Wear your guilt
like shackles round your feet
like a halo in reverse
I can feel
the discomfort in your seat
and in your head it's worse

I'll give you my heart, I'll give you my soul
I'll give you all that I've ever been
And all that I've touched, that's ever touched me
The flesh and the bones of my memories

And if you love me you'd destroy me
If you love me you'd destroy me

I'll give the secrets that no one else knows
Stripping my soul as I strip off my clothes
I'll whisper my sorrows in your ear
I'll give you my blood, my sweat and my tears

We’re so different.
We’re hot and cold, fire and water.
I’m loud, you’re quiet.
I talk, you listen.
I’m crazy, you’re sane, but that’s why this works…
You fill in my missing pieces and I complete you, and I guess that’s why,
despite the questions and the challenges, I still believe in us and I still believe in this…
and as long as we have each other, I think we’ll be alright.
-Katrina Berning

I was praying that you and me might end up together.
It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert,
But I'm holding you closer than most,
Cause you are my heaven.

Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you'll find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding. But there’s also the chance that the person you can count on for a lifetime, the person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself, is the same person who's been standing beside you all along.

“I want to be on the stage with you. You and I could be the next rage to hear the crowd roar, make them want more, and kick the footlights out. I want a love like Johnny and June, rings of fire burning with you. I want to walk the line until the end of time. I want to love you that much, cash it all in, give it all up. And when you’re gone, I want to go too, like Johnny and June.”


He had one of those faces only I could see straight through. I knew it all too well, the nervous blank stare he had when trying to act like he didn’t care. As he walked across the room I slowly realized I was the only one who even noticed. His presence was a minimum to everyone but me, and that was the way it was always going to be.

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second best.

I say that I won't touch you.
But my fingers are liars.
I tell you how I won't hold you.
But my arms are going to hell.
I promise I won't kiss you.
But my lips break it.
I let you know that I won't love you.
But my heart has no conscience.
And no part of me will apologize.

I want to learn to paint so I can paint for you.
I want to learn to sing so I can sing for you.
I want to learn to write songs so they can be about you.
I want to hold art in my hand and control it
just so I can create visual metaphors for your beauty.

As I stand here looking at you, I wonder if there will be a day when I get over your smile. When I let go of the hugs you gave me, a day that I continue to feel. A day when I forget the words you said to me. Whatever happens to us, I know I could never get over, let go of or forget about you.

Sometimes she thinks she's strong, sometimes she thinks she's gone, past the point of feeling anything at all. Sometimes she's sure she's crazy. Sometimes she feels like maybe the only way to survive is to stay angry. And that works fine most of the time, but some things make her cry.. like Bruce Springsteen, silver Sebrings, eggs scrambled hard, home-made birthday cards. A gray sweatshirt over faded jeans with a hole in the pocket where a wallet's supposed to be. Blue sheets on an unmade bed, strong shoulders with a summer tan and rain in the headlights. Yeah, some things make her cry. She didn't shed a tear when he left her here, November 21st of last year. She said she'd be just fine, but maybe she lied cause some things make her cry.. like drive-in movies, oatmeal cookies, 49'ers, all night diners. Blue eyes under a red ball cap, waking up alone at 3AM. Icy streets, New Year's Eve, falling asleep on a brown love seat and runway lights. Yeah, some things make me cry.

Seduce my mind and you can have my body,
Find my soul and i'm yours forever.

"The easeful days, the dreamless nights; the homely round of plain delights; the calm unambitioned mind, the simple stuff of summertime."

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend.

I've never seen a smile that can light the room like yours.
It's simply radiant, I feel more with everyday that goes by.
I watch the clock to make my timing just right.
Would it be okay, would it be okay
if I took your breath away?

Picture this: The rain is pouring outside, and the streetlights just won't give us enough light to see the direction we have to go. And don't let anyone know where we will run to...I need those lips that ignite my bones, and keep my heart afloat.
- - Tear Down the Stars; The Years Gone By

I don't know if you felt that or not.
But it felt like two people kissing
after hours of thinking about it.
It felt like two people talking
after nights of silence.
It felt like two people touching
after weeks of being numb.
It felt like two people facing each other
after months of looking away.
It felt like two people in love
after years of being alone.
And it felt like two people meeting each other,
after an entire lifetime of not meeting each other.

Well how do you do, Private William McBride

Do you mind if I sit here down by your grave side?

And I'll rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,

I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.

I see by your gravestone you were only 19

When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916.

Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean

Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

 ( I think I should staple this to my life)

Did they beat the drum slowly?

Did they sound the fife lowly?

Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down?

Did the bugles sing 'The Last Post' in chorus?

Did the pipes play 'The Flowers o' the Forest'?

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?

