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19th April 2011

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my new tumblr is heartofnines

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31st January 2011

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This lightning’s fine
She picks up these tired parts of mine
Who’s carrying you tonight?
She carries me all of mine

Up again, down again, out of your head
When she’s beside you you’re nearly not so dead
Up again, down again, out of your head
When she’s beside you you’re always at your best

This lightning’s fine
She picks up these tired parts of mine
Who’s carrying you tonight?
Every now and then baby
Ain’t it good to be alive?

Up again, down again, out of your head
When she’s beside you you’re nearly not so dead
Up again, down again, out of your head
When she’s beside you you’re always at your best

So a song for the girl

26th January 2011

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good for great

bruises and scrapes, our life’s mistakes are nothing but bad weather.
hope you sneaked in all of my friends just so we could leave together.
the books i won’t read,
the air that i will breathe,
the colors i’d have seen,
i’ll leave these pages in the trees

today, leave good for great
leave sleep for late
leave good for great
leave sleep for late
leave good for great
leave sleep for late
leave good…

so many books that i didn’t read,
but there’s so much air i chose to breathe.
how about the colors that i’ve seen?
so i’ll leave these pages in the trees.
i don’t sit alone, i pick up my phone.
one day we’ll say all that we had.
the beaten path is beaten fast.
i’m practicing hooks and jabs.
i traced a few lines, misread all the signs, slipped many times.
my blood’s still red and i’m just fine.

today, leave good for great
leave sleep for late
leave good for great.
so many books that i didn’t read,
but there’s so much air i chose to breathe.
how about the colors that i’ve seen?

so i’ll leave these pages in the trees.
we sing along, but the notes are wrong
we sing along, through night and dawn

20th January 2011

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I wish I were pretty
I wish I were brave
If I owned this city
Then I’d make it behave

And if I were fearless
Then I’d speak my truth
And the world would hear this
That’s what I wish I’d do, yeah

If my hands could hold them you’d see
I’d take all these secrets in me
And I’d move and mold them to be
Something I’d set free

I want to darken in the skies
Open the floodgates up
I want to change my mind
I want to be enough
I want the water in my eyes
I want to cry until the end of time

I want to let the rain come down
Make a brand new ground
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Make a brand new ground
Let the rain come down tonight

I hold on to worry so tight
It’s safe in here right next to my heart
Who now shouts at the top of her voice
Let me go, let me out, this is not my choice

And I always felt it before
That the world was filled with much more
Than the drowning soul I’ve learned to be
I just need the rain to remind me

I want to darken in the skies
Open the floodgates up
I want to change my mind
I want to be enough
I want the water in my eyes
I want to cry until the end of time

I want to let the rain come down
Make a brand new ground
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Make a brand new ground
Let the rain come down

16th December 2010

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I still don’t understand the attraction of tumblr.  Someone needs to explain it to me.