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Oh, and when will our heartbeats fall into line,
And the click-clack of our boot heels beat at the same time?
Oh, and when will your hand find itself in mine?
Oh, and when will your hand find itself in mine?

And though I don't know your real name,
Your real age, or your shoe size.
I will leave this bedroom chair
And this keyboard behind

And I will love you in reality and dreams.
And I will love you in reality and dreams.

And though it kills me to know
That when we are through,
You go to your real lover
Who'll put real kisses on you.

Oh well, an 'ex' is about the best that I can do.
Oh well, an 'ex' is about the best that I can do.

And so this lonely, lonely heart
Has no use left for living
After finding her love
In a heart so unpermitting.

And I will die and never ever hold your hand.
And I will die and never ever hold your hand.

But I'll kiss my lips and I'll blow it to you,
It'll be the last thing that I ever do
And wherever you go and whatever you do,
There's a man underground that will always love you

Oh, wherever you go and whatever you do,
There's a man underground that will always love you.

I love that song, Elena. Brilliant shout.


You were a song I couldn't sing,
Caught like a bear by the bees
With its hand in a hive
Who complains of the sting
when I'm lucky I got out alive!

A life at best left half-behind,
The taste of the honey
Still sweet on my tongue
And I'd run (Lord knows I've tried)
But there's no place on Earth
I can hide from the wrong I've done.

Then I saw a mountain and I saw a city
Steadily sinking but suspiciously calm.
It wasn't an end, it wasn't a beginning
But a ceaseless stumbling on.

There, strapped like a watch on my wrist
That's finished with gold but can't tell time!
Was all or what little pleasure exists
Seductive sold and useless mine.

Then I saw a forest grow in the city
And a driftwood wall of birdhouse gourds
And I'm still waiting to meet a girl like my mom
(who's closer to my age)

The true light of my eyes is a Pearl
Equally emptied to equally shine
And all or what little joy in the world
Seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine.

omgwtf wrote:

I love that song, Elena. Brilliant shout.

Awesome, and thanks!

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Oh, the sinking love
On the cloud of unknowing
Every satellite up here is waiting
Waiting to see what the morning brings
May bring sunshine on its wings.

After sundown, before sleeping, I am the worst of me. I am a mess of these
Old themes and the murmur of half-dreams whisper seductively and
Stage scenes.
It’s fear fiction, these visions, caught somewhere between delusion and prophesy.
What I haven’t done, what I’ve wanted to, and what I fear you have
Becomes reality here.

Bright lights in the young night keep to the beat.
A classic party scene, crowded and interesting.
No love, no life, no history.
Just touch, just chemistry, just
A roaring undercurrent simple and sensory.
Young bodies, warm skin, perfect symmetry and
It’s a moment, harmless. It’s energy.
It’s like medicine,
It’s self-discovery.

See, all the secrets I keep, why are they secrets?

It’s only temporary, that fleeting feeling of warmth,
Just a flash before the line gets blurry,
Between a longing for more than what the body wants now and
What the body wants now more than anything.
Was it integrity that kept my hands to myself or
Just the thought of getting too far ahead of you?
Was it that I got too tired of the consequence?
Or was I just scared?

I only know I never wanted to get left behind.

No pauses, not a second guess.
First a swaying then a stumble then a swagger.
They’re just movements towards feeling. It doesn’t matter
Neither hesitates to carry on a kind of energy,
Sweat and block out everything to
Find every aperture and compel the animal parts.
Fan flames, taste fruit, taste bitter fruit.
Just trying to learn how all the wires in the body work.
Just trying to feel it out, it’s like medicine.
Feel the healing in whatever bed they're in.

I want to feel it out. I want to know how it works.
I want to know if it was worth it to worry,
About the ghosts I feared would haunt the memory,
About the damage that I’m sure the fear has done to me now.
I want to know what it is in me that won’t follow through
Those nights the instinct takes a hold of me and pushes too.
Maybe it’s only that I’ve never gotten over you.

Or am I still scared?

It's an idea, someday
In my tears, my dreams
Don't you want to see her proof?
Life that comes of no harm
You and I, you and I and dominoes, the day goes by...

You and I in place
Wasting time on dominoes
A day so dark, so warm
Life that comes of no harm
You and I and dominoes, time goes by...

Fireworks and heat, someday
Hold a shell, a stick or play
Overheard a lark today
Losing when my mind's astray
Don't you want to know with your pretty hair
Stretch out your hand, glad feel,
In an echo for your way.

It's an idea, someday
In my tears, my dreams
Don't you want to see her proof?
Life that comes of no harm
You and I and dominoes, the day goes by...

At times I’ve shouted out unprovoked, at the world and you,
Just to see if the people around me react.
Sometimes I think they’re all acting,
At times I’m scared that I’m acting too. Like,
My movements or stage directions?
Was that a change in topic or a beat in a scene?
Have I been taking my emotional cues from a script I wrote at sixteen?

Maybe I just think about it all so much
That that the fear stays close to all the ghosts I’ve touched.
Makes me question
Was it love or just lust?
Caked in blood or old rust?
I don’t know.

Don’t we remember all the moments we remember the best
Framed in poems and in pictures, sang aloud in refrains?
Does this cycle of pain and disdain for the past
Not work exactly the same?

