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Where can we go when we want to see
The things we know we couldn't be
The thing you wanted I couldn't find
The haunted memoirs of my mind

We shrink inside where pain is bottled
Where ink stains the paper rotten
So we wind up and throw it out to sea
Drifts within the shore in me

Departed pushed by the tide
Discarded polluted inside
Smashed on the shore by the storm
Trash always goes back where it came from
Tracing the lines on a blank page
Lines that were never there
Trying to find my way out of this paper maze
But the page won't tare

You come alive on the page
Your ink stains it red
Your love your pain your hope your rage
It gets into my head

You can't be re-written
Can't be erased
You tear out the ending
And re-write a whole new page
The chapter that would end it all
Starts again
As the hero enters in

The cut out words have been erased
You've taken their place
The story isn't over yet
I'm reading you between the lines
You're the word so new it shines
And flips the story on it's head
I lay down the life I led
You can author me instead
When I was lost in my way
You knew the day you would call me son
Like the son who ran away
You faithfully stayed cause’ you knew I'd come

You waited for me,
So here I am waiting for you.

Every moment so far has drawn me to your arms
You've worked it all for the good
Every moment that's left I give back to pay a debt
I can't make good on
Cause all I can give, is all you have given
When I give it all back there's still heaven left to pay
So I can gladly give my life away

When I felt orphaned
Abandoned and knew that I had no home
Your love was open
A love that awakened a love all our own

You made room for me
So I am clearing space for you.

Every moment so far has drawn me to your arms
You've worked it all for the good
Every moment that's left I give back to pay a debt
I can't make good on
Cause all I can give, is all you have given
When I give it all back there's still heaven left to pay
So I can gladly give my life away

When my hopes are broken
When I can't lift my hands to you
When my heart is aching
And darkness is all that's in view

I look to the cross
And I see you broken
I look to the cross
I see your hands lifted high
Praying for me
In your final moments
Your heart poured out
Your love lifted high

Here I surrender
Here I lay my life down
Here on the altar
I give you my love lay down my crown

You gave your life for me
So here I give my life for you

Every moment so far has drawn me to your arms
You've worked it all for the good
Every moment that's left I give back to pay a debt
I can't make good on
Cause all I can give, is all you have given
When I give it all back there's still heaven left to pay
So I can gladly give my life away
This is who I was
Lost in who I was meant to be
Found all I was not meant to see
In between you and me

This is who I am
Still picking up my tab
Even the one you said you'd grab
But debts are all I've ever had

This is who you are
You won't let go
Cause your love won't let you
No, you won't let go...

This is where we stand
Inseparably apart
Your love pursues my racing heart
And when it stops is where we start

This is where we fall
Half way to where you are
Slipped as I start to pass the falling star
At least the ground is not as far

This is who you are
You won't let go
Cause your love won't let you
No, you won't let go...

If this is all this is
I just want you to know
I know you loved me more
More than love could ever know
Laying down stones,
Building up walls
First comes the temple,
It's not that tall

Invest in foundations that nobody sees
I hope it's enough to get you to me

I have a thousand lovers
You're the only one I want
From a thousand vices
You're the only good I won't
I know they're bad for me, and you're really good
At setting me free from all that I would, not loose...
When i'm this broke, give me the grace not to choose.

Here in my mansion
The walls are so high
You need Jacob's ladder
Just to get inside

There's a hundred rooms just to explore
Ignore the thousands where I've locked the door

You need a place
Take mine
If you need a voice
Take mine
If you take me
In every moment
I might not give myself away
The only think that can keep us apart
Is right here with me
Separating my self from my heart
Until you see

You can't keep us apart
You can take the me out of what I mean
You can't take the I out what's mine

But you can take what you've see, and make it shine
And let the black slip into the back of your mind
Because the only thing that can keep us apart is me
There's a place we used to hide
Between the willow and the wall
It wasn't very wide
Barely a place at all

But you were there, and I was there and no one ever knew
No one could have known what love would do to me and you

They cut the willow down
When they sold our home
The roots deep in the ground
Cracked the wall of stone

And you're not there, but I'm still here and no one knows
And you're not there, but I'm still here and no one knows

And I'm imagining and trying not to of who we used to be
The day we ran away to just go walking by the sea
It's raining so hard in this house that I might drown
Can't remember when we were last around
The willow and the wall are crumbling down

You used to call me your safe place
And you didn't need to smile
I felt tall and strong
Lord it's been a while

I'm still in love with the person that you used to be
And you're sitting there wondering what happened to me

There's a place we used to hide
Between the willow and the wall
It wasn't very wide
Barely a place at all

I'm still waiting for you there, where the leaves are falling
I'm still waiting for you there, where the leaves are falling


And I'm imagining and trying not to of who we used to be
The day we ran away to just go walking by the sea
Now it's raining so hard in this house that I might drown
Can't remember when we were last around
The willow and the wall are crumbling down

We are the rock and the hard place
Our love is caught between
I'm the wall holding you back
But your heart is evergreen
I'm learning that love can be more than out and in
The willow and the wall are coming down

And I'm imagining and trying not to of who we used to be
The day we ran away to just go walking by the sea
The walls coming down give room to grow
To the only love I've ever known
The willow and the wall are crumbling down
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