โง GO FARTHER IN LIGHTNESS STARTERS //ย PART 2
taken from the gang of youthsโ album of the same name. feel free to adapt as you wish.
โ you're scaring us and all of us, some of us love you. it's not much but there's proof. โ
โ remember your virtue: redemption lies plainly in truth. โ
โ the self is not so weightless, nor whole and unbroken. โ
โ remember the pact of our youth. โ
โ where you go, I'm going, so jump and I'm jumping, since there is no me without you. โ
โ hurt and grieve but don't suffer alone. engage with the pain as a motive. โ
โ today of all days, see how the most dangerous thing is to love, how you will heal and you'll rise above. โ
โ you are absent of cause or excuse. โ
โ you crave the applause yet hate the attentionโ then miss it, your act is a ruse. โ
โ it's a pointless resistance for you. โ
โ [ name ], just put down the bottle. don't listen to what you've consumed.ย โ
โ and there may not be meaning, so find one and seize it.ย โ
โ feel your breath course frankly below and see life as a worthy opponent. โ
โ you want the acclaim, the mother of mothers, more poignant than fame or the taste of another. โ
โ you will not be more than a rat in the gutter. โ
โ you asked for my counsel, I gave you my thoughts.ย โ
โ can you hear me, [ name ]ย ? I'm talking to youย ! โ
โ throw yourself into the unknown with pace and a fury defiant. clothe yourself in beauty untold and see life as a means to a triumph. โ
โ you'll rise above, crowned by an overture bold and beyond. โ
โ ah, it's more courageous to overcome. โ
โ I thought I had a real understanding then of loss but I didn't know a thing 'til you were gone. โ
โ I used to wanna be important, now I just wanna be alive and without fear. โ
โ it's okay to feel unbelievably lost. โ
โ you got to persevere. โ
โ I live hard 'cause I am scared that I won't mean anything. โ
โ you want someone to want you for who you are. โ
โ it's no secret that with matters of the heart, I'm irrational and rarely ever start. โ
โ the world's dark and often inhumane. โ
โ we all decided the best way to fight it was drink wine, dance here and pray and make love that lasts with a vengeance. โ
โ you can stay afraid, or slit the throat of fear and be brave. โ
โ you wanted to fight for a causeโ then go out and fall in love ! โ
โ don't stop believing in truth and grace in the grievance. โ
โ you give me a good reason to be heartsick again. to be here, to be strong. โ
โ I've been losing my way in the weirdest of moments and the stupidest of ways. โ
โ there will be no years of silence in the shadow of regret. I won't let it so betray me, though my soul got used to it.ย โ
โ I will look at love as more than just an instrument of pain.ย โ
โ I will not spend the years depleted of my willingness to try. it won't hurt this way forever, it ain't worth the overtime. โ
โ lay me down and kiss me deeply, show me everything I missed. โ
โ I let bad love betray me once. โ
โ I wanna be loved, I wanna be whole again. โ
โ and I just ask you to be patient if you'll have me still. โ
โ it's just a feeling of distance akin to a feeling of loss of love. โ
โ I am grieving the loss of myself with frightening malaise. โ
โ just stand in the darkness and laugh with your heel on its throat. โ
โ not everything means something, honey: so say the unsayable, say the most human of things. โ
โ if everything is temporary I will bear the unbearable, terrible triteness of being. โ
โ I'm not so assured nor unusually strong or outstandingly brave. โ
โ won't you fear me tonight ? โ
โ there's nothing that holy in loving like drunk kids love. โ
โ let's drink the best wine now, while we're strong and we are proud. โ
โ it's weird and unnerving, forsaking my old life now, 'cause this is a burden I can't seem to do without. โ
โ I wanna be nearer, I wanna be close behind. โ
โ our time is short. โ
โ I could almost take a whole life to disclose how I feel about the now. โ
โ but we've will to carry on, transcend with our scars and contusions. โ
โ I know how lame it sounds, but I'm glad I became more human. โ
โ do not let this one end before you emerge as the winner. โ
โ let me love with a vengeance. โย
โ you wanna feel absolved tonight. โ ย ย
โย it's okay not to be so alright. but don't be alone. โย
โ say what you want with blood and bone and stick a finger in their faces when they say you're overblown ! โ ย ย













