KickinCrows

Make me hurt, baby Let me claim you Clutch at our signal And sink your silence Deep into my chest

Dig your nails Into my conscience And wrap your legs Around my thoughts Let me grasp your soul And pull your words Barbed around my heart

I remember you Laying next to me Tired for the sunrise Coming down for the new year

And I remember funny comments A blanket over our silence And hands held lonely For the future

For a future

I remember time stretch Down the road Towards parting ways, again

Smiles drown uncertainties Living in the moment And dying in the embers

The heart knows not what it wants.

It’s hard to fall in love with ideals and dreams. 

And it hurts to accept things as they are.

I locked my lips and threw the key a fair distance,

Maybe not far enough.

And I locked my heart away,

Behind gates, fences and warnings for you and me.

But I swear you’re so nostalgic,

This silence reminds me so

For a second, please get out of my head. 

You occupied my heart just for the warmth, I’m sure.

Otherwise I wouldn’t be out here in the cold.

I am bitter,

I am angry,

I am lost.

I am Pandora’s Box

So please just shut me out.

Please, it’s familiar.

I don’t even see your face

anymore.

Please, it’s familiar.

Trapped within an hour glass

And it’s pouring in here

I could sit here forever

Wondering beyond these walls

But the minutes turn to hours

Until my day is up

Intertwine your arms with mine

We can grow our roots together

Twists of fate anchor my heart 

and keep me grounded

so all I want is for you to grow.

Engrave your dreams into me

and pray we never fall,

As the scars we bare

Don’t force yourself to lift up others,

You tried. 

And they smiled for a few seconds,

As usual.

They say they trust you, that there’s a deep bond

But it’s all talk

Like trying to keep the conversation going,

You pretend it’s all good and true.

For your own sake,

And it’s okay to be selfish,

It’s okay to not know what to say

There is nothing that needs to be said

I left my breathe in July

And burned away with the sun

There is nothing I can say 

That will bring you like a gust of Autumn

O, how hearts change like the seasons

And how thoughts crash with the tide

Liquor is where I drown 

And drug to keep me lost

Hoping that you’d somehow find me 

Under these anchors

Made of empty replies

I could burn my bridges

and watch them crumble

from the tip of my cigarette.

And I would look at you

From the other side of our impasse

To know that there isn’t going back.

This valley we dug ourselves in 

All those years.

All those trials.

I won’t turn to see if you’re watching