Don't you dare mistake me for something that I'm not
Don't ever underestimate all that I am
Every time you think that I'm just an afterthought
I come back like cancer again and again
Ill never stop fighting
To give up is to die
Life is a battle; a beautiful battle
Fighting makes me feel so alive
So strive, everyone reach
For your goals and your dreams
No matter how impossible they might seem
The world will do its best to make sure you break
Show how much you can take and put the world in its place
Do all that you can to not just survive but thrive
It's the journey itself that makes us feel alive
People will mistake you for things you are not
People will underestimate all that you are
Live for yourself, live in the moment
Find your own self in your own heart
Love freely
Fight fiercely
Carve out your place on this earth
And fight for it; you own it
It's what you deserve
Don't let the length of the road ahead
Or the dark twists and turns throw you off track
Be all that you can be; forge ahead
You don't ever have to look back
And if you feel like you are in an inescapable hole
Remember it's all in what you make of it; you don't have to be alone

I found her bright and beautiful hiding in plain sight
When we met it was immediately set; it felt so right
We only had met in person for one day and one night
But if she asked me to stay forever I just might
There was no time; no space
Nothing but the two of us in that place
Two souls touching with caring grace
While everything around us faded away
With her I would forever stay
There is no doubt I will love her every day
Do my best to make her happy in every way
Because she means so much to me
We understand eachother in ways hard to believe
It might not be easy but I couldn't see
Something so beautiful wash out to sea
With her forever is where I want to be
My love and I, we have been hurt before
She doesn't deserve to be hurt any more
And the kindness she shows makes me so sure
That hurt is not what my future has in store
She means more to me than words can express
She deserves the best and I will give her nothing less
There is no thing on this earth
That could stop me from reaching her
Her kindness and humor is what I've always looked for
No mountain too high or distace too great
Could interfere with what can only be fate
She has a beautiful soul
I'll never let it go
She takes me as I am
She opens her heart to understand
And it's like I've known her my whole life
It seems like I've known her from the beginning of time
She opened her heart to me and offered it freely
And the she knows that she has mine
It won't be easy; relationships are never easy
But its so nice knowing we will be fine
I have never been so incredibly happy
This love is so amazingly devine
We have waited for all time
For this moment when our shooting stars collide
For this perfect moment
Where I am yours and you are mine

All of my friends; they are on ******
I doubt I will see many of them again
Hour by hour they are dropping like flies
Not a day passes where one doesn't die
Can you imagine the pain you have to feel on the inside
A pain so deep it goes far beyond a cry
To stick a needle in your arm just to feel relief
The substance in the needle becomes your only belief
From safe happy children to roaming the streets
Dying again and again every day every week
No logic behind the willingness to throw away all you have
Sell your soul ten times over just for a forty dollar bag
I can relate to the madness that becomes every day
I can relate to the struggle that comes in so many ways
I can relate to the attraction of chemically induced bliss
I know what its like when your whole life is ****
And so the dealers get rich
While my friends fade away
Looking gaunt, hollow, and sick
Passing slowly through nights and days
It makes me sick
Knowing what someone will do for a fix
Once proud sons and daughters now
On the corners ******* *****
Black tar becomes the holy grail
Black tar becomes your heart
It ensures you will always fail
You will pass into a hell of dark
All my friends are on ******
I wont be seeing any of them again
They were noble and proud and right and so good
And they all end up in coffins of satin and wood

How did I let myself go down to that place?
Dying slowly as I sped up and down the interstate
Everything had been great
Until reality came crashing with all it's weight
And I felt like a waste
Bleeding out half dead and disgraced
Forever hopeless forever displaced
My dreams shattered and misplaced
They all died there in that place
The searing memory of the look on your face
As I screamed and clawed at the ground
Just trying to plead my case
Withdrawal set in, from the drugs and from myself
I didn't foresee ever getting out
Normalcy didn't exist for me; it hurt so bad I shout
And screamed and clawed at the ground
Do you know what its like to dig a hole so deep
That from the inside it looks just like a grave
And you know you might not make it out alive
After all the love you gave
At that point my only choice was to be brave
I knew that God wouldn't come and save me
As I am standing here before you can you see
That that person is not who I wanted to be
I dug myself out of my own grave and I'm alive
I've been through so much and I've survived
You aren't the only one who is surprised
I was sure I would die by 25
Somehow now I am here with you today
I am damaged now but I know I'll be ok
And I'm ready to get going on our way
Through treacherous roads to a better place
A place where we are sound and safe
Where the darkness only comes when it is late
If you look closely you can see the dirt under my nails
Do you know what that dirt entails?
Its a sign that life is so frail
I was buried alive but I refused to fail
I'm stronger now, and smarter too
I've learned from what I've been through
Now there is only one thing left to do
Have to keep pushing onward upward always
Through harsh nights and desolate days
Through mist and through mistakes you've made
Don't ever stop climbing up
Don't ever admit that you've had enough
Even if you have to dig yourself up
And out of a grave that you dug yourself
Even if maybe you think you belong there
If you give up you'll die
I know it's hard but dig yourself out of the grave
Keep living so you can feel alive

