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The sunshine, settles in to night skies
White lies, better hidden than black eyes
Crevices, never to be seen like a sunset in scarlet
Scars that stay far deeper than the skin... it's heartless
Can't speak, cat's got the tongue, maybe curiosity'll help that
What if.. Instead of that, it's just left flat
Still lifeless, still truthful, still a speech to be told at a funeral
Still better than the bones in my closet, still death's beautiful
A bouquet filled with black roses
Nights where the only dreams lie in potential motives
Better than the nightmares
All time ends somewhere
Easier to live in pretend immortality
Than risk giving in to the eventuality
As ideas are given birth, they're given death sentences
That's life, it's emphasis on genesis
2. Winter Falls
The night breaks, it all breaks
Shattered glass, mirror state
Shame promises, same regrets
The darkness, in hearts it sets
Same time, the art it sheds
Makes it all back, to the same red
The darkness, it doesn't speak
It merely settles, upon the weak
Finds a pain, makes it deep
'Til if given a peak, you'd leap
Heaps and bounds, to sleeping sounds
Crimson red, all around
Red tulips, couldn't break this
Said it wouldn't be like this
Red to lips, so enticing
Said it wouldn't be, lightning..
Black fades to white
Like the ending of a night
Yet even there, you'd never find
You'd simply grind, forever blind
'Til you descended, to desperation
As if you'd ever find, true elation
In brimstone and broken hearts
Found pleasure, with stolen darts
Curse her name, fuck the shame
Blame the game.. it's all the same
Trapped in here, with four walls
Another winter, in Montreal
How did it get this way
I promised it would never
Find its way here, but now it's..
Off, lost in the darkness
Please, just give me a purpose
Red tulips, couldn't break this
Said it wouldn't be like this
Red to lips, so enticing
Said it wouldn't be, lightning..
I promise it would never..
I promised I would never..
Please, just give me a purpose
Let it settle, be perfect
Let it set, I'll be perfect
There's no hope for salvation
There's no dream for elation
When red tulips couldn't crush this
There's no hope for anything to touch this
Small whimper, must be a 'must be'
Begged for faith, she just said 'trust me'
There's no way to unearth it
There's no way to be perfect
There's no love in my words
Doesn't matter, as if they'll ever be heard
3. Lost
Lost - stuttering, muttering
Blood rang sundering
Wondering, if I'll get to sleep
Or if I'm already asleep
Or if I'm another lost soul in a trash heap
Death's cheap
Life's rich
Poverty kept me on the wrong end of the light switch
Darkness, following, hollowing
Might leave me wallowing
Rather, I'd be drowning
Million pains, million reins, no time to be counting
Crowning, to be placed on a pedestal
As if that's acceptable
There's no way out
There's no end, baby - no doubt
The darkness came
Backwards, without pleasure there's no pain
There's no faith, hope wanes
Cause all the days past, exact same
It's funny, how seven moments turned to seven days
Turned to seven weeks, trapped in the same phase
Same ways, same rays, same gaze, same blaze
Shame the praise that'll be uttered
Trying to redeem action, 'cause it fluttered'
Cause it shuddered, what if I discovered
That just cause it glitters, still comes in different colours
Put my armour in fire and found that it's fool's gold
It's not bold, that's the same type of story to be sold
A phoenix, I clipped the wings
The only way you'll fly is if you taste the winds
The only way you'll reign is if you kill the kings
Pains, some are like no other
Heat from the core barely strains against the breath of more
Spring forth like worms into the petrichor
Chlorine messenger, more fish in the sea
Ten leagues into the downpour
This is where they all go, after they fall
Simply stuck in the same flow
Like rivers, like rivers, snow
4. Smile
Rain-soaked windows
Aquarium glass to a half-dead minnow
The minutes are melting off the clocks
Secondary to the heart he keeps locked in a box
Forgot the key, but knows of a locksmith
If only he could find the combination of words to unlock it
Drowning in letters, too busy shifting characters
Too busy feigning, she wouldn't look through barriers
Daydreaming, lost in the mind that's choosing to lie
Sometimes seems it'd be easy - choosing to die
Cause maybe what's up there is great
Just wanna cut these nightmares
But even the darkest of thoughts
Are easily hidden by a smile
5. Rivers (AKA White)
The only girl I ever loved
Lived with roses in her blood
A bright sky filled with stars
And nothing but that in her eyes
Said it was good, and maybe it'd be ours
Said it was good, like words without lies
Every smile, her hand in mine
It says our dreams have come
There's no worry on the earth
We all find the place we fit
There's no time for rebirth
There's just time to find our place
When the only girl I ever loved
Lived with roses in her blood
It only makes sense to follow suit
But as I spoke, she grew mute
There's no way we could live there again
But if there's a time, I'd make it then
White roses, they all wither
Whether with me or with her
Tossed aside and hand-written - "our dreams have come"
But there's no chance in heartlessness
Like there's no love in mournfulness
There's a way out of the darkness
Even though some days it's the farthest
There's no worry on the earth
We all find the place we fit
There's no time to find rebirth
There's just time to find our place
The bitterness, it'll find the lips
Doesn't matter, there's no eclipse
Wrapped in white I came to find
It's always in a better place, a better time
Maybe one day I will meet
And then I'll say - our dreams have come
But as I live on the earth I find
There's no time to live with those blind
Scurry around with innocence
Because it doesn't ever last
(Your Day Will Come)
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Hopefully you enjoyed! I'd appreciate criticism, but please keep it constructive. I'll probably get another (larger) collection out by April - think of this as an interlude. As a result, it may not be as cohesive (or as quality - I let a few things slide that I wouldn't if it was a bigger project. Also I was sick and didn't wanna keep delaying it >.>).
