I've always liked the idea
of waking up on your skin
early in the morning
Sheets wrinkled from our deep sleep
The sun barely beaming
through the cracks in my blinds
Your fingertips tickling my spine
Such a beautiful sight
Two kids, so innocent, so young
Their hearts start to fall in sync
Only thing to be heard was their breathing
and his sleep

I can write you pretty words
But can I fill the void she could leave
Can I stitch it up with satin lace and fill you full of rain
Can I kiss the scars
The marks
Left on your heart from a love so forbidden
And if a love lost is a lesson learned then she could be your teacher
Your mind is scattered and your heart is lost at sea
But do you still think of me
When you're ready to be home
When you're ready to be set free
Each wave pushing you further and further
Will it be me

The closer we get the more I forget his voice
I forget his touch on my heart
The same touch that split it in two
The closer we get the more you run my mind
Like 9 to 5
I try to keep up but your love is still hazy
Your love is still hers
The girl with the hands made of fire
The girl with the reckless touch
The girl so addictive
The girl who runs your mind
Like 9 to 5
But you can't keep up

I could write you symphonies dripping in roses
but it still wouldn't compare
to the way she says your name
or the soft touch of hope she leaves on your heart
I could paint you sunsets with my fingertips across your collarbones
but it still wouldn't compare
to the way she brushed your cheek with words so cruel
or how she kissed you goodbye
I could kiss sunflowers down your spine
plant a garden in your soul
but it still wouldn't compare
to
her

This time of night
Missing you aches more in the quiet
Filling the spaces with your old words
Meant for affection
But now haunt me like a ghost
Like when the lights are off and you're still all I see
You're still all I breathe
All the hearts have slowed down
But mine keeps racing
Your sweet I love you's and your laugh I adore
Close my eyes for a break
But even my dreams won't let me escape

They told you love was simple;
love was two people who care about each other.
They don't tell you that two lovers will become lawyers,
biting and smiling at the end of the war.

They told me they'd protect me from the world.
But where were they when the boy with brown eyes
and brunette hair swept me off my feet?
The boy with the gentle touch and sweet words.
He showed me oceans where the desert was
and where the flowers bloomed in the snow.
He made birds sing melodies in my dreams.
He sparked a flame in me
but soon wasn't cold anymore.
Suddenly, both of us human weapons,
ignited, left only with fragments
of our hearts when the war was over.

I was kissing your stars
But you were kissing the ground
Head over heals for somebody already found
I loved you once but that wasn't enough
One kiss on the cheek
And then you were gone

I miss you so much and you were never mine
I miss you so much but you're still breathing just fine
How could you go? I thought we were attached
You walked away without a scratch
So why am I still here holding my breath?
Never once a second thought
Just up and left like you weren't the one
You sleep just fine knowing you're not mine
Her hands around your neck, there you'd rather be instead
She loved like the moon but you'll see soon,
there's always a dark side
to the
**moon