Nothing that i wouldn t give

I cannot pretend That I remember how to dream And no one told me That when I became a man The monsters would still be under the bed And the strangers would still seem so strange And the darkness would...

For now this shallow grin means nothing Vacant as I've found that exceptions too run away What good are words When you don't know what is meant? And what good are memories Of times we never spent?...

Within the context of a pseudo-masquerade Masked by the electric hum of melodies The mask's removal feels so far away And so the truest form Indeed the naked form proclaims: The wasted nights spent...

This night's final breath Wraps a man within it's breast Heartbeat stops at last and with it The gathered sigh Regard me a boy Fate lies ahead Only to distance us Everyone so dear Must fall away Pages...

Midcity sunshower sirens are blaring I know it's not pretty but some say it's real Let's down a few coffees and head to the shore Sleep on the sand and hope the tide takes us in If we're unfortunate...

If I had forever I would live this silence I would feed this disease Of which you are the cause You are the cure So hated and yet so sought Penetrating my everything I thought I did I thought I would...

Ensnared by the binds of consuming maturity Insatiable demons of greed tearing from me all that's familiar All that's sacred, all that's good My being bent to the point Where I no longer see that my...

Every mile of this highway (Don't stop driving) Every fading yellow line (Drag me away) Wipes the tears that I stopped making Kills the vision of my pale face Wedged in stillness inside a wooden box I...

Summer again and this world stands still in my heart Beats bare Just like sandpaper It is relief From the cold of the air and the still greater chill within My fate is my face If I make it through...