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 Feb 2014 Newt Figgins
marina
your mind is a forest, and i
want to carve my initials
onto every tree
If tomorrow had a name
That name it would be lonely
Then it could join all my yesterdays

They'd sit around and talk
Of all the if's and only's
If only I hadn't let it slip away

The stars would come out at night
And join in the conversation
With their reasoning slightly out of tune

It's hard to tell what's going on
In some distant constellation
Although they've heard the whisper of the moon

Time holds an emptiness
That pulls the plug on youth
Adding more sadness to the mix of sorrow

I ask the path along the way
What is there to do
With loneliness given the same name as tomorrow
Let's pretend no one else exists
 Feb 2014 Newt Figgins
galio
you are like a book to me
with pages torn and missing
yet you never fail to show
the mystery and beauty within

the dusty smell of your pages turned
reveal a soft and fragile state
while your cover is hard and strong
but still withering away

i really would not mind
spending the rest of my life
finding your missing pieces
and reading the words in your eyes
you are like a book to me
whereas i was simply a chapter
 Feb 2014 Newt Figgins
Andi Leigh
The ache I feel goes deeper as the days grow longer
They say time heals, but really the pain becomes stronger
I wish I could be in your arms where everything is right
Instead, all I can hope is that I will get some sleep tonight
I wish that time didn't go so slow while I sit here and wait
But time is a thief, and I can't rush what will be fate
I miss my best friend and the love of my life
It is all that I can hope for to one day be your wife
I want all of you, the good, the bad, and the wild
Because our love is anything but normal and nothing mild
For Layton
I'll set my eyes on the flame eternal
For what is seen will not sustain
Jesus burn the world inside me
For me to die is gain.

Hope,
be the anchor in my soul.
I'll tie me to you and never cut the rope.
Trust,
be the thing that I know best
with the enemy and his tests I'll stand up strong.
Burdens,
I'll lay them at your feet
cause my strength can't compete with your mighty power.
Fear,
be of my ancient past.
With this flame I won't look back into the darkness.
Love,
It's something I can do
because you did it first and I'm forgiven.
Praise,
I will praise your holy name
cause your eternal flame has put the enemy to shame.

I'll set my eyes on the flame eternal
For what is seen will not sustain
Jesus burn the world inside me

For me to die is gain.
I did it again  
This heart's bound to loose
Before it can win
So pack your bags
And cover your eyes
I don't want them to
See me cry

Why do I fall like the water from my eyes?
Why do i crawl for the ones that tell me lies?
This is my new point of view:
I'm better off without you.

I did it again
I played with fire
And I got singed
Don't bring a bandage
I want to bleed
To remind me
What I do not need

Why do I burn for the ones that are so cold?
Why do I yearn for the story that's been told?

I did it again
That sweet talker
He lured me in
So quit your fishing
Cut your bait
I should have known
To hesitate

Why do I bite the ones that have a hook?
Why do I fight when I know I'll Just be cooked?

My heart is Clumsy
It tends to Fall
It makes me mad
It's such a know it all
The next boy
Why not tell me first
Before I fall prey to
Your own curse

This is my new point of view:
I'm better off without you.
Two states over your heart is beating
that fact alone hinders my breathing.
Sometimes I wish you didn't exist
so that my heart and my soul could be through with this.

His eyes don't effect me the way that yours do
though nothing was established between me and you.
He told me his heart while keeping his soul
and time keeps on passing, you've yet to be bold.

The hands of the clock are moving the time
and if you don't hurry I might change my mind.
Maybe my words are to convince my own head
maybe I've imagined all the things that you've said.

If you were only fiction
perhaps I could see his eyes.
The reality of you impairs my vision.
I feel like i'm bleeding, waiting for my own demise

Get in or get out, the boat is leaving the shore.
But it would leave and float nowhere, you are the oars.
Enough of your talk, I know now it's cheap
Just show me I am the person you'll keep.
Driving home late Saturday
The sun is fading away
I thought my memory of you was fading too

In the cab the stereo plays
"It kills me when he's gone"
I never had you and I'm barely hanging on

You are iron, my reality is brass.
what do you wan't from me?
Why do I even have to ask.
I want you but I want to let you go.

I wrote you wouldn't call
But then i heard your voice
My mind chooses you because my heart won't give me a choice

Normally word's come easy to me,
when I sit here and play behind these white keys.
But I'm thinking of you and my tongues all confused,
boy you got me twisted.
I wrote down some words about another man,
but for some reason you're still inside my hands.
your the chorus to all of my songs,
and my heart just can't stop singing along.

You are iron, my reality is brass.
What do you want from me?
Why do I even have to ask.
I want you but I want to let you go.

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