In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined

And though you died back in 1916

To that loyal heart are you always 19?

Or are you a stranger without even a name

Forever enshrined behind some glass-pane

In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained

And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame

What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn’t even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both. I had to wonder, but Monkey clearly knew: you could see it, feel it coming off him. I almost envied him that. Almost.
-This Lullaby

And if I had you, all the stars wouldn't fall from the sky
And the moon wouldn't start to cry
There'd be no earthquakes, I'd still make mistakes
If I had you, there'd still be day and night
And I'd still do wrong and right
Blue would still be blue
But things would be easier with you

At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing, where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, is usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we’ve chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them, the people that are still with you at the end of the day - those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

I'll tell you something. This is your one chance.
You're going off to college soon, and this is your
one and only chance to leave. Get out. I don't
care where you go; the midwest, California, hell,
just go. Get out there and see the world. Cause
after college, you're gonna need to have an actual
life. And then life passes you out. Take this chance.
Because I can promise you, you won't get another .
-Elizabeth Coleman

The whole world could change in a minute. Just one kiss could stop it spinning. We could think it through. But I don't want to, if you don't want to. We could keep things just the same. Leave here the way we came, with nothing to lose. But I don't want to, if you don't want to.

I want you, but you’re there and I am here and I can’t help but miss you every second of everyday. I hate not being able to see you whenever I want. I hate not being able to look into your eyes. I hate not being able to get lost in the comfort of your arms. I hate not being able to make you laugh with a silly face. I just hate being apart f It's not my fault that you have got the most endless eyes, and I can't help but fall into them. So I'm not gonna fight it this time, because it's obvious that this is beyond both of us. Because hearts are magnets pulling us together, and out of nowhere our fingers turn to feathers. And all that I want is so simply just to see you.

And I can't help but wonder now Willie McBride

Do all those who lie here know why they died?

Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?

You really believed that this war would end war?

But the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame -

The killing and dying - it was all done in vain.

For Willie McBride, it's all happened again

And again, and again, and again, and again.

Tied up in ancient history
I didnt believe in destiny
I look up you're standing next to me
What a feeling
- "Brighter Than Sunshine" by Aqualung.

Been through a lot in the last year
It's like everything I love is slipping away
And every time I come home
Some more of me it isn't there
I gotta get it together
I need to do things for myself
I've given everything
But still you take more from me
I need some room to breathe
- "Holdin' It Down for the Underground" by A Day to Remember.

"There were many answers Mosca could have given him. She dreamed of a world without the eternal sounds of glass beads being shaken in a sieve and goblins chuckling in the ravines. She dreamed of a world where her best friend did not have feathers and a beak the color of pumpkin peel. She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you were despised for treasuring."

Why don't you stay? I'm down on my knees. I'm so tired of being lonely. Don't I give you what you need? When she calls you to go, there is one thing you should know. We don't have to live this way. Baby, why don't you stay?

The static whisper in my ear,
but in a moment your voice was clear.
"I need some time," you said to me.
That's when I knew you were gonna make me lonely.
I walk awhile before I sleep, count the secrets that I keep.
I hope for more, I know for sure I fall apart before I weep.
I disconnect the telephone, cause I can choose to be alone.
I'll get more done, I'll have some fun,
pretend you're not the only one.

Standing there on a road that leads to anywhere. Like a child left in the wilderness, standing there penniless wanting to be the best. Here's a place where life runs at a different pace, where love is just convenient, none are obedient. And we are subservient.

"I remember when we were just sixteen and dreaming, drinking in the basement, just shouting and screaming, listening to our favorite records all the while thinking, someday, we're gonna be there on stage all singing. Remember breaking hearts and getting hearts broken, lying to our parents about what we were smoking, solving all our problems with bottles and women. Even though we knew we were better without them."

I’m fighting to live and feel alive
But I can’t feel a thing without you by my side

I used to be love drunk, but now I’m hung over
I’ll love you forever, forever is over
We used to kiss all night, now it’s just a bar fight
So don’t call me crying
Say hello to goodbye
Cause just one sip would make me sick
I used to be love drunk, but now I’m hung over
I’ll love you forever, but now it’s over.

Check it out, I wrote it down. In case you ever left us out. And baby you can't fire me 'Cause I quit right now. Oh, you left me with a broken heart. And now I see what I should've from the start. Oh, you left me with nothing but a kiss. And now I'm leaving you with these lips.

You know what I want more than anything in the world right now?
To talk to you, to be with you, this very instant.
I want to sit across from you Indian style
and look into your eyes
and see for myself exactly how they change color in the light.
I want to hold your hand in the palm of mine,
and trace every line with my fingertips.

We've heard all about you. We know you're every move. Cause you're paper thin and it's visible.