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Safe In Arms

You try to pin me down with my own shame

Take my joy and bring me pain

The lies you whisper in my ear

Cannot deceive the hope I’ve found here

 

Safe in arms wrapped tight around

Your knives they twist the shroud of my gown

Your voice it drips with venom down

But my heart does not skip a sound

 

You will not take my hope and joy

My life is not yours to make a toy

I will hold on to my faith with steadfast strength

Knowing what happens to your fate

 

My weaknesses you seek to find

My hands and feet you try to bind

My body disheveled but my heart still beats

From ashes to beauty my story this meets

 

A tired and broken spirit found

By a love unending that cannot be bound

Your tricks and lies they end tonight

Though you may struggle, though you may fight

 

Safe in arms wrapped tight around

Your knives they twist the shroud of my gown

Your voice it drips like venom down

But my heart does not skip a sound

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ashlee-cline
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Published
Dec 7, 2011
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