hi everyone...ive written song lyrics and poetry for about 6 years now...its my "therapy" in a way and i use it as a release of emotions...its amazing what a pen,paper and a heavy heart can achieve!

i hope you like it.
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Back to

the legacy you left,
paves the way for future love in vain
I have the map,
But I won’t give it out again

Oh could move
The earth by myself back then
I didn’t ask for fire
To keep – me warm

You’re the one
Who knows the way
And you’re the one
Who owns me
Yeah you’re the spark
The fire in the flame
I still hold for you
And I always
Oh I always….

Chorus:
I come back to
Back to
Yeah I always come back to you
I come back to
Hmm back to
I always come back to – you

Verse 2:
Oh ferocious force
Lead me to the place where he lays
Patience ran its course
I can no – longer bear to wait
And what you were
And what I will never be
You didn’t find in her
Yet it became too late to see

And I move
And I move on through life
And I prove
And I prove
A thousand times
That its you
Its you
Its always you ….

Chorus:
I come back to
Back to
Yeah I always come back to you
I come back to
Oh back to
Yeah I always come back to you

Cos you’re the spark
The fire in the flame
I still hold for you
And I always..
Yeah

(repeat chorus)
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i think you hold me down,
i know its hard to believe
but im telling you truthfully-
what im making up now,
you let me go-
and its hard to make sense of,
but love does that to you-
it chills to the bone

(chorus)

and oooh
the wind will take me higher
you will sit down here
and the sun will shine down
on you

verse 2:

oh love
its a hard situation
to be in-its lovely
****s you up brings you down
you are the frown
that i blame my misery on
you cos its easier for me
to have the benefit of the doubt.

and oooh
the stars are much wilder and
the moon in the sky is
full to bursting tonight
and oohh
im living and learning
this lesson is painful
but im growing inside...

you called me round
so i knocked on your window
but you asked me to come back
at a convinient time-
im so confused,
you told me i was forward
but im naked in your head
undressed by your eyes

ohh you
are a frightning familiar
im diagnosed with inertia
and im burning inside
and i'm
standing right here
why'd you pull me so close
and run run a mile.
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Pulling Me Under.

You feel at times
you could die
Just leave this life behind
Step over your shadow to the other side
Try to hold on
Be strong
Remember the days of the calm before the storm
(hmmm yeah yeah)

You and me
We could see
A way to get back to
The honesty
Sweet release set me free - yeah!

(chorus)
this life is pulling me under
this pain this lightning this thunder
this world so hard to believe in
i can't breathe-i can't breathe-oh
this life is pulling me under
this shame i hide undercover
these shoes too hard to walk in
i can't breathe i can't breathe
when its pulling me underneath.

(guitar solo -ad-libs)

(verse 2)
tell me why
why do i cry
endless tears of hopeless misery (ohhh yeah yeah)
help me please
let me see
the light before i fall to the bottom
twist and turn to the point of no return

take me
shake me from the years of broken dreams
hold me
control me
don't let me fall -
give up on it all all

(chorus)

pulling me under
pulling me under now-
pulling me under
pulling me under now babe
just sucking me under
its pulling me under under under under!
pulling me underneath.
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*and this is a poem i wrote the other night.
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i just had a shower,tried to get under
the hot water sprays-
and wash,wash away
some odour stain.
pity that the water doesn't flow where'd id
really like it to go.
like through my veins.
if it could only slip inside
maybe trickle out some pain.

i bet they'll throw a party
because i shaved my legs today -see im-
lazy with my outerness
body is temple oh what a phrase!
musta skipped that page in the guidebook
y'know the one they give you as you grow.
adult to embryo-and back again.
it was a possibilty i rushed straight to the chapter
bout' how to survive that sharp tang i often get
when i know my heart is breaking.
seems i read it wrong though. its an organ thats having the hardest time.
lungs sometimes catch the breaths that come cascading down my throat.
that can hurt too at times.

dented exterior as far as
asthetic awareness goes.
im pretty happy with the phantom inside.
talking to myself often gets me by wish time would fly.
conversations repeating over and over. tiresome company.

i think CNN will feature
as breaking news. my first time. sexually.
bodies entwined-stiffled screams in our eyes.
merciless hunger and starving desire...fire below.
tells the mind to hold onto
nothing more than this-
physical bliss.

id rather run to paper. PEN.
in my teeth.
words of arousal so swiftly seep
and lurking below-suckling at the volcano down there
is the inevitable climax of the way it feels
to let a little piece of my soul
pitter patter away from this human being
into the english language.
poetry in delicious motion
lyrical masturbation.


So drift in your sleepy hollow
Lay your head on a concrete pillow
dream with one eye open-
but watch your back.
incase a monster is hiding behind the doors
of your closet.
all those superficial clothes hung so
neatly in a row.
fashion police will just let you go.
without a warning.

My friend listen its a changeable disguise you wear.
goes with the seasons...drops with the fall leaves.
out like a sneeze. off with the breeze.

have sweet sweet dreams
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Hi Firefli... I started doing the same thing a few years ago. Found/find it very helpful. Have you ever put your lyrics to music? I find that "song lyrics" sometimes don't read very well (at least in my case). Your song lyrics (as opposed to your poetry I think) seem like they would go very well with music.
Take care and thanks for sharing!
John

thanks very much...
oh i never meant for the poem to go with music..its just like a spoken word piece.

yeah ive tried putting my lyrics to music by singing acappella into a dictaphone. i can hear how i want it to sound in my head-its just so frustrating not being able to get it out lol.

id love to read your stuff sometime.
thanks again