I don't think you would understand what I would mean if I told you.

I don't mean that you are hot, or I like your makeup, or even an admiration for those amazing things you were born with like your eyes, your lips, your cheek bones.

No I mean that you are something else entirely.

When I say you are beautiful, I mean that if there ever were such a thing as an angel, it would look like you.

Just let me see
I don't need to breathe
A flash of white
A blinding light
Filing rows
Bright it glows
Lips that flow
And down I go
Weak at the knees
Light in the head
Got what I need
But I missed what you said
Cause you took me miles
With those perfect smiles

I'm short on words I'm afraid
Only fragments come to mind these days
But there's a story to be told
In the few I hold

Far, this one for you, to start
Sometimes miles, mostly in heart

Waiting, not my favorite one
But it has to be done

Falling, you and I 
In different ways sometimes

Doubt, has me plucking apart flowers
She loves me, she loves me not, for hours

Hope, bricks to build our home
Though hard to do here alone

Beauty, on my mind all the time
Your lovely fingers laced in mine

Embrace, I felt something in you
Did you feel it too?

Lastly Happiness, the reason I'm all out of words
Hard to speak when you smile so hard it hurts

Last night as I slept you visited me
Don't know what I thought it would be
A pleasant hopeful dream
All the things I wanted to see
But no, it wasn't those things
Not happiness it brings
But a reality that stings
Like seeing a puppet on the saddest strings

In this dream we shared a kiss
I looked into your eyes in ignorant bliss
But there was something in there I wish I missed
Still haunting me as I'm writing this
You pushed me away as I saw your heart
I ached as the moment fell apart
I tried to assure you, play it smart
But you had already decided to leave and depart

Your body lingered, stayed there with me
But your soul was miles away I could already see
I realized as I left the embrace
All this time I had given chase
You thought you didn't want what I had to give
Because you're too miserable to really live
You cling to pain to keep you alive
And I could think you're very right

But the truth is much simpler than that
You want to be caught in this trap
Because it's much easier to give up and die
Lay down and don't even try
You're caught up in being hung up
I said in my dream
But I don't think you listened to me

Because my mind doesn't know what you would say
If I told you I would never walk away
If I told you to give up this petty obsession
Stop inviting demons for your possession
One day you'll choose
Me or this bruise
And one day you'll be happy either way
You'll have everything with me or your favorite pain

Look in the mirror what do you see?
Wretched, broken, sad and ugly?
Does it make your skin crawl?
To know you mean nothing at all?

They think you're really something don't they?
And one, the worst fool, to want to stay
He's never known the heart break
Left in your terrible wake
He's never been hurt
You tell yourself
Never been lower than dirt
Never lived with eyes in hell

Who am I this time?
To make him cry?
Let him go
He'll find his way
He couldn't know
The burning pain...

But he does
Broken by love
Pushed and shoved
Fell from above
Nothing new
For him too
But the fire that rages within
Not consuming like yours
Not wearing him thin
Not fighting wars

It is a red hot flame
Burns the words of your name
He's seen your heart so cold
He's seen into your dying soul
He has a heart of ember coals
All for you if you wish it so
Not because he has something to prove
Not for satisfaction in closing wounds
Because you deserve this
Ever bit of it

He doesn't care if you don't believe in bliss
He'll see what you believe after a kiss
Take your fears and doubts
And leave them somewhere else
Cause there's no room in here
Not for you and I my dear

Fire on water, watching the sun rise
For a moment I thought I saw your eyes
Whisper of wind ruffles my hair
I almost swore you were there
Laughing on a couch with friends
Maybe I glimpsed you on the end
At night as I slept with the dead
Felt your weight on the lonely bed
At dawn a chilly biting breeze
Reminds me you're not here with me
But I still hold on to believe
Someday you'll open up and see
There's a world of not I but we
Just open the door and set us free

Ask me to hold
The world in my hand
Ask me to grow old
Waiting to see you again
Ask me to stitch
Wounds so deep
Blood all lost
To the floor it seeps
Ask me to fight
Your burdened mind
Hold everything tight
That I could find
Ask me to stand
That I may lose
Never hold your hand
So bad I want to
Ask me to do
The things you won't
Ask me to choose
When you don't
I would do anything it's true
But never ask me to give up on you