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Nathan Machesky Feb 2013
Believing yourself before being able to question yourself
Calling before seeing the cards you've been dealt

Building with blocks, creating imagination before building walls, creating distance
As you grow older and not colder you find that your imagination turns to pretending
and pretending turns to wishes

Breathing fresh life, before scarring your own flesh rights
Spending time, without understanding sleepless nights

Seeing clearly before squinting to read between the lines
Hearing symphonies before tolerating lies

I imagine,
I pretend,
I wish,
I were young again.
Nathan Machesky Feb 2013
Isn't it crazy
How we'll burn a wall for a picture.
Isn't it crazy
How we'll waste life  for a scripture
Yeah, it's crazy
but we all grow a little bit sicker
Yeah, it's crazy
but the path doesn't get clearer

We're all just ficticious stories
unweaving our beginnings
to write our own ends

As ink runs out
to stories from blood filled pens
we'll wonder if we really ever got to blend
Nathan Machesky Feb 2013
And I'm sitting here tonight underneath the influence
Cold pennsylvania nights give persistence to the obvious
I might regret the end of nights in this province
The wonderful feeling I have, I won't stop this
Nathan Machesky Feb 2013
a monster,
a monster,
you've created a monster
whiskey seems to be my holy water

I'll lead them on just to know I can
I'll make them love me, but it's only a scam

I want to say I'm sorry
but they should know they'll never scar me

a monster
a monster
you've created a monster
whiskey seems to be my holy water
I now see why you never bothered
Nathan Machesky Feb 2013
Embrace the times to endure
Soon the diseases will find their own cure

The strength to carry on will heal all wounds
The sun will break through the clouds of the monsoon

Winter will end and cold shoulders will thaw
Overall spirits will grow within us all

Your smile will bloom, beauty will not cease
You'll learn that life is filled with defeat

Frame up your scars, don't cover them up
Your eyes will glimmer and know what is what

Learn from your mistakes; yeah, that's what they'll say
gaining knowledge, changing to bliss from dismay

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