Reds & Greens

The suns setting behind the city's silhouette
Your face lit up with lights from the screen
it's not a secret I feel you're falling into me
A silent landing, I'd say, welcome
You've been falling for quite some time
The exit closer than sentences we piece together
and I can only wish to find our escape
Is it fate?
This way we stumbled upon our loneliness
Finding ourselves making sense
Now you're shaking your head no
Because my footsteps inch towards the backlit moon
Quiet waves will punctuate, and I'll get back to you soon
But the unpaved streets call my name
Assuming I should hop a few blocks more
Erase the smeared markings I scraped on your bathroom floor
Now you're looking around and i'm trying to be strong
If I'm wrong, let my absence fade into our favorite song
and I promise to think of you when that song carries on
Is it fate?
How our scrambled words fit together?
That our mistakes somehow made this slip feel better?
Is it fate that I find you to be the most beautiful
In the morning when the suns just peaking through
and the little hairs on your shoulder glow
I almost loved you, you know

Sometimes

sometimes
every day
i see you through you
and I wonder how this could be
how you could not see
that this love is bottled in glass
how long will this last?
and I've got so much time
to sit and watch you dance
holding hands, romance
but sometimes
everyday
i think about you
smiling and holding on tight
sometimes you're just right
a nibble, a bite
a wrinkle in the sheets at night
it happens
you're not even my friend
and i see right through you
looking through me
there is no future to believe
and no past to photograph
we're just a laugh
we're just a laugh
two bottles on the shelf in the back
sometimes
everyday
i think about you moving away
and I can't say that I'll miss you
enough to ask you to stay
it happens
we just met
through irony and loneliness
it will pass
we'll see through this empty past
find a way to make love smash
shatter like glass
and sometimes
on these lust filled nights
i think about
how long this will last

Fatal Demands

Maybe this is just me thinking
but I think it is time I go home
Secrets I've failed to reveal, are real
but not real enough to let you get that close to me
and I'm sorry that I've structured walls
With framed images of us holding hands
it was a mistake and I know you'll understand
You said you needed to know why
when my eyes failed to navigate into your arms
it was a fatal crash and I bit my tongue but I mean't no harm
I drove with all intentions to love you but honey I just can't
and I am guilty of confusion, dishonesty and awkward silence
I'm sorry I've never given you a straight answer
I just smiled and held your hand
it was a mistake and I know you'll understand
And it's been such a time of pleasure, it almost perfectly aligned
but when I look at you I don't see me and it's more fatal to keep trying
It's only fair that I'd be lonely a while, in a watchtower out at sea
You deserve the real thing, not a framed photograph of what was not meant to be
We'll un-mend to be mended again, I am so sorry it has come to this demand
I so much loved curling my lips up to you but it was a mistake
I'm going home
I know you'll understand

Geometric

When there is a time for words
Silence rolls it's tumble weed
on a desolate street
where it belongs
Where do we belong, here?
and why do you know my name?
I feel those eyes watching time
Every step I make is geometric
and you wait for that mistake
I'll make when I fall
for every pleading word you say.

Now when the truth rolls in
I'll lead every sentence and begin
Roll out a blue print
With a map, where do we belong?
By the shape of our palms
You've got it all wrong
because I can never be her
and I can never be the one
Yet, here we are
Filling voids with sweet mistakes
and I know your name
and every geometric angle of your heart
No room for two
So I tip-toe around like so
Careful not to spill my love
Where ever we go
Until you go
Where you belong

Flames

How could I have doubted you
could be the one for me?
I thought I saw a ghost
but that was just me
I realize now, if its not too late
I'd like to build you a castle
and keep you from leaving today

I would throw myself under a train
once those words fall from your tongue
How could I have doubted
that you could be the one
We swallowed the night and watched our home burn
I blamed you but you said not a word
and in your silence flames praised our home
I knew right then you did not burn it alone

How could I have doubted you
could be the one for me?
I thought I saw a ghost
but that was just me
I realize now, if its not too late
I'd like to build you a castle
and keep you from leaving today

I would fight in every war
Once your empty eyes look away
How could I have doubted you
could be the one for me?
I stand beside our river bed
Waiting and collecting stones to throw
count the ripples until you decide it's time to go
I wish I could've been everything
but a ghost, they never show
You have been the one for me
How could I have not known?

Home

And it starts
the cracks in the cement, the falling sky
our eyes keep glowing, now down we go
follow us if you want to survive
where we meet
you'll find is where you we're headed
and far, far from home
you're not alone
so if you change your mind
sleepy child in your lacy crib
it's coming, it's coming on
soon it's coming home

Here We Are, Where Are We?

Where can we rest?
When does this ground stop it's motion?
Now you're holding my hand
I'm in your bed
There is a song stuck in my head
but I can't sing it aloud
I find out how
You breath in numbers when you sleep
This humors me and you find a way in
Hey, how have you been?
before I knew you?
What was the last note you played?
Is it okay if I stayed?
Take a look outside, the sun is rising
I am smiling, can you tell I am hiding?
The wrinkles in your sheets I am happy to meet
as long as you're next to me
as long as you're next to me
as long as your
body is close to mine, just this time
but you should probably know
there is a crack in your ceiling
and I can't help but thinking
if the crack in mine gives you the same feeling
because this whole city is falling apart
and I find beauty in the shape it makes
the risk we're willing to take
the loud noises beyond the window gate
the way it puts you to sleep
and our palms meet
touching neck to feet
it's all beautiful to me
the lines from the light through your window
projected like paper on the wall
I write to you sincerely
Were you here all along?
p.s. Will we last through this song? Do you already know?
If so, let me go
If so, wait a few moments if you're willing
So I can paint the crack on your ceiling
I find it surprisingly appealing
I'll frame it perfectly, hang it next to mine
can you walk me home now please,
if you don't mind?