Cutting Rope

I said I'd never let you go, and I never did.

There were so many times

When I wanted to.

When I could have.

Maybe I should have.

So many people telling me it was okay,

It is part of life,

You have to do it to move on,

You only are hurting yourself

It hurt so bad to keep holding

On to something I couldn't see to the bottom of.

But it would have hurt worse

If I let go.

I don't regret my choice

I don't think it was wrong

In the long run of things

I'm finally content.

cutting your rope would have meant cutting mine too

Oh No. I Taste the Hate.

Music

is a universal language

Shared by you and me 

and everyone

We hear it in our minds

We feel it in our bones

We say it with our lips

We understand it with our hearts

So why is there so much hate

When it moves everyone differently?

When it brings you to tears

And I am left unimpressed

But hear: 

Do not bash the rap because they say whats on their minds

Do not diss the hip-hop soul; they feel it in their bones

Do not hate the rock and roll for playing loud and proud and unashamed

Do not shun the metal gods for being extremely brave

Do not dislike the classical for keeping with the laws

Do not scorn the electronic and the synth for doing something different

Do not despise the country for staying loyal to their roots

Do not trash the pop contemporary for singing what we all know and are

Do not mock the indie or the alternative or the punk or the gothic

Because they all give us something different.

Instead quiet those who

Will rudely and silently jeer at those who actually have talent

And ask them why they are not

on the stage performing.

It's all right not to like certain things but don't force the hate on others

They Break, They Make, They Hold

I will be okay

I hope my voice does not tell you otherwise

These shaking hands of mine

will stay by my side.

I will not force

anything upon you, it's not me

These shaking hands of mine

will not drag you away.

I want to tell you

that those three words are all for you

These shaking hands of mine

will do near anything for you.

Will you take my hand?

Hey! I'm with the band.

Here i am

Stepping out of this fear

Out of this darkness

Into the pounding sway of something...

A song.

I move along

My hands keeping the melody

Across the plain

The beat moves my feet in time

The bass keeps me swaying

I want to act crazy

I want to have fun

The snare like lightning

Cuts into the consistent pounding

The crashing

Making me keep time

Oh! Melodious words

Translate into the hearts of the people

This is why I'm here

I'll help you along.

A final show of what we can do

This is the final note

Gone after this

But forever a song

We are all different. We all contribute something. We are one in this song.

Life, Heart, Soul

I don't want to hide in the closet
Away from the sun
I don't want to feel cold to the touch
And never be able to brush the warmth of your skin


I don't want to cower in fear
And look hungry for life
My own life
To begin

My lungs are breathing
I can't get enough air
My heart is beating
I can't get enough flow


Where are the people that I need?
Where are the ways that I can escape?
Where is up? Where is down?
I need a hand to reach me, pull me out

Broken I'll stand
Completed I'll fall
Put the wind in these collapsed lungs
And life in this empty heart

i stand before you giving you my soul, my all

Fate Understood

'Do you believe in fate?'
She asked
He sat there
Not understanding her words


2 months later
They were so in love
A boy and a girl
Taking on the world


'Will you be mine?'
He asked
She cried there
Joy running down her face


1 year later
They were just married
A man and a woman
Taking on the world


'Will you be there?'
She asked
He nodded
Never wanting to leave his bride


5 years later
They had three kids
The man and woman
Taking on the world


'Do you believe in fate?'
He asked
She understood
When the doctors told them the diagnosis


65 years later
They were in love
They were married
They had a loving family


He understood those words from years ago
Now that he lived them.
She cried and smiled and nodded
As they talked about life together.


4 weeks later
They were together again
A silent promise
Never to leave each other's side.

Sea Song

There was a day

I was washed out to sea

And with the waves hitting my back

I heard the most beautiful melody

And with water in my ears

And a song in my soul

I sang the song back to the wind

So you could find out where I am

And the waves crashed over my song

And the the wind carried it away wrong

And the sand buried it in castles

Away from my reach
 

Yet you still heard me
And floated out to meet me
And we embraced on the bottom of the sea
With the fish as our witnesses

the sun still smiles on you and me and our song