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Lonely Fire She left him scared Cold by a fire With too much inside And sparks leapt higher She left him alone Numb and afeared With emotions roaring Heart's love seared He was the loser The mans to blame Loved him and left him With pain and the flame He was the failure Or so she said Failed at everything Now empty and dead Yet the fire still burns Its raging divides His head and heart Opposing sides Yet the fire still glows Fed by his pain Someday he'll know Her loss is his gain

You left me alone in the shadow of love Dragged me down To feel your pain To dry your tears For your own gain Now I\'m down here Alone and forgotten You left me afraid a soul half rotten Running away Out of the question To turn you aside An invaluable lesson Had I but known You're not the answer I am a sad fool A worthless romancer My heart was tricked Thinking forever I found the truth It lies in never

The clock mourned the midnight hour A lonely babe screamed for its mother The clock knew nothing of the babe It could explain nothing but the hour The babe could not understand the clock It could only exclaim for its absent mother The mother lay dying in the streets below Saddened by the loss of herself from the child The child found its thumb in the cold crib And fell back into sleep of innocent youth The babe would never know of its mother's demise The mother would not know the small babe died The clock didn't care and still it chimes Mourning the midnight hours

How I yearn for endless summer In the winter of my youth The nights of absent slumber Leave me searching for my truth Remembering infinite summer days And their nights that never came Desiring only to get away From all things constantly the same Now changes occur much too often I wish that time would slow down But the hours march me to the coffin And hammer me into the ground

He never laughs   never cries   never lives   never dies what is he I do not know but I know of a place where he shall go and were he will go the dead will awake and the living's hearts he will break death advances in his footsteps demons rise from his shadow what is he what is he what is he I do not know He does not smile   does not frown   does not preen   does not drown what is he I do not know but I know of a place where he will go and were he will go the dead will awake and the living's hearts he will break death advances in his footsteps demons rise from his shadow what is he what is he what is he I do not

For every tear you cried For every lie you lied For every step you walked For every word you talked For every moment of every day I'll wish to god that you'd have stayed I'll wish to go you'd never died I've wished to god and been denied To keep you here beside me To hold me to guide me To clean me up to brush me off To smile when I needed cheer I wish to god that you were here But god enjoyed those tears you cried And god loved those lies you lied He enjoyed the miles you walked Reviled in the evil you did talk And in every moment of every day He knew himself you could not stay He wished every day for your death And bask

the magical pellets of soul stopping authority        that remind  and remember us, as the swallowing and therefore        God was there, and Jesus too           they let us wear the skins of tigers        and heard from us, stories of the sun          how it does not bend to our will. guilty, she lifted up her mini-skirt in the bathroom and tucked the thin lining of summer into her skin        God and Jesus whisper to each other,         making words to describe it        each thing said  slowly waiting for the bus             a bumper sticker: watching a blue toyota          God, does not bless a country have to ge