Like a dream that fades with dawn
we rise up and it seems that something goes wrong
we lose sight and our dreams are gone

We seem to let go so fast
we forget where we're goin' and swerve right off the tracks
I'm tired of tryin' on masks

I think I know were I'm goin'
Know my way up the river I'm rowin
gotta always keep rowin' cuz' the river keeps flowin'

Ive had to make a choice like this before
in fact we all have at one time or another
leave your troubles be come sit and calm down with me

Come and try to come down from cloud 9
come and sit right here by my side
and we'll discover that life's exactly how we want it to be

There’s more to everything I think,

                                                                              Especially when it comes to you,

                                                                 Sometimes you make me feel so loved,

                                                        And others you didn’t know you’d hurt me.

                                                     But now that it’s all over does it matter at all?

                     When I look back I really

                                                                                     Think you loved me all along.

I can hear my loved ones screams
Reminents on memories
caught in the cobwebs of my dreams
I can't see them
I can't help them
And I'm stuck in the blackness of the dream
I try to open my eyes
And I struggle And to my surprise
I can  move
And I can breath
But I can't feel and I can't see
I hear them screamin'
screamin' my name
screamin' for my help
screamin' to my shame
And I'm trapped I'm all alone caught in the blackness on the dream
listen to them scream and scream and scream
And then  finally when I wake up
I am shaken that was ****** up
I am sweating under bedding cuz' I know whats comin' next
I've had enough

I'm not completely certain what went on inside my head,

But it sounded like a bad idea so this is what I said:

"Not right now, not today, I’m afraid afterwards what you'll do...”

What I said was no excuse, my words were true.

I can't believe after everything, after it all was said and done,

I couldn’t believe you’re not a predator,

God I hope I’m wrong.

Soon you'll be sitting on top of the world,

That’s what the fortune cookie said,

I went to his house with my hair uncurled,

Worried what he wanted was to get me in bed.

I am the butterfly, that once,

Floated just out of reach of you,

The hunter with the net.

You never once swung at me, hunter,

You stayed were you were, and waited,

For me to come to you

You turned your net away, sometimes,

And I'd flutter past your hands,

Then you’d hunt me again.

This is our little game we play,

So you hunt the right butterfly,

I want you hunting me.

The school years just beginning as the second quarter ends,

But I miss the days of summer when Id ride bikes with my friends,

What happened merely weeks ago seems like a couple months,

Though time is moving oh so fast,

I don’t find it hard to keep up.