Wait For The Rain

This is part of a song with little revision.


One side to every story, just one side is seen
Kaleidoscopes dance with images no one's ever seen
Here--the railing's rusted. {hold tight}
Clear--a harmless endeavour
For the emotions of those left behind

But whose tire marks will they find?
No obstructions, but those of my mind
I won't hurt them this way
I'll find slicker pavement someday

Anywhere, anytime: just so the sun won't shine on me
{There will be no note to leave}
Accident they will only believe

::Wait for the rain
Wait for the rain
*overlapping:* You promised to dance with me in the rain


Chalk lines;
Will they be outlines--
Or faded memories of childhood playtime(s)?
That the rain came and washed away;
Colorful portraits riddled with mistakes

My Heart Can't Beat Fast Enough

We stay together we're both going down
Six feet under the ground
We stay together and we're both going down, d-down, down, down

I gave you a chance, I lent you my heart
But your pulse hasn't strengthened at all
I'll give you my hand, but you can't have my heart
It's done you no good at all

I'm enabling you--something I swore I'd never do
In enabling you, I'm making you weaker still
I'm pulling my heart away
I'm turning away, are you turning too?
I tried everything I… could

We stay together we're both going down
Six feet under the ground
We stay together and we're both going down, d-down, down, down

'Cause
My heart can't beat fast enough to live for…
To live for both of us
My heart can't beat fast enough to live for…
To live for both of us
{To live for both of us
To live for both of us…}

If it's weakness so be it--I'm tired
--Pulse is falling down, falling down
Almost flatline
It's just a matter of... time
**The following are some more rough-draft ideas to incorporate**

I said take your time--
And you took all my time
That I didn't even know I had
How can I lie
How can I pretend that
I am not responsible for you

Co-dependant, co-dependant {you have chosen this too}
I am responsible for you and myself too

Co-dependant, co-dependant {recovery for you and I requires}

*chorus?*
Oh, how I miss you

I Am Not So Fortunate

The mirror may have disappeared
Tommy, you still remember:
Will they go away?
Will they go away like Mommy?
Perhaps they never leave, I think
I am not so fortunate
Fairy tales speak of werewolves.
That hideous beast with an
Involuntary, momentary transformation.

The image may have disappeared
Your skin, it still remembers:
Welts must slowly fade away
But they will not disappear like Mommy
Mommy will always come back, so I think
I am not so fortunate
I have seen a wretched werewolf
That hideous beast which leaves one
With a terrible, painful memory.

The Way Memories Work

I can honestly say I know nothing of it--
Yet, stay a long while
You will know nothing but it
This is the way memories
Disappear; like our child in the closet, who
So often, through breaks and knotholes
Allures the seeker with giggles and
Heavy breathing; while phantoms occupy
The empty spaces, the lack of history
Haunting: blank faces and silences encases
No--alludes--this lack of substance.
It alludes.