posted April 02, 2004 08:11 PM         

you move within me
within abandon
tragic and sweet
warm and uncaged
you send a message
fight and retreat
i'm wanting to bleed myself away
into the fear... you're my companion
we're not to face this moment
again
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you're a paper flower decorated heart
too soft for whispers to wonder where you are
and you burn without flame in me
a midnight ocean searching for the dawn
through stolen moments you feel before they're gone
and you're calling my name in dreams

i don't know what i know
don't know what to do
i struggle for the words
that somehow get me through

eyes of moonlight and sugared ruby lips
the stars surround you in a sentimental bliss
and your soul's a fountain in me
an endless sunrise for endless aching need
a portrait of the endless ways you long to be
how do you make it last
endlessly
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A serenade
I'm uninspired, unafraid
A cutaway
paper doll under the blade
Hard to think I'll ever change

Or open up again
call myself a friend
take another breath
and play the make pretend

A figurine
I'm intoxicated in a dream
Quarantined
locked away and never seen
I play the game
drawl a smile on a windowpane
I masquerade
another face in the parade
And I don't think I'll ever change