Strawberry Swing
Coldplay

They were sitting
They were sitting on the Strawberry Swing
Every moment was so precious

They were sitting
They were talking under Strawberry Swing
Everybody was for fighting
Wouldn't wanna waste a thing

Cold, cold water bring me 'round
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Cold, cold water what ya say?
When it's such…
It's such a perfect day
It's such a perfect day

I remember
We were walking up to Strawberry Swing
I can't wait until the morning
Wouldn't wanna change a thing

People moving all the time
Inside a perfectly straight line
Don't you wanna just curve away?
When it's such…
It's such a perfect day
It's such a perfect day

Ahhh...

Now the sky could be blue
I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time

Could be blue
I don’t mind
Without you it’s a waste of time


Could be blue,
Could be gray
Without you I’m just miles away

Could be blue
I don’t mind
Without you it’s a waste of time



Damn you Rachel, I guess I am a strawberry swing person. Definitely not a Violet Hill person. When have I ever fought over anything?

*sigh*

"
I've read your poems, how about you read one of mine.



There was a man who walked the same path everyday,
He hadn't been born to it but he'd chose the way

He'd knowingly made her his Sun,
but while he spinned in circles, she had moved on

His friend stood to the side offering love and help from the start,
But he couldn't hear her, for he was deaf to all but the beating of his broken heart

His pockets were full of this and that, a hanky or so he'd found on the path;
maybe it would lead him to his love or perhaps bring her back

Alas what he was looking for couldn't be found,
For by those feelings she was no longer bound

She had chosen her way and was living once more,
While he crouched lonely, outside the door

He himself had chosen this path,
Like someone choosing to walk on shattered glass

He could fix his heart at any time,
But if this was suggested he'd accuse them of crime

How could he who's love was so pure,
Just give up and put it on the shelf

He never realized this was all about himself

Once in a while he'd turn to his friend,
Who would welcome him and make amends

But soon enough it would show;
He was just using her, just wanted to know.

Know how his love was, so far away
And through his friend perhaps he could say

She would hurt at this for she's believed he cared,
But it seemed he had too many problems to ever be aware

She was friends to both, but the Sun responded to her love and gave it back,
Sometimes double,
He gave nothing at all an only called when in trouble

She'd waited patiently with nothing in return, just trying to make him happy
Maybe then he'd see... but perhaps it was not to be

For he still walks the path and she continues to wait,
Trying to be strong

For she fears what would happen if he were to finally discover he'd been wrong,
And he'd reach out his hand... but she'd be gone."

Samantha, for what it's worth, you're probably the best friend I ever had, so thank you. And you're right, aren't you?

A Comet Appears
The Shins

One hand on this wily comet,
Take a drink just to give me some weight,
Some uber-man I'd make,
I'm barely a vapor

They shone a chlorine light on,
A host of individual sins,
Let's carve my aging face off,
Fetch us a knife,
Start with my eyes,
Down so the lines,
Form a grimacing smile,

Close your eyes to corral a virtue,
Is this fooling anyone else?
Never worked so long and hard,
To cement a failure,

We can blow on our thumbs and posture,
But the lonely are such delicate things,
The wind from a wasp could blow them,
Into the sea,
With stones on their feet,
Lost to the light and the loving we need,

Still to come,
The worst part and you know it,
There is a numbness,
In your heart and it's growing,

With burnt sage and a forest of bygones,
I click my heels,
Get the devils in line,
A list of things I could lay the blame on,
Might give me a way out,

But with each turn,
It stays front and center,
Like a dart stuck square in your eye,
Every post you can hitch your faith on,
Is a pie in the sky,
Chock full of lies,
A tool we devise,
To make sinking stones fly,

And still to come,
The worst part and you know it,
There is a numbness,
In your heart and it's growing.

Kill me. It'd be easier, and make everyone happier.

Since I've managed to fail doing it myself.

Sittin' here
Dreaming of days far from here
late and no particular year oh oh oh
You wore that dress, no the one right there
Dance like you do
Flowers fumble from your hair oh oh

I must confess you're all I dream about
All that I think without
Never have a single doubt
To sing out, whatever it is you're trying to say now
Whatever is on your mind
Sing out whatever it is you're trying to say now
Whatever is on your mind

You're so shy don't know what you're worth
but you're worth so much more
More than any song could implore
Your family's gone so let's start our own
Down along the wood
Turn our house into a home

I must confess you're all I dream about
All that I think without
Never have a single doubt
To sing out, whatever it is you're trying to say now
Whatever is on your mind
Sing out whatever it is you're trying to say now
Whatever is on your mind

Sing out whatever it is you're trying to say now
Whatever is on your mind
Sing out whatever it is you're trying to say now
Whatever is on your mind

I always said to follow your heart, didn't I? Well, what do you do when you don't know what it['s telling you.

Or rather, you know what it's telling you and it's something you cannot do. Something that can never happen.

