i bet you love raising a teenager
and imagining the scolding
the yelling
the “you don’t understand”
the eye rolls
the excuses
your golden excuse
hormones
the **** phone

but what you don’t understand
is that i don’t understand
and i am simply too tired to find out

i crawled into your city
i fought into your state
i smash down your doors
and had the nerve to call it fate

i drag you by the hair
everything looks so cruel
and i know it isnt fair
and you don’t think it’s cool

but how else do i save a friendship?
gather up all the scraps
clean it off and take it home
then realize it’s all crap

there is only one way i know how to do it, of course
by force

Damaged people are dangerous because they know how to survive,
And if you've never been damaged you don't know how it feels to be alive,
See struggle is the sauce that gives success its flavour,
when life kicked you down it was doing you a favour.

Cos it's in your darkest hour, not in prosperity
that you will realise your true ability.
Life dunks you in deep waters not to drown you but to cleanse you.
And that's just the beginning of what it will put you through.
But it's chiselling you down, you won't deflate.
It's not wearing you thin, it's getting you to your fighting weight.
Prosperity makes monsters, adversity makes men.
I believe when you reach the top life will yank you back down again.

You didn't break down, you just had a flat tyre
so get back up and relight that fire.
keep it burning and churning at the pit of your heart
and keep on learning and yearning and never fall apart.

Stare life in the eyes
and say "no matter how many times
my spirit won't break if my drive never dies"
So throw me a burden I won't lose my composure,
It's for this very reason that life gave me shoulders.

Get better not bitter
This weather will wither
I'll turn wounds into wisdom
sadness into spirit
tears to tenacity
I will never quit it

Take a deep breath and concentrate your stare
because a road with no obstacles never took you anywhere.

I love you ≠ You love me

it’s like time passes but it doesn’t register
i move through it smoothly but you are stuck
are your clogs broken?
but they were never fixed

not now
not ever
so i have to accept
that my best bet

is simply moving on without them
because i am in the now, and they are in the then