Not Forgotten, The Forgiven

Where is your heart
Does it beat with the steps of others around you
Where is your heart
Is it cold and hollow, alone until they've found you
Where is your heart
Are you the embodiment of love
Where is your heart
Does it give you the power to rise above

Here is my heart
I hand it to you, still beating from within my chest
Here is my heart
Though there are many like it, mine to give, unlike the rest
Here is my heart
I will not pretend it is the strongest
Here is my heart
But I will leave for coasts where tides are at their longest

For joy does not live here, among memories of tears
I know your moments, mine too, do applaud each other
Happiness and heartache will be one, facing fears
In hopes together we stand until, one day I find another

There is nothing here but stale air, the breeze that I choke down
Refreshing breaths, I'll rise above the clouds
I realize it's ours, the one I know, this town
But I also know it's time to make them proud

Hope Breathes

I'll sing always in all ways, never swinging for sound
Lungs clear, no more fear, of judgement to be found
Where it was that lie betrayed, I can understand
For at one time I said I tried, to make her hold my hand
One single statement, underground, broke my future hold
I'm not acoustic, will not lose it, cut it off my soul

Death defying, am not trying, to become a band
Never listen, not my mission, now I take a stand
What I say within those walls, means nothing to me
I speak and walk away from all, until I am set free
There is no trust for any man, or woman in the halls
A key so tightly bound to hell for winters and for falls

Break the chain and float away, I'll scream it under breath
If choice were there for here or there, I'd rather face my death
I've never tried, nor will my eyes be bound to steel rings
There's nothing I could do but say, I'll watch but never bring
Enjoy the life you lead with love above the rest of hope
I understand the fears you don't, for all the ways to cope

I've seen such anger, rage and screams, reminded by a sound
Unfaithful hatred, stood untainted, make this not be found
My life has led me far from such a daunting memory
For all my instrumental skills are bound to melody
My voice, now here for lungs are clear, again for many years
Again, I place my hand upon your own and try to dry your tears

I am a voice, that is my choice, never any more
Perhaps some time my lungs will share their fluid with a bore
No matter what, that air within is all I want to feel
For I have seen the anger within swinging arms, it's real
This calm and happy life I lead will always be the same
I'll softly speak to keep them strong, then laugh and smile at games

Born Today

A statement to make while awake, finally I say it
I will not impress them, not best them, won't okay it
I'm not looking for love, no lust or hearts, keep it from me
I will keep from the moments, burdens kept from being free
My one desire is freedom from the shit you pile upon my heart
The pieces of what you claim to be wanted but only tear me apart

I won't spend time with people who have fallen to weakness
Strength is in a pure body, the mind, veins free of bleekness
Yogurt life is kept from all, yes it's delicious, written long ago
Long since lost computers and harddrives let go
A period of silence for the ones who claim to hear
I'd rather wind up dead than fill my lungs with burning fear

My one wish, this wish I place upon the stone
Leave me be, all those who've seen me, left alone
The decade I have had, I want no more, none at all
What you claim is wasted, I want it gone, all to fall
I am trying to be civil with the point I hope to paint
If fifteen years should disappear, the future I'd await

If ever lost, the decade tossed, to winds of burning sand
I should still be the man I see, on memory's demand
What years have done to graces sung, my fingers and my feet
I can't recall the simplest task and now I taste defeat
There once was dancing, all enchanting, nothing better still
I'm better without your compassion, chains and lack of thrill

Is life an excerise in who can guess the best for one
While knowing only you, yourselves and others having fun
You must be clearly understood in knowing what is right
I know not what the meaning is in anything til night
Then I sit and wonder for a short and passing while
As dreams and memories then flood, it seems in single file

You've broken this once mended heart, still now I say good day
I don't want anything I knew, whether known then or today
Tomorrow is my only friend, my only memory
For it is only written by the fates who yet decree
My dreams are all I follow and it's hard enough to catch
When the moments all seem hollow, Mephistopheles does catch

Set Still Too Long

A day of rest is best unless you're me
I never want to stop until I'm free
I won't be setting down another time
Until you've heard the meaning in my rhyme
I'm not going to do a think until I am
For the meaning in my soul is that it's damned

You're dedicated, I'm honest, who's worse
Is existence like this meaningful or cursed
When fact is stated truly where I stand
Making no defiant closed demands
I say what really matters to my heart
You truly lie and tear this hope apart

Destroy relationships I've never had
You know there isn't much to call a fad
Love for all and yes, most of all, her
I cannot let this go at all for sure
It cannot hurt so much to only care
The love we have but cannot share

Do not destroy yourself with falsely layered hate
Allow a life to lead itself through fate
You'll lose each other if you still persist
For all this moment will not be dismissed
There is no hate within me, just concern
You must stay true to life or it will burn

A Song In The Dark

Study a single song, no it's wrong
Imagine a world in the heartwork of an album
Never impress, do your best to stress, don't break
Your voice is everything but fake, we all make mistakes
Apologies accepted by the lot, not our message, we were taught
The world thought what could have been bought

The least expensive instrument, a voice, also a choice
Less time destroying, just enjoying, warm your throat, keep it moist
Make the best decisions for your body, yield to nobody
Pray you keep your lungs for they embody
All the character and function of a tune, beneath the moon
Twilight singing in the streets, no more seats, midnight to noon

Dance the most you can and take my hand, no more demands
I understand there is no will to fold and be that man
A smile on every face I see, that will is me
I will not break this vow to thee, my mother, she
Could always count on one thing only from her son, only one
Attempt to lift their spirits, every one, when hope is done