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Matthew Nichols Oct 2013
If I had one more tomorrow
No time to waste or borrow
One chance to tell you straight
One chance for a seed to take
One piece of life left to give
One moment I have yet to live
I would say what I meant
Though you wouldn't understand
If the message was sent
I would know I died a man

I would tell you I love you
Though you don't know why
Never taken a date for two
Never held you as you cried
Never been there for Christmas
To give you a gift
Just what you needed plus
So heartfully picked

Never protected you from a storm
Keeping the rain away and the covers warm
Never spent the summer together
Looked into your eyes under the stars forever
Never pulled you out of trouble
Just to get you deeper in it
Never ran a bath full of bubbles
Never played a game just to let you win it

Never laughed at how cute you get
When your mad and I know you want me dead
Never slipped out of time
Never made you truly mine

But you see, these things I don't need
To know you're worth loving with everything in me
Because it doesn't take time
Doesn't take moments
Because in this heart of mine
You don't have to grow it
All I do is look with a heart open wide
And I see you and I swell with pride
Because there's so much to love in a beautiful soul
If this last moment is the only time you'd believe me
If unconditional love would pull you from this hole
Then my life would have meaning
Matthew Nichols Oct 2013
I've got it all in hand
I'm doing all I can
Just follow the plan
I'll show you how to stand
Let's swing this spot light now
Yea we'll put on a show
I've got it all worked out
Just jump and then you'll know
I fall upon deaf ears like a crashing wave
Cause no one hears me shout when they start to cave

I've got it all in hand
The magic of motion
Lead you to dry land
Just feel some emotion
I hit this darkened town
Strobe lights to bring it down
I fill streets with happy tears
To drown out all your fears
I hear the sirens call
But they don't bother me at all
No they don't bother me at all

Don't cry don't cry
Just for tonight
You could say goodbye
If you give up the fight
How would I say
If I had the words
That it'll be ok
Even if it hurts
Matthew Nichols Oct 2013
It's the danger that draws them near
It's the blood that keeps them here
I feel it flowing through your veins
Bringing a blush to your lovely face
Can you feel me in your neck
Creeping into your head?

Blurring the lines of life and fantasy
Of what was real before me
Maybe it's not what I say that makes you mine
It's the smile that runs sparks through your spine

Or the eyes slow and warm
Sinking into yours 
Makes you feel like a ghost
For a moment free of flaws
The very thing I want the most
Or perhaps you're nothing at all

You can't predict me
Can't place me
Can't see into me
Can't be free of me
I am everywhere
Like smoke in a dim room
Lulling you anywhere
A dream made just for you

Take the bet and toss the dice
I'll always win with these snake eyes
And all the cards played oh so right
I'll take the chips before your eyes

Are you scared? You're breathing so hard
But you can't turn back you've come too far
Your heart is beating so very fast
But you're finally here at last
Fingers like feathers grace your skin
Leaving trails of fire from beginning to end

Too much to take at once
A lot of work for a bit of fun
Hands moving to and fro
Drawing warmth from deep below
Meeting piercing eyes
So blue and deep as a mine
Drinking the heat as you drown
In a sea of sapphire pulling you down

Skin melds together into soft red velvet
Froze your lips so I know you felt it
More than two bodies we are two souls
Spinning through the stars hot as coals
Fall into my atmosphere
And find me here

Time doesn't know how to get in
It will wait for us until the end
The deeper you get the more you see
Everything is strange inside of me
Nothing is as it seems
Intoxication sinking into your dreams

Like a walk on thin air
I'll take you everywhere
Before you know it your feet are up 
You'll be swept away in this moment of us
You could surely get used to this
Wrapped in cool grace and burning mystery
It was only a moment of true bliss
Let's see if you can catch me
Matthew Nichols Oct 2013
This hell is yours
No one forced you here
They only showed you the door
And you chose to choose fear
Matthew Nichols Oct 2013
Don't you say a word
Don't make a sound
These feelings can't be heard
Over our hearts so loud
Don't tell me of blurring lines
Of tragedy and company intertwined
Don't tell me you're afraid this time
When there's nothing to fear if you're mine

There's no apologies to be made for you and I
Nothing to cause your heavy sighs
There is only truth in your lies
You're afraid to feel alive
Like Alice in a wonderland 
Let me take your hand
And tell you how far the rabbit hole goes
Because this reality is all for show
There's a place waiting for you and I
Beneath the stars but in the sky
When or how I cannot tell
You will see you created your hell
Don't pay attention to these frail words
They're nothing compared to what has occurred
Inside our hearts we'll never be the same
If only you could let it change
Matthew Nichols Oct 2013
Take me back in time
When we were young and we believed
Be the rhythm to a rhyme
I wound through the air for you to see
There was a day was there not
When we loved and never fought
Our hearts for control
Never tried to stop the flow
When did we let it go?
When did we stop trying to grow?

Remember a time, it's all I ask
Just please take it all back
Meet me where the world was easy
I'll be there waiting just believe me
I'll show you fireflies in the woods
We'll dance in the snow and never feel the cold
We'll walk the rain without our hoods
We'll love with hearts that will never grow old
You can tread the lonely stars with no fear 
No such thing as a fall if I catch you my dear

Live with a back unburdened by this world
Laugh with the laugh of that little girl
That I know still breathes
Still warms my heart when you are near
Eyes full of light beneath
The sadness and the fear
Dry that beautiful face and look for more
Inside this chest beats a key to the door
Unclench your fists and reach through the silence
Show the world the meaning of defiance
Don't leave me here without you
This place was meant for two
I understand so much, I do
But paradise is nothing without you
Matthew Nichols Oct 2013
Hello again
My shadow friend
I don't know where home went
Don't know how daylight was spent
But it seems that night
Draws close to my eyes
I'll hold you tight
So you won't leave my sight
My angel of dreams
Has left it seems
Hung from the rafter beams
Swore she would never leave

But she was scared
Can't hide her eyes
I needed her there
To breathe my sighs
But there was no compromise
For her demise
How can she visit me
When my eyes can't see
No matter how much I sleep
I couldn't be free
There wasn't a reprieve
Not for her I believe
My dreams faded with hope
Dragging her below
But if there's anything she knows
It's that I won't always be alone

Someday the shadow and me
We'll have some company
So bright will you be
I'll be helpless when I see
You'll know I believe
And you'll rescue me
We'll find my angel of dreams
And I'll embrace her again
My heart stitched at the seams
She'll come back to me then
The dark may take me now
And leave me here unknown
But you'll find me somehow
And never again will I be so alone
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