Surrender

Maybe I’m dead,Maybe I’m afraid of love,But you could be just enough.I leave come the light,So we have but the hours of the night.And that’s alright.-I The Mighty We’ve come a long, long way together.Through the hard times and the good.I have to celebrate you, baby.I have to praise you like I should.-Fatboy Slim Out […]

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Baltimore

I don’t want to believe, when we’re olderThat you won’t remember my name anymore. And I don’t want to believe when we’re sober,That the love we found ran out the night before.And I don’t want to believe this is over, So I send my heart to Baltimore.-Hodera I wish I knew no astronomy when stars […]

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Freedom

‘Cause as long as my eyes still seeAs long as my heart still beatsAs long as I’m alive, I’m free.I got good intentions, I don’t need your blessings.Yeah, I’m already blessed, yeah,I’m already blessed and free.-Kane Brown The difference between the drowning man and one who treads water isn’t the fact of the water, but […]

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Leaves

There’s concrete below meAnd a sky above, so blue.People ruin people,I don’t want to ruin you. I’m just a sickness and you seem to be the cure. How much can a southern girl, honestly endure? And I’m finally gone from Austin.You’ve finally settled down.With a man who didn’t move as quick,As the trains that roll […]

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Life Isn’t Fair

Achilles,Achilles,Achilles come down,Won’t you get up off,Get up off the roof? Where you go, I’m goingSo jump and I’m jumping.Since there is no me, without you.-Gangs of Youth Life isn’t fair.-Dad The title to this one hits hard for me. For as long as I can remember, my father kept a sign stating “Life Isn’t […]

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Stars

“Lately, I’ve been,I’ve been losing sleep.Dreaming about the thingsThat we could be.But baby,I’ve been, I’ve been praying hard.Said no more counting dollars,We’ll be counting stars.”-OneRepublic “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”-Samuel Beckett I’m feeling a certain way tonight. The air is recycled and there is the distant hum of the engine all around me. […]

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Expectations

“She’s gonna save me, call me babyRun her hands through my hair.She’ll know me crazy, soothe me dailyBetter yet, she wouldn’t care.We’ll steal her Lexus, be detectives Ride ’round, picking up clues.We’ll name our children, Jackie and WilsonRaise ’em on rhythm and blues.”-Hozier Sometimes I draw some kind of idea or thought about writing from […]

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Swan Songs

“You don’t have to worry All your worried days are gone This will be our year Took a long time to come.” – The Zombies A new year and I’m reminded of how each one feels towards the end. Even the best of people make well intentions and declare proudly, “This is it – this […]

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Relationships

Relationships are hard. When I was younger, I thought they would be easier. That if you loved something hard enough, it would love you back just the same. As I aged, I realized life and love aren’t quite like that. That first love of yours, where you give yourself completely, tends to be the one […]

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