the film version
with eyes like this
we can set the world on fire
..
with a voice like that
i’d let you say anything
you want to me
..
this night lasts forever
life’s too short to die
love’s too fickle to lie
i may be dying in my dreams
so if you wake me up, promise to keep my eyes
and i’ll never fall asleep again.
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just remember:
with lines like this
we can learn to live forever.
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bliss
this is a lesson
this is a ghost
this is proof
of what we need the most
i’m hanging by a thread
it may sound cliche
and obsolete
but for me,
in these hard times,
it’s either write
or die.
and you’re one step closer
to the mark you aim to miss
and i’m sitting, teetering
one step closer
to my strangled bliss
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hiding
you were in flames
and it took the taste of sulfur
dripping down my fang
to realize,
you were burning
and i guess i started the fire
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stories
that night,
we watched the sun set over that burning building
wouldn’t you know it?
it collapsed over everything,
the flames, the towers
they just weren’t enough
to sustain us so we finally
just gave up
and decided to break out the books
and the matches
and make our own magic.
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convenient love
you can’t give it a name
if it doesn’t have one
and i can’t get you to feel me again
if you’ve decided to be numb
finally, it looks like
you’ve got it your own way
“well,
i don’t think you do.
but whatever you say.”
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mmk.
i want to erase
the fabric of time
so you can never trace me back
to where i’ve been
and all these boys
are just drug addicts waiting to be in love
i don’t want to erase
this make-up from my face
so you won’t know that i’m dead
so you can’t pin all these little people that i’ve been
i may be crazy
but i did what i thought was right at the time
and i never meant to hurt anyone,
but if i did and it did you in,
then at least you were already heart broken
from birth.
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twice and then once more
so what if i write off everybody i’ve ever known?
it’s just another trick for someone who doesn’t believe in ghosts.
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sketch
i’m lost and losing part
of who i used to be
the pieces got caught
amongst the cords beneath my feet
we all got tangled between those sheets
the pens you used
to deconstruct me
drew circles around us
in truth,
my counted reasons are growing few
and maybe it’s taken me this long to do
but i’ve finally stopped
believing you.
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shortcuts
the kids on the corner all want more
all those days on our own, just trying to figure out where we were supposed to go
this place isn’t so new but it’s special
i walk the path and feel those stones we stood over for an endless summer
the space; you held me
closer, with so much
unspoken and unsaid
so we turned the music louder
cause we didn’t know what else to do
and with the sidewalk blurring beneath my shoes i was
beginning to beg to count on you
and i
awoke
with pain playing like it was
yesterday on replay
but weren’t you the one who didn’t care if my
boots were off,
if your tie was undone?
the stones sweat out of my shoes
as my words unravel and become a seam of something i used to mean
plug the speakers in and everythings loud again
your figure fading out of view
and i just can’t stand to watch you
the answers always blur
when love comes into question
the snow has melted
and now it’s seeping into your bones
and i’m peering into your head
just to see what was left
in the middle of everything,
you became my sanctuary
and it’s a miracle we ever could see how different we were
but my dresser drawer snapped and spilled out
all my notes and drawings sprawled about on the floor
you never could have guessed
but you can hear my smoke alarms go off
with the thud; my feet on concrete
when the music blares
and the record skips a beat
but on the flip side, i guess we were all broken anyway
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buildings as structures
you answer to people
like they’re questions
i don’t remember anything you’ve said to me
but i remember the way you looked at me,
the way your voice rose and fell like ocean currents
and it hides like the shells
splintering, spiking through my head
making holes like ships in the sea
but we’ve set this place on fire twice before
the pages you tore,
igniting with the sparks to meet the flames
all these little words i wrote taught me about the future
i lied and said i never recognize the end when it begins
but i’ve seen little hearts call to you for help, and so you suture
every car crash i’ve seen, another part for your wrecking bin
but this city you stole is a hook
could have sworn i made a promise yesterday
smeared my condoles on a matchbook
so i may not be a “yes”
but i’m not taking no for an answer.
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