slowly strip me
from my armor.
should have known
you'd find my soul.
heartbeat faster,
breathing louder.

found a place
where
i belong.

I always hide so well
my anger, love and demons
but they are all inside
and I can hear them screaming.

I hid it all so well
so nobody can see  
my love, my heart, my sorrow
I'm somewhere in between.

My love, she was so still
until I finally found you
Now all of them are free
and all of them define me.

You stole my dreams
but they decided
you are a better home
than me.

I kept your nightmares
safe with mine
so you can sleep
at night.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the ****** and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to ***** up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?

Me?
I was born a storm
A whirlwind of inner turmoil
Tsunamis tripping off my tongue.