It's so much colder here in the morning
The rain is cold and the sky isn't blue
It's so much colder everywhere in the morning
Lying anywhere without you
I know you will be happy when your with me
And with you I will finally feel alive
We've both got baggage and the right to be
Able to decide to just put it all aside
On the day we finally meet
On the day that I finally hold you
In my broken down embrace
I'll never want to leave you there
Without me with you in that broken down place
My life won't ever be the same
Just like my past will forever be stained
But you and I will be ok
And I know we are both afraid
Of the thought that we might be making a mistake
Of the possibility of a high price to be paid
Even with the risk looming overhead
It's a chance I'm more than willing to take
If we don't jump off the edge
That could be the biggest mistake of all
Our happiness could fall
right by the wayside; with all the times they lied
and told it was wrong when we knew it was right
But still I have this plight
My past is just that; it's the past
And yes its filled with broken memories of dreams that shattered just like glass
I lived a life that was hard and fast
I barely made it through the other end intact
So I'm sitting on a cold morning
With my baggage and I'm so blue
It's so much colder everywhere in the morning
When I'm dying without you
So please, love, do your best to get here soon
And I will travel to you by the light of the moon
And I will hold you so close; so soon
Forever changed tomorrow at the strike of noon
I hope I don't scare you away
With all of the horrible things I did do and say
Because the past is the past
And the future begins for us right here today
I will never ever leave you
I always want to be by your side
I'll help you carry your baggage
while I'm hoping we can get past mine
I don't want to be cold in the morning
I want to know that everything is fine
I don't want every morning to be so cold
I just want to know that you are mine

"I'm feeling weak in the knees
And every day of the week
Is silent and grey
And it's always the same"
Can you relate to feeling worthless
Or like you have no soul?
Do you know what it's like in the gutter?
Just a ghost with no place to go?
I do because I've been there before
Desperation rotting at your very core
No day has any sort of meaning
Something always seems wrong
Try to numb yourself to what your feeling
Always listening to the same sad songs
When everyone turns their too good backs
You have to deal with the pain
Your future bleeds the deepest black
Caught outside in endless killing rain
You don't know how your not insane
Suffering through such a lonely existence
Fell to the wayside with not a sound
The killing rain took you without any resistance
It killed your soul and left your body where it wont be found
The killing rain made every day the same
It washed everything in silence; in grey

As I lay here I think of how I couldn't lie to you
How I just want to provide for you
How I would gladly die for you
A million miles away, through all of time and space
You're the only thing I think of while I'm lying here awake
You are the only one I dream of when I'm sleeping in this place
Soon, so soon, it will just be me and you
You and I, side by side, consoling each other at the end of time
I will be the man of your dreams; you're already the woman of mine
I have never laid eyes on a soul so sweet and fine
Our conversations make the world around me seem sublime
And though  I have never held you in a loving embrace
Or had the chance to wipe the tears of the past off of your face
The moment is coming, and I eagerly await
for the destined day when I sit on the train so that we can learn our fate
I am possibly the luckiest man on the face of the entire earth
to be able to talk to you every morning; its the thing that I do first
When you send me your parting message at the end of every day
My heart melts into puddles and I smile; everything else goes away
I just want you to know dear, that with your heart I won't play
It is possible that our heart have been on a collision course
from the very beginning of time
I hope you will give me your heart
You already have all of mine
I am riding in on my big silver horse
So soon, my love, so soon
I just want to whisk you away to a place we can stay
Where I can give you the sun and the moon