Maybe it’s just as much about what comes our way as it is how we react.
Just as much about the things that we’ve still got as it is about the things we lack.
I know, we won’t always keep around all we feel we need-
some are fading in frames, some were born to leave-
But if we’re still here, and we still breathe,
At least we’ve still got time to figure it out,
To know what to do,
To know how to feel,
Know the things that I’ve been making up inside my head,
And to know what’s real.
I want to believe that the way I am is just the way it goes.
For the things that came, not the things I chose
to come.
I want to know if I had any control.
I want to know if it’d comfort me.

And if my heart just stops, pack my memories in it-
I want to know all the love I’ve got.
And if my heart just stops, keep me alive for a minute-
I want to know if a curtain drops.

When the night time comes, I start to creep.
I prowl around when you're fast asleep.
I walk around on my tippy toes,
And I get into places that nobody knows.

What a great achievement it was
To get a hotel room this late.
I bet they charge by the hour here,
The kind of place where you should
Bring your own UV ray.

It's not a big problem with me, love
You don't look that hygienic anyway.
I'm only here because I want to
Twist the structure of my average day.

Jane20 wrote:

When the night time comes, I start to creep.
I prowl around when you're fast asleep.
I walk around on my tippy toes,
And I get into places that nobody knows.

The sentiment of my chosen lyrics, too...

Sleepless, untamed
Without a leash on the night
Around me

I wrote a four word letter
Though I'd lived I hadn't been alive.
You held my hem but I traveled blind
Thought I'd sold my soul for something better.
The rain came down, it wet my eyes,
I didn't mind.
It's not me that you've missed.
You heard me when I cried;
"You've seen you've loved a side of me that died"
I remember sunshine
And you were mine.
It's still a little cloudy but there's no rain in sight,
You were mine.

Quick, cause it's changing in the big sky
It's changing in the big sky, now
We're lookin' at the big sky
You never understood me, you never really tried

I'm unclean, a libertine
And every time you vent your spleen
I seem to lose the power of speech
Your slipping slowly from my reach
You grow me like an evergreen
You've never seen the lonely me at all.

Scary's on the wall
Scary's on his way

Watch Where You Spit
I'd advise you wait until it's over
Then you got hit
Well you shoulda known better

And we die young
Faster We Run

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace

You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will live as one

I hung around in your soundtrack,
To mirror all that you've done,
To find the right side of reason,
To kill the three lies for one,
I can see all the cold facts.
I can see through your eyes.
All this talk made no contact.
No matter how hard we tried.

31G, 31G, 31G

I can still hear the footsteps.
I can see only walls.
I slid into your man-traps,
With no hearing at all.
I just see contradiction,
Had to give up the fight,
Just to live in the past tense,
To make believe you were right.

31G, 31G, 31G

3, 5, 0, 1, 2, 5

High on diesel and gasoline,
Psycho for drum machine,
Shaking their bits
To the hits,
Oh!

So profound...

You might sleep, but you'll never dream
Onward! Progress! Or so it seems.
You might laugh, but you'll never smile.
Come on in and waste away awhile.

When dreams of rings of flowers fade and blur
Giving way to that familiar ill
come over and part your soft white curtains
Where I'm waiting for you still
If you'd unlatch the window,
If you'd let me lay there on your floor
If you'd give me another chance,
If you'd forget the pain I caused before
No use in saying how I'm sorry
So I'm trying not to speak
I'll sing in silence, lay beside you
With my face there on your cheek
My stomach swears there's comfort there
In the warmth of the blankets on your bed
My stomach's always been a liar-
I'll believe it's lies again.

I know it's dark here,
You know that I'm scared, too
For some reason right now,
of everything but you.
Right now you're all that I recognize,
You know I came here when I needed your soft voice,
I needed to hear something that sounded like an answer
Now I wait here, and sometimes I get one

It's nothing I'll forget when the moon gets tired
You are stuck to me everyday
Believe in what I am because it's all I have today
And tomorrow who knows where we'll be?
From here I can hardly see a thing
But I will follow anyone who brings me to you
For now, forever, for on and on and on.

Provisionally I, practically alive
Mistook sign for signified
And so since I’ve often cried
To run them off a cliff like
Gadarene swine.
Inside my wardrobe seem anchor bent,
wondering whether we were
somewhat better than
or maybe just better able to pretend
and what better means to our inevitable end?
You know, I don't know if I know
though some, with certainty insist that no certainty exists!
well I'm certain enough of this, in the past 14 years, there's only one girl I've kissed!

In the blistering heat of the Asbury pier,
we sat quiet as monks on the Ferris wheel looking down at the water,
down at the sea,
I asked her;
“Did it ever occur to you a fantasy where you pushed little kids from the tops of the ride?”
Then, she shook her head;
"No"
And I said;
“Oh, neither do I.”
And with my grandma's ring
I went down on one knee
and the subsequent catastrophe
has since haunted me
(like a fiberglass ghost)
asking of my inconveniently
selective memory.

What would I do
Lonely as you
Pleasure or pain
I can't choose

What would I do
Lonely as you
Pleasure or pain
I can't choose

Wake up
You're dreaming
I can't stand your screaming
Drowning out these prayers
Just some words without meaning

Spare all the breaching
My secrets worth keeping
No one understands like I do

Keep out of reach
I'm your leading deletion
Hide behind these masks
Though they still see right through them

Every now and then
You're down and out my friend
Down and out again
But I'm down with you

One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe