Xerxes
Til' the end We'll be riding through this night Because the words we have to say will always fall on deaf ears We'll swallow our suggestions as our bodies disappear into the world's broken heart Kings...
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I can hear your voice, its like a siren repeating. "These walls are waterlogged with the weight of a childhood, The secrets we keep in the drawers of our dressers. We slept in beds that were...
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It was a headache that woke me up, a motor running in the garage, The knife left in the median where west met east and I walked between. The lights left off in my room, and the empty bottle clanking...
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Disconnected from the gravel in the alleys that taught our throats to sing, I miss these streets and how they used to hold me like the bedroom in the suburbs where I used to sleep. This city built...
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When you hit the water, I hardly knew. When the sunlight changed, through the waves, you say, there was a song it sang. I still say I could see what you saw that day. How the lights were so different,...
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There's a gentle wind catching me.
You're calling my name and it feels something like home.
I can feel the quickened pulse of an open door,
the calm of a quiet bed.
I can feel your arms pulling me in.
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This is what i am This is what i've become Gritting my teeth Broken down and flooded Tired of waking up With blood on my hands Lift my head to a red dawn Keeping my fear bottled up Beneath that ground...
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And I sweat out your fever dream, but it's heat's still painted on me. I wear you like a sketch of an incision, a cut not deep enough to bleed. If there's an honest answer out there, its that I've...
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Im sleeping through the day again, with the light from your window making shapes of your face on the wall. And I don't wish you were here, but I'm noticing with no defense a light that doesn't go off....
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There's a heartbeat in everything, and I'm holding my hands to the wall. The feeling won't come easy but it's the fire underneath that I want. And I can feel the flames crawling their way up the sides...
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