To my favourite
Man behind the lens
Please forgive me
I want to let you in
A thousand voices
Tell me you’d be true
But I’m so scared
You’ll leave me black and blue
Walk the lines
So slowly
It’s not defined
Move slowly
Ask me why
I’m shaking
All I touch is breaking
It’s just the risk I take
It’s just the choice I make
Oh make me bend
Don’t break
Crushed out under
Phenomenal weight
Of all this…
Of all this…
To my favourite
Man behind the lens
The light refracts
And I’m on fire again
Can you see the way I look at you?
Fumbling, scared that you might leave soon
Walk the lines
So slowly
It’s not defined
Move slowly
Ask me why
I’m shaking
All I touch is breaking
It’s just the risk I take
It’s just the choice I make
Oh make me bend
Don’t break
Crushed out under
Phenomenal weight
Of all this…
Of all this…
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
In the middle of the night
It just exploded like the 4th of July
Lit up the sky
Little heart just running away with fire
At 12 o’clock
On the dot
I woke from my heavy sleep
To watch the sparks go flying
From my chest down to my feet
Oh oh c’mon baby
And figure it out
Take the time you need
But oh oh c’mon baby
Hold on tight
Or let me leave
Oh oh c’mon honey
The door is wide open
And I could start running
Oh oh c’mon baby
It just can’t stay this way
Oh little boy
I’m a toy
Sitting there on the shelf
Watch anger rise up in his eyes
If I’m touched by someone else
Have your cake, eat it all
And back me up to the wall
You’re the one I want
But I am not
I am not yours at all
It just exploded like the 4th of July
Lit up the sky
Little heart just running away with fire
At 12 o’clock
On the dot
I woke from my heavy sleep
To watch the sparks go flying
From my chest down to my feet
Oh oh c’mon baby
And figure it out
Take the time you need
But oh oh c’mon baby
Hold on tight
Or let me leave
Oh oh c’mon honey
The door is wide open
And I could start running
Oh oh c’mon baby
It just can’t stay this way
Oh little boy
I’m a toy
Sitting there on the shelf
Watch anger rise up in his eyes
If I’m touched by someone else
Have your cake, eat it all
And back me up to the wall
You’re the one I want
But I am not
I am not yours at all
once upon a dream...
I just remember looking at you… the panicked expression running rampant on your face. I was holding your hand after we dropped down to kiss the bright green grass. It was like some kind of magic movie set. Everything around us was full of bright brilliant colour and absolutely beautiful. Flooded with the most immaculate sunlight I’ve ever seen. A forest surrounded the grassy field where we lay peering up at two lone trees a little way off in the center of it all.
The men stood. I knew I didn’t like them. They were the sort of men who had pocket watches hanging from their waistcoats. The kind who had tailors whose crafty hands still couldn’t mask the bulge of their Jolly St. Nicholas bellies. Yet, there was nothing jolly about them. Rather sinister. Something cruel in their mouths turned upward. They’d led us to this place, and I’m still not sure why we followed. They had something to do with all of this. Not the beauty of it all, but the bombs that were dropping all around. The bombs, which, I might add, were absolutely invisible. Sonic blasts shook the earth, and the leaves from the trees seemed to fall at each blast. But, they were never bare. Each time we looked again, they were full of summer-time leaves. Everything blew around for a moment following the dreadful sound of impact, but nothing was broken or even moved.
Your screams joined with the others with us. Those screams that come from that feeling that all is lost and that we might actually die. I knew better, somehow. Everything sounded horrible, as though the last battle of Armageddon was upon us. Yet my confidence in the fact that we were absolutely safe remained, just as everything around remained untouched and un-phased by this auditory onslaught. I wasn’t afraid. I tried to explain and make you understand. Instead I just squeezed your trembling hand.
All was bright and beautiful.
All was well and would be.
And then it all became quite still…
And then the men disappeared…
And then you understood.
The men stood. I knew I didn’t like them. They were the sort of men who had pocket watches hanging from their waistcoats. The kind who had tailors whose crafty hands still couldn’t mask the bulge of their Jolly St. Nicholas bellies. Yet, there was nothing jolly about them. Rather sinister. Something cruel in their mouths turned upward. They’d led us to this place, and I’m still not sure why we followed. They had something to do with all of this. Not the beauty of it all, but the bombs that were dropping all around. The bombs, which, I might add, were absolutely invisible. Sonic blasts shook the earth, and the leaves from the trees seemed to fall at each blast. But, they were never bare. Each time we looked again, they were full of summer-time leaves. Everything blew around for a moment following the dreadful sound of impact, but nothing was broken or even moved.
Your screams joined with the others with us. Those screams that come from that feeling that all is lost and that we might actually die. I knew better, somehow. Everything sounded horrible, as though the last battle of Armageddon was upon us. Yet my confidence in the fact that we were absolutely safe remained, just as everything around remained untouched and un-phased by this auditory onslaught. I wasn’t afraid. I tried to explain and make you understand. Instead I just squeezed your trembling hand.
