Sunlight danced when it saw you
The trees rustled their voices
The grass blew north towards you
And on that clearing hillside
I heard the wild flowers
They called to you
Thinking you were one of them
And I
Frozen in your eyes
Could not stop weeping
For you saw me

I can hear you
I hear your smiles your eyes are digging into my mind
And pulling apart every vein
Draining the blood out of my frown
And you drown me in your laughter
I can't stand to hear the banter Give me your pocket knife
And my ears will disappear along with the voice of your happiness
Because I'm all I've got
And from the next room, I sit in darkness and rain
While you emit light from each tooth you can't contain
I'm tired of draining
You seep through the cracks of my door and penetrate every pore of me
And I'm not myself anymore
I'm your laugh
I'm your eyes
I'm the violence
I'm the solitude



I'm the solitude

I want you to open up my chest
It's filled with bouquets of poppies and roses
Take as many as you'd like
I didn't grow them for myself
I just want to see you hold beauty
And if it's mine . . .
And when you're sick of roses
Open up my skull
And I'll teach you how to hold a hurricane

I want to find a stranger
And tell them that I exist
And that I was looking for them
I want to ask them how they’re hurting
And what makes them smile like sunshine
And feel like it too
Who made them who they are now
What are they trying to be
And I want to care
And I want them to care back
And I want to be with this stranger
So they won’t be so strange anymore

I'm going to be honest

I want you next to me
I'm going to fade into everything
          and I want you to hold the smoke
          that I become
I'll condense into your tiny storm cloud
And you'll settle the lightning inside me
You'll settle me
I am distant rolling and you are the sound of streetlights through midnight mist
The rain on the pavement is comforting when I can see you glowing

- dear anybody -

pensive
he sits
stirs
drinking music
as if falling asleep
but feeling
everything

All I want
Is
Control
And Baby that's not so much to ask for