Manipulation

You're keeping it locked on your lips,

And you're thinking nobody knows it.

The only safety is distance,

So you're pushing them, pushing them.

They hang onto every word you say,

But there's not one truth you make.

You're the master of these games,

And you're playing them, playing them.

They don't know that you're hanging by a thread.

Treading the water, but drowning instead.

Secrets and lies waking up from your bed.

Now you're walking on airs without a care out in the public eye,

But you used and abused the ones who saved you, when the darkest hour was near behind .

With just a snap of your finger, your servants linger eager in manipulation,

But I'm learning how with what I know now not to give into your instigation.

You burned me and broke me before my eyes but I know now.

It's really not intelligent

How you're burning so many bridges.

A lover who merely quits

Is not for sale, not for sale.

I'm standing with a loaded hand,

And you just pulled the trigger.

You don't have long to stand

Cause you're gonna fall, gonna fall.

You  don't know that you're hanging by a thread.

Treading the water, but drowning instead.

Secrets and lies waking up from your bed.

Now you're walking on airs without a care out in the public eye,

But you used and abused the ones who saved you, when the darkest hour was near behind .

With just a snap of your finger, your servants linger eager in manipulation,

But I'm learning how with what I know now not to give into your instigation.

You burned me and broke me before my eyes but I know now.

I have a little secret:

I know, I know what you did.

I know, I know what you did.

You burned and broke me down,

But I stand stronger now.

Cause I know, I know what you did.

I know, I know what you did.

I know, I know what you did.

And I like the taste of revenge.

Now you're walking on airs without a care out in the public eye,

But you used and abused the ones who saved you, when the darkest hour was near behind .

With just a snap of your finger, your servants linger eager in manipulation,

But I'm learning how with what I know now not to give into your instigation.

You burned me and broke me before my eyes but

I like the taste of revenge

Scars and Half a Heart

You held yourself up so high, trying to win a game.

Little did you know, you're the only one who played.

Now you're falling back, falling further into your mind.

You're all alone to live with your own crime.

You made your moves and burned your bridges,

Learned to deal with the cuts and the stitches.

You played the wild card in so many different cases.

The cases all talked and learned of your true traces.

Not one by one, but not all together, they left you.

You begged and pleaded, saying there was another truth.

It was no use. There's a difference of what you say and do.

Sitting lonely in the middle of the night, know what you got to do.

You're trying to get back into their good graces.

They're no longer enemies but friendly faces.

You're patching up wounds that have split open.

Will they ever heal again? The bandage's broken.

Choosing your alliances with articulation,

But you got caught in another manipulation.

Relentlessly, tried to be the one to have all the control.

When you look around, you're the one who's all alone.

You're still sitting here, staring at an empty wall

With scars and half a heart from it all.

You're still sitting here, staring at a bunch of scars

With only a patched up, lonely heart.

Summer Roses

We were drunk on summer love and high from heat,

Two kids against the world on a solidified team.

You pulled me into something so deep that I drowned.

I look back and maybe I could regret this now.

Your love became soft as thorns until I bled

Just a white rose stained out of innocence.

I've moved forward into a different world since.

I'm what you have made me, hardened from your pretense.

Did you ever think I'd become like this?

I've come so far. The mirror shows another reflection

that you couldn’t even recognize.

This rose froze into a different disguise.

Look at me now living the life you never thought.

Look at me now an innocent lost.

Don’t worry though, I’ve found another.

He’ll never know the real me you uncovered.

I hang on tight just so he won’t let go

In fear of the hurt and pain of an ending blow.

But this is nice and kind and caring, adored.

Every time I think of our time I hold tight just a little more.

We have to know we can never repeat the past.

Summer fades and roses never last.

I’m holding onto him and it’s so pretty,

Nothing’s ever beautiful anymore in pity.

The reflection shines a new outlook through.

We harden our ways as days show truth.

Thank you for this tainted rose.

Thank you for the new world I know.

There’s so much left unsaid and unforgiven.

I’ll never know all in your mind you’ve hidden.

It was beautiful but time doesn’t regress.

I’m holding it, hoping you don’t forget.

Stranger

I've got you wrapped around my finger.

I've sealed the letter, you've done the deed.

I'm holding the gun but you'll pull the trigger.

You'd take out any enemy just for me.

I wasn't always this way, you gotta believe.

I've just become what they've made me.

Now I'm crossing over lines like there's no limit.

I'm playing black cards to get to the finish.

I'll powder my lips, take your hand on my hips

Sway back and forth til you're under my spell.

Be prepared to dance with danger.

You're walking thin lines for the price a stranger.

Drink you up with my tantalizing eyes

Get lost in the sea of my innocent disguise

I'll look like the rose but be the thorn underneath

The beautiful colors are merely evil's sheath

My lies breath glittered truths to what I say.

I'll wrap you around and around again.

It's manipulation, now you're playing my game.

You’re sure to follow me down to deep depths

You can cry for mercy but there’s none left.

I’ll powder my lips, take your hand on my hips

Sway back and forth til you're under my spell.

Be prepared to dance with danger.

You're walking thin lines for the price a stranger.

Woods

We're living in different lives,

Grown up and out of sights.

Falling into the same puzzle

Pattern but the trouble's

We can't seem to fit this time.

And we're still forcing it.

We're not the people we knew then,

Coming out of the woods of innocence.

Standing on a desert rain cloud

Your face is a beautiful mirage now.

I feel you’re falling out.

You’re standing on the other side

Of this glass, your hand on mine.

We don’t breathe each other’s air,

Suffocating on hopes and despair.

Are you feeling it?

We’ll play pretend and move on.

There’s always one who’s strong.

Taking it softer in translation,

Hanging on threads of displacement.

Who is strong?

Maybe it’s only the weak who survive.

We’ve grown up, easier out of sights.

We played alone in those woods.

Now we’ll never be back, never could.

But never doesn’t last.

Fate and All Things in Reason

You said it in words as soft as sleep,

But they cut like a knife the way I keep

Playing them over inside of my head,

Hoping and wishing of others instead.

Awaken from a dreamland unattained.

We both knew it would end this way.

Too long, I stood calling from so far.

Kept my distance, but the fall was hard.

We're dancing in stardust alone most nights.

We were really always alone in those strides.

We took one step closer but so far away.

Tantalus never got the fruit he craved.

I believe in fate and all things in reason.

We'll meet again in future seasons,

If all ends well and it's meant to be.

It's not goodbye for you and me.

Waves

 The waves wash over the sands of the beach, tickling the grains of salt and turning over the shells.  It’s warm today - both in the water and on the land.  The sun is yellow like the lemonade in my hand.  Nothing can go wrong.

Suddenly a gray cloud swims over the sun and a breeze moves in.  I hold onto my floppy sun-hat.  The birds are flying back into the woods, but I can’t seem to follow.  Before I know it, the waves are making towers towards the air.  They fall down with a slap to the ground.  I’m falling in tune with them.

Out in the middle, lightening kisses the water.  It moves closer and closer with its fraternal twin, thunder, following close behind.  A sweet kiss like death.

The sky is black like night even though it’s 2pm.  It swallows me up and pulls me even closer.  I am one with my surroundings.  I am the clouds flying overhead.  The hard waves slapping down on the fragile earth.  I am the dark sky, only lighting up with sudden bolts of electricity.  The thunder, shouting at the loudest possible volume.  

I am everything and it is me. We are one.  We are what you made me.