when the leaves have changed, when the world around you starts to grow deranged, the faces that you see are looking strange, and your principles have all been rearranged, when only tears remain, in the residue the ruins of your brain. start looking for a way you can explain, though the reasons should’ve made themselves […]
Vandalized - Not Too Colored Perfect
Well, it’s late at night. There’s nobody around. Just the sounds of the cars Upon the asphalt ground. It’s the waiting time, When the hours grow still. I gaze on through the glass Inside my windowsill. Though I know that you must be Somewhere in this world, In this place where, at birth, You and […]
She said come along with me, I’ve got offerings for you my sweet, sweet boy she promised warmth too, but I knew better her words broke hot against my neck and tasting the sweet, sweet numb of regret on my lips I filled my pockets and closed the door and I tasted all I’d left […]
Clean - Not Too Colored Perfect
Am I pretty enough for you now that my ribs show through? With a little makeup I can look brand new, but can I be pretty enough for you? Fill me with secrets and I’ll never tell fatten me up, and I’ll feed you well you can polish me perfectly and I’ll shine pristine but […]
Miracals - Not Too Colored Perfect
They built a hero out of expectations and what a hopeless hero was he with sticks for legs he shook when the wind blew, even slightly and he welcomed the smiles, he welcomed the applause and he hoped that they’d never forget just who they thought he was they dressed him up in rich man […]
You’re smiling but I sense fear when you say, abandon ship and there’s land near And the water is deep around my knees, but still I don’t believe. At another time I would have followed you anywhere, but not now You said I was a shackle to you, well you always say the most violent […]
Wait Up - Not Too Colored Perfect
I recall your kisses and they tasted just like medicine I put all the pieces back together in my head Seems so obvious now how fragile a thing we had And all the leaves were on the ground that fall, the leaves were all around And you fed me stories and you polished up your […]
I remember crowds where you stand alone right now I remember celebrations But now my reign has run all the color from all my decorations And I’m fine; I’m just a little lonely So can I ride on your back for a time? Oh, the seasons change so quickly these days And while the rest […]
I’ve spent more than my share on temptations Trying to cool my swollen tongue Gorged myself on all that free good will and left the others none What I wear like church clothes, you wear just like jewelry All the simple things you revel in, they just suffocate me And I don’t know anymore, wish […]
I am held together by clothes pins and tension, a wealth of odds and ends I’m dazzling like the neon street signs hiccuping off and on again all night long I’ve got magazine friends and enough jealousy to lose them But I know this has all been said before I shed what escape my fiction […]