Rachel's always right, in the end you just have ash and memory. I wonder where love ever went.

Or maybe it's time I stopped running.

Well, love. I guess when it came down to it, you and I really were exactly the same weren't we? We both would sacrifice anything and anyone for our own happiness.

Even each other apparently.

Yeah but nobody searches
Nobody cares somehow
When the loving that you've wasted
Comes raining from a hapless cloud
And I might stop and look upon your face
Disappears in the sweet, sweet gaze
See the living thats surrounds me
Dissipate in a violet blaze

Can't you see what you've done to my heart, and soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies, we slow hands
Put the weights all around yourself
We spies, oh yeah we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself now

I submit my incentive is romance
I watched the pole dance of the stars
We rejoice cause the hurting is so painless
From the distance of passing cars
But I am married to your charms and grace
I just go crazy like the good old days
You makes me want to pick up a guitar
And celebrate the myriad of ways that I love you

Can you see what you've done to my heart, and soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies, yeah we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself
We spies, oh yeah we slow hands
Killer for hire, you know not yourself

We spies, we slow hands
You out the weights all around yourself
We spies, oh yeah we slow hands
We retire like nobody else
We spies, intimate slow hands
Killer for hire you know not yourself
We spies, intimate slow hands
You let the face slap around the self

The past and pending

As someone sets light to the first fire of autumn
we settle down to cut ourselves apart.
Cough and twitch from the news on your face
and some foreign candle burning in your eyes.

Held to the past, too aware of the pending
chill as the dawn breaks and finds us up for sale.
Enter the fog, another low road descending
away from the cold lust, your house and summertime.

Blind to the last cursed affair, pistols and countless lies
a trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running.
Feed till the sun turns into wood, dousing an ancient torch
loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love.

Your name on my cast and my notes on your stay
offer me little but doting on a crime.
We've turned every stone and for all our inventions,
in matters of love loss, we've no recourse at all.

Blind to the last cursed affair, pistols and countless lies
a trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running.
Feed till the sun turns into wood, dousing an ancient torch
loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love.

Til Kingdom Come

Still my heart and hold my tongue
I feel my time
My time has come
Let me in
Unlock the door
I never felt this way before

And the wheel just keeps on turning
The drummer begins to drum
I don’t know which way I’m going
I don’t know which way I’ve come

Hold my head inside your hands
I need someone who understands
I need someone, someone who hears
For you I’ve waited all these years

For you I’d wait 'til kingdom come
Until my day, my day is done
And say you'll come and set me free
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me

In your tears and in your blood
In your fire and in your flood
I hear you laugh, I heard you sing
I wouldn’t change a single thing
And the wheels just keep on turning
The drummers begin to drum
I don’t know which way I’m going
I don’t know what I’ve become

For you I’d wait 'til kingdom come
Until my days, my days are done
And say you'll come and set me free
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me

That's Okay
The Hush Sound

You were a child who was made of glass
You carried a black heart passed down from your dad
If somebody loved you, they'd tell you by now
We all turn away when you're down

You want to go back to where you felt safe
To hear your brother's laughter,
See your mother's face
Your childhood home is just powder white bones
And you'll never find your way back

And when you're gone, will they say your name?
And when you're gone, will they love you the same?
If not, that's okay.
If not, that's okay.

You are broken and callow
Cautious and safe
You are a boundless and beauty
With fright in your face
Until someone loves you,
I'll keep you safe
But like them, I will give you away

And when you're gone, will they say your name?
And when you're gone, will they love you the same?
If not, that's okay.

And when you're gone, will they say your name?
And when you're gone, will they love you the same?
Oh, when you're gone, we won't say your word
But you know that's okay.
Don't you know that's okay?

The artist they would always call you,
But you could never dream now could you?
It was always I who perceived,
You who fell away, who couldn't see

No, no…that wasn't it,
You just couldn't give chase.

Bound up in there heres and whys,
In the dos and don't, goods and bads,
Just go and live, leave the rest behind.
All that matters is; happy or sad.

Oh, how I loved you;
Now to my shame
But our worlds simply;
Weren't the same
You called me foolish,
I called you a heartless wretch,
And in the end I lost my heart
(And my best friend!)
All in one fell swoop

The past; being what it is
Has a funny tendency to stick
Around when you want it gone
And remind you of what you did.

I promised you I'd be what you needed,
And as I promised, nothing I have become,
(though, I must protest, it's rather lonely)

But now…now love, you have ripped apart the cast,
And this time…this time,
It shall be I who will write the script
(with a cast more amenable to what I do and say
Who can use their hearts and chase their dreams
Just as you wished you could
Just as I wish you could…)

So perhaps this shall be goodbye, or perhaps we'll meet again,
Maybe you'll grace me with a talk and a glass of gin,
Once we're old and grayed and lived over our lives,
I'll be here, you'll be there,
And maybe then, we can find the middle.

