"One Thing"

I’ve been

Underwhelmed

Overcooked and

Jaded

Living on my last

Drop of adrenaline

Need a change to

Come screaming down the road

Bold-faced and petrified

To shake me

Resurrect what’s left

To bide me

And my time here

In limbo

A quarter-life being unreliable

Now I’ll take a stand

Against myself

And make a change

No more backing out

No more backing out

Keeping my feet planted

On the ground

And my heart

Soaring through the clouds

I’ll take what I can get

No complaints

Using blessings to achieve the rest

No cursing and crying

When nothing turns out

I’ll keep trying

Don’t let myself down

Now I’ll take a stand

Against myself

And make a change

No more backing out

No more backing out

Keeping my feet planted

On the ground

And my heart

Soaring through the clouds

If there was one thing I could save

I’d learn my way but stay the same

Finding new ways to forgive

And leave a pint of blood

Where I live

Now I’ll take a stand

Against myself

And make a change

No more backing out

No more backing out

Keeping my feet planted

On the ground

And my heart

Soaring through the clouds

Keeping my feet planted

On the ground

And my heart soaring

"Take Me"

What if

We were just for each other

In this brief moment

For the very last breath?

Come to me

In the middle of the moonlight

Throw pebbles at my

One story window

There’s no better than inside my head

Serene and wild romance

Sings the song I’d hoped to come

But the unrequited piece could overrule

Take all of me and

Make me

I’ll treat your body like 2 a.m.

And your heart like Sunday morning

Oh, darling

If you would take this unrequited piece and pass

I could go on alone and fragile

But full of serene and wild romance

write something

I sit up and write

Rubbish to a T

Searching for the words to my song

That just won’t come

Relate to, and bear all

But I don’t speak through anything

Play you something sweet and sound

Play you up undone and unbound

They’ll all go on thinking you’re something grand

But it’s up to me to make that stand

There’s a gutted inkling

Standing in my doorway

Poking me in the ribs

From ten feet away

If you see him around

I can be found somewhere nearby

All of society is walking around with

Broken hearts

And walking down the street,

I wonder if the pain in my knee is

Just mental

Sometimes the dream is so close

It almost trickles down your throat

But in the reality of it all

I could love you to the ground

And get absolutely nowhere

Hopefully we’ll all stop playing telephone

With rumors floating around

Strange human nature

Can’t feel the air if I don’t keep moving

Don’t know where I’m driving

But steady breath will keep me going

tattoo the children

Knock me off my feet

Pray to God we last

That Jack really went to my head fast

Tripping over words

Why do you ask questions you already know the answers to?

Why do I do the things my morals say I shouldn’t do?

It’s the Absinthe

That liquid courage

And a little green fairy

Whispers dirty things in your ear

Stumbling over stories

When will we stop spinning?

Am I really winning?

If fish can breathe underwater, can’t I?

Belated

You tasted

Me

And I’m wasted

Waiting for one something to come along and

Save me

The ones who could save me before

Don’t wait up anymore

I’m seeing two of you.

she dances in hurricanes

She dances in hurricanes

Tears up paper 'til it's too thick to rip

With freckles on her shoulders and moonlight on her cheeks,

skin too delicate for one's mouth to meet

And say when those mouths gather the day she's gone,

"A firefly she was on the days she believed in herself,"

and move on.

She dances in hurricanes

in dresses of cotton and lace.

Winds and tiny needles pour across her ivory face

Winter is her Spring

Summer in Ireland

Her pale rose love is what mouths don't understand

So lay her soul down in a pasture to sleep

for she won't find skin as delicate as hers to meet

And sing her a song in a sweet, Irish melody

as she dreams in the love of rose-colored familiarity

what i've learned

I took you

Into my eyes

Showed you inside

Without a letter

To say

But four

On the rocks

I am tired, tired

Of holding on

Through and through

Left alone to

Wade,

Think,

And wait to sink

I will turn myself

To the wall

Throw a tantrum for

All to see and hear

With my abandoned hibitions

At the bottom of a glass

Boat

you weren't there

Don’t leave

Without your safety net

He’ll catch you if

His flaws don’t grow

And you will still go

But you weren’t there

To break my fall

Yet I won’t show the ache at all

You weren’t there

To brush the hair

From my face

You brush me away

I’ve been untied and unraveled, too

But saying that’s not stopping you

Your apathy turned to scrutiny

So you can just ignore me

And go

Wipe

Out