
The world keeps spinning round
Even though ours is usually upside down
I wouldn't change that for anything because
I've got nothing else to lose
When I found you I lost it all
Everything I've ever known before has let me down
But with you I just let go
I let you turn me inside out
And all I know is I'm not sure about anything
But I wouldn't have it any other way
All the spinning, turning, watching, burning
Walking, crawling, climbing, falling
Doesn't matter anymore
Because I found my life's meaning
Deep within your heart
For all we go through
I would never want to change you
As we break and bend
And wrestle with our doubts
Through the rising and falling apart
We have discovered who we are
I know you struggle with your thoughts
I just want to be the one to change your minds locks
And I will always try to read between the lines of
What you say and what you've said because
You are the strength that keeps me going
The hope that keeps me trusting
You light up my soul
You are my purpose, my reason to be
There's no way I can stand in your presence
And not be moved
You steal my heart and take my breath away
You're all I want
You're all I need
Baby, you're everything to me
Just let me inside even when it hurts
Don't hide the broken parts of you that I need to see
Just let me hold onto you above everything
My reality is in your eyes
And even though we maybe crashing into the unknown
With you beside me I feel at home
Talk is cheap
So I give you my word that I can keep
I love you the most
In every way I am yours and
I won't let go
I won't give you up no matter what
I'll take the weight of the world
Off you for a while
I'll be your peace
When insanity strikes your mind
I'll light up the dark
I'll hide you forever inside my heart
I'll make the world go away
If only for a little while
I love you B no matter what!
Ashley Rodden May 2014
All the things I want to say
They just don't always come out right
I trip on my words
Because you got my head spinning for sure
There's something about you
I can't quite figure out
Everything you do is beautiful
Everything you do is so ******* cool
I don't know why but, I can't take my eyes off of you
When I'm lost please come find me
And speak sweet words of love in my ear
Your voice is all I long to hear
You are the strength that keeps me marching up hill
The hope that keeps me trusting
My purpose to live
The light to my soul
How could I ever stand in your presence
And not be moved?
You calm the storms when I need rest
You steal my heart and take away my breath
You are all I want
You're all I need
You're everything to me

It was easier to be broken
It was much easier to hide
But looking at you now I have to catch my breath
Because I am still scared to death
I've let you inside
Under my skin
My world now,
Is the reality I see in your eyes
We are walking together a path unknown
We're lost but it feels like home
There's no one around but you and me
That's how I want it to always be
Together
Riding beside you
Off into the sunset
Chasing gold mines
Crossing the fine lines we once drew

I've spent so long in the storm
Been so overwhelmed by it's shapeless form
It was getting harder and harder to tread
With waves always crashing over my head
But when I saw you
I knew everything would be alright
Because you turned the dark into light
For you I will walk on water
And I will catch you
When you get lost in my eyes and fall
Barely surviving was becoming my purpose
Until you came along
Now I'd be so alone without you
And maybe you would be too
But just remember when it feels you have nothing left
My heart will always belong to you...
Ashley Rodden May 2014
We were suppose to take this slow
But we're dancing right across that line
Because you have your lips an inch away from mine
How long before they touch?
I guess we are both pyros who like playing with fire
Risking getting burnt
One kiss and I lost it
Didn't know what I was doing
So caught up in the moment
Once your lips touched mine
It was all over
I whisper,"baby do you really love me?"
How head over heels can a person be?
You know I'm worried about tomorrow and
The days and miles that are bound to come between
But we both knew this was going to be tough
So lets just make the most of every second we got
And pray what we have is enough
Lets just take it day by day
Bridge by bridge
Mile by mile
Tonight I got my hair down
Kissing your neck
You say, "baby you better stop that"
Do we take the fast lane or the back seat?
Better pick one
All self control is about to leave
No more keeping hands to ourselves
Welcome to the Jungle baby
We're walking on the wild side now
What a Perfect Crime
I stole your heart and you stole mine
I want to feel you in my blood
You're my outlaw
Double trouble's a lot more fun
You like to rock hard
I like to kiss soft
It's like dancing with the devil
In the cold November rain,
Knockin' on Heaven's Door,
All the while singing Sweet Child of Mine
Riding 95 sitting shotgun pretty in 1968 SS Nova chevy
Turning this town into our own Paradise City
Running wide open
Boy give me some more
Let go of them horses
Tonight lets rock like Guns N' Roses
Ashley Rodden May 2014
I think I'm sick of this
It's time I shake off this rust
I once had my heart set on nothing but us
Now I'm staring down myself
Counting up the years
My hands remain steady
But inside all your stares are killing me
Like I am transparent and right through me you can see
I know that everyone has there doubts and fears
Everyone wants what they think is fair
Just like I always wanted all I thought I needed from you
Why could you never see what I seen?
My feet remain steady but restless
To run away from you
Needing you to come chase after me
It's like we're moving but we go no where
And I know you've tried to rescue me
But how could you when I won't let anyone in?
All that remains now are traces of what was
And all that could have been
Please take all the tainted pieces of me
As they no longer fit
Just like your promises that were unkept
And drink them in until you're high
Chase them with a shot of left behinds
If you could have only seen in your nothing
You meant everything to me
And I just wanted to be all you would ever need
Happiness and peace of mind
Were never meant for me
So just take whatever you please
All the promises are empty
Like your last glass of whiskey
I only complicate your life
And you cause me only disappointment and strife
I hope I will always remain a sweet taste on your tongue
I hope you never forget those
Hot sweat and blurry eyed nights of fun
My world is just too black and white
Not like your's so colorful with your dreams about life
We must of been caught off guard somehow
So I won't try to philosophize now
Just take a deep breath and a good look around
How I feel has always been real
You are my sweetest sin
And I've felt this weakness coming on as
I tried to read between the lines
Of ******* on the mirror in your mind
I tried to see what lied behind your weary eyes
Went to war with your demons inside
Your voice will always be
The soundtrack playing in my sweetest dreams at night
You are unlike any other
Your eyes are the brightest of all the colors
And I never want to be with another
But I can no longer repent
In the dark on my knees
The candle light has all been spent
The holy water has turned to a poison wine
And it's time I leave what once was my love's sanctuary behind...
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