All was bright and beautiful.
All was well and would be.
And then it all became quite still…
And then the men disappeared…
And then you understood.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
seems so far...
i want to be able to make music/art and live off of it. (and have enough to allow my family to live comfortably and enjoy the world we live in)
i want to live in the same town as my best friends.
i want to call london home.
i want to be romanced...by a man who's absolutely crazy about me. for a lifetime. who thinks i'm beautiful and the best girl ever, essentially. a love i can't outrun, outlove. out...anything. love.
i want a boy to love and spoil and all kinds of marvelous things.(the one mentioned above)
i want a puppy named winston.
and eventually, some babies.
that's all really.
i want to live in the same town as my best friends.
i want to call london home.
i want to be romanced...by a man who's absolutely crazy about me. for a lifetime. who thinks i'm beautiful and the best girl ever, essentially. a love i can't outrun, outlove. out...anything. love.
i want a boy to love and spoil and all kinds of marvelous things.(the one mentioned above)
i want a puppy named winston.
and eventually, some babies.
that's all really.
on the eve of my twenty-something-th year.
Twenty minutes til the countdown to
Some kinda new wonderful
Experience the light/sound
Tell me what it means
When you say
Calculate the hours
Well, you count them back to me
And I cannot find the answer
Same as you cannot find me
Oh, They Like it when we fly inside
They try to make us run and hide
To the beat of a different drum
To the tune of the maddening hum
Oh, we’ve shaken their blood to the core
But they keep just coming back for more
I think I should just go back to bed
I got a case of the real mean reds
Hysterical
I threw that bottle at the door
At least I wanted to cos now
My hands are really sore
Cos I’ve been punching in the walls
I’m ready for a fight
I know you’ve never seen me like this
But something’s just not right
Oh, They Like it when we fly inside
They try to make us run and hide
To the beat of a different drum
To the tune of the maddening hum
Oh, we’ve shaken their blood to the core
But they keep just coming back for more
I think I should just go back to bed
I got a case of the real mean reds
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Did you see hear it on the back porch?
Oh the man was walkin by here
all sinister and full of scorn
oh the sky was full of blue that year
they were talking of the hurricanes
too busy just to notice
the ticking of the pocket watch
still asking what the time is
Tender like the night
We ran from the site
We ran but not to hide
Sweet like wine the day
It was right as rain
I forgot to feel afraid
all the walls look like they’re listening
to the secrets I’ve disclosed here
the diaries repeating
confidential thoughts of love and fear
and they wrapped the words around my wrist
and I slept right through the fever
til my hands would not unclench the fist
but my words were getting clearer
Tender like the night
We ran from the site
We ran but not to hide
Sweet like wine the day
It was right as rain
I forgot to feel afraid
I sat next to the quiet one
And he told me of romances
My skin went red beneath the sun
So we moved beneath the branches
And I saw inside those furtive eyes
A hundred subtle glances
That caused the ghost in my heart to transpose
My weariness to dances
Tender like the night
We ran from the site
We ran but not to hide
Sweet like wine the day
It was right as rain
I forgot to feel afraid
Some kinda new wonderful
Experience the light/sound
Tell me what it means
When you say
Calculate the hours
Well, you count them back to me
And I cannot find the answer
Same as you cannot find me
Oh, They Like it when we fly inside
They try to make us run and hide
To the beat of a different drum
To the tune of the maddening hum
Oh, we’ve shaken their blood to the core
But they keep just coming back for more
I think I should just go back to bed
I got a case of the real mean reds
Hysterical
I threw that bottle at the door
At least I wanted to cos now
My hands are really sore
Cos I’ve been punching in the walls
I’m ready for a fight
I know you’ve never seen me like this
But something’s just not right
Oh, They Like it when we fly inside
They try to make us run and hide
To the beat of a different drum
To the tune of the maddening hum
Oh, we’ve shaken their blood to the core
But they keep just coming back for more
I think I should just go back to bed
I got a case of the real mean reds
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Did you see hear it on the back porch?
Oh the man was walkin by here
all sinister and full of scorn
oh the sky was full of blue that year
they were talking of the hurricanes
too busy just to notice
the ticking of the pocket watch
still asking what the time is
Tender like the night
We ran from the site
We ran but not to hide
Sweet like wine the day
It was right as rain
I forgot to feel afraid
all the walls look like they’re listening
to the secrets I’ve disclosed here
the diaries repeating
confidential thoughts of love and fear
and they wrapped the words around my wrist
and I slept right through the fever
til my hands would not unclench the fist
but my words were getting clearer
Tender like the night
We ran from the site
We ran but not to hide
Sweet like wine the day
It was right as rain
I forgot to feel afraid
I sat next to the quiet one
And he told me of romances
My skin went red beneath the sun
So we moved beneath the branches
And I saw inside those furtive eyes
A hundred subtle glances
That caused the ghost in my heart to transpose
My weariness to dances
Tender like the night
We ran from the site
We ran but not to hide
Sweet like wine the day
It was right as rain
I forgot to feel afraid
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