We should treat tonight like it's our last night together
We can drink and dance and sing and laugh
Tell each other the secrets we always wanted to tell
Show each other exactly the kind of person we are, guiltily
And tell each other the people the want to become
Share our dreams for the future
About how different it has become from when we were kids
And we'll stay up all night even when we're too tired to even talk anymore
We'll just lie on the ground, all of us holding hands and listening to the music
One of us will tell a bad story and we'll laugh all over again at the horribleness of it
We should treat tonight like it's our last night together
Because one of these days, it will be
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
For All The People You Hate
Nobody is the villain in their own life
They may hate and despise themselves, but they aren't the root of all evil, at least in their own opinion
Everyone is just trying to get by and do right by themselves
Remember that the next time you can't be bothered with someone
When you write them off as hopeless and worthless
That deep down, they're a person as flawed and complex and sad and self involved as you
And all anyone ever needs is just a little more understanding
They may hate and despise themselves, but they aren't the root of all evil, at least in their own opinion
Everyone is just trying to get by and do right by themselves
Remember that the next time you can't be bothered with someone
When you write them off as hopeless and worthless
That deep down, they're a person as flawed and complex and sad and self involved as you
And all anyone ever needs is just a little more understanding
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Lost Love
There are friends you come upon in life that you both just understand, from that moment on you'll be close
There's no reasoning to it
With some people it takes weeks and months of intense contact and conversation to let your guard down
To trust them with your deep dark thoughts
The secrets you know if you let them out too soon, they'd be scared off
Usually it takes a significant amount of time before your mind is even ready to admit that this is a person you really truly care about
But every once in awhile you run into a person
Where after only meeting a few times
You spend a long night admitting all your fears of life
How you can't stand how your boyfriend loves at you instead of with youHow alone and scared you are of the future and where you are and where you're going even though you're not alone and you think you have a plan
You talk about your secret dreams you don't tell other people about
It's important to figure out who these people are in your life
And to hold them close to you
Finding people that love and understand you just the way you are is near impossible
People who do so right away are never worth letting go
There's no reasoning to it
With some people it takes weeks and months of intense contact and conversation to let your guard down
To trust them with your deep dark thoughts
The secrets you know if you let them out too soon, they'd be scared off
Usually it takes a significant amount of time before your mind is even ready to admit that this is a person you really truly care about
But every once in awhile you run into a person
Where after only meeting a few times
You spend a long night admitting all your fears of life
How you can't stand how your boyfriend loves at you instead of with youHow alone and scared you are of the future and where you are and where you're going even though you're not alone and you think you have a plan
You talk about your secret dreams you don't tell other people about
It's important to figure out who these people are in your life
And to hold them close to you
Finding people that love and understand you just the way you are is near impossible
People who do so right away are never worth letting go
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Don't Die Loving Nobody
There are people sitting at home in their favourite spot on their couch
Watching TV and not really paying attention to it
Instead they're thinking about you
They're thinking about how they never think about you enough
They never call or write or try to see you
But they love you all the same
And are very glad for the little time you already spent together
They're thinking about how sad they are that they never get to see you anymore
Then a voice will call out from another room
They'll be pulled from that thought
And they won't think about it again for many months
Perhaps even years
And one day you'll move even farther away
And they'll think of you even less
But you will live on entangled in their lives
Every time they drink that beer you taught them to love
Or they hear that song you used to belt out no matter who else was around
Or every time they have to explain the scuff mark on their car to anyone who asks
Even if you're the loneliest person in the world right now
Don't die loving nobody
Watching TV and not really paying attention to it
Instead they're thinking about you
They're thinking about how they never think about you enough
They never call or write or try to see you
But they love you all the same
And are very glad for the little time you already spent together
They're thinking about how sad they are that they never get to see you anymore
Then a voice will call out from another room
They'll be pulled from that thought
And they won't think about it again for many months
Perhaps even years
And one day you'll move even farther away
And they'll think of you even less
But you will live on entangled in their lives
Every time they drink that beer you taught them to love
Or they hear that song you used to belt out no matter who else was around
Or every time they have to explain the scuff mark on their car to anyone who asks
Even if you're the loneliest person in the world right now
Don't die loving nobody
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