Or maybe I'll find a fate more akin
To that poor old lad Mercutio

one last glance from a taxi cab
images scar my mind
four weeks felt like years
since your full attention was all mine
the night was young and so were we
talked about life, God, death, and your family
didn't want any promises
just my undivided honesty

and *you sang
oh, oh, things are gonna change now for the better
oh, oh, things are gonna change oh they're gonna change

I am the patron saint of lost causes
a fraction of who I once believed (change)
only a matter of time
opinions I will try and rewrite
if life had background music,
playing your song,
I've got to be honest, I tried to escape you
but the orchestra plays on,

and they sang,
oh, oh, things are gonna change now for the better
oh, oh, things are gonna change

[Chorus 2x:]
hands like secrets are the hardest thing to keep from you
lines and phrases like knives your words can cut me through
dismantle me down, (repair) you dismantle me, you dismantle me

give me time to prove
to prove I want the rest of yours (prelude)
call this a prelude to a lifetime of you,
it's not that I hang on every word,
I hang myself on what you mean,
its not that I keep hanging on,
I'm never letting go,

[Chorus 2x]

[Bridge:]
save me from myself
save me from myself
Help me!
save me from myself
save me from myself

oh, oh, things are gonna change now for the better
oh, oh, things are gonna change

[Chorus 4x]

"If you could of never met me would you of had it that way?"

No. Never. You may never love me, but without loving you, where would I be?

Take what you will, what you will
And leave. Could you kill, could you kill me
If the world was on fire
and nothing was left but hope or desire
And take all that I could require, is this love?
Or am I on the floor over-desperate?
Hold hands streaming of blood again?
And then take full weight of me
Guard my dreams, figure this out,
It's me on my own. Helpless, hurting, hell.
Will you stay strong as you promised?
Cause I'm stranded and bare.
Meanness is washed up and all that I have
is God. Take this and all,
Then grace takes me to a place
Of the father you never had
Ripping and breaking and tearing apart
This is not heaven
This is my hell.

Oh yeah. actually wrote a poem too... It's for my friend sam, she wanted compensation fro a favor xD. So here it is...

Footsteps in the Snow

Walking softly through the snow,
Whitest, white, purest floe
Through it I walk, quite alone,
In life, in snow, in home

From above I see a flake, It lands
Slowly, slowly upon my hand,
Choosing me and no other,
How I love that little snowflake,
White as white, light as a feather


Slowly the footsteps fade from the snow,
And I know it must soon fade,
I twiddle away at my soul,
Until I, too fade


And no one will ever know…
No one would ever know




And how many girls can reasonably love one guy before it gets ridiculous? Seriously. Sheesh.

wish I could eat the salt off of your lost faded lips

We can cap the old times, make playing only logical harm
We can cap the old lines, make playing that nothing else will change
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
She can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
Oh, she's bad

But It's different now that I'm poor and aging. I'll never see this face again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck


We can find new ways of living make playing only logical harm
And we can top the old times, claim-making that nothing else will change
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
She can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
Oh, she's bad

It's different now that I'm poor and aging, I'll never see this place again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck
But it's different now that I'm poor and aging, I'll never see this place again
And you go stabbing yourself in the neck

It's in the way that she poses, it's in the things that she puts in my head
Her stories are boring and stuff, she's always calling my bluff
She puts, she puts the weights into my little heart
And she gets in my room and she takes it apart
She puts the weights into my little heart
I said she puts the weights into my little heart

She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away

It's in the way that she walks
Her heaven is never enough
She puts the weights in my heart
She puts, oh she puts the weights into my little heart

She Is
The Fray

Do not get me wrong I cannot wait for you to come home
For now you're not here and I'm not there, it's like we're on our own
To figure it out, consider how to find a place to stand
Instead of walking away and instead of nowhere to land

This is gonna to break me clean in two
This is gonna to bring me close to you

She is everything I need that I never knew I wanted
She is everything I want that I never knew I needed
(2x)

It's all up in the air and we stand still to see what comes down
I don't know where it is, I don't know when, but I want you around
When it falls into place with you and I, we go from if to when
Your side and mine are both behind it's indication

This is gonna bring me clarity
This'll take the heart right out of me

She is everything I need that I never knew I wanted
She is everything I want that I never knew I needed
(2x)

This is gonna bring me to my knees
I just wanna hold you close to me

She is everything I need that I never knew I wanted
She is everything I want that I never knew I needed
(2x)

She is everything I needed
She is everything


No Amy, I doubt you could understand. But it is when we are weakest that we are strongest. And when you have nothing, anything is possible, is it not? Perhaps one day you'll understand. I hope your clarity comes with much less pain involved. I'm not sure even I understand it. But I know what I've been told to do, and I'm doing it as well as I can, as stupid as it seems. In humbling me, he proved that he knew better than I, and I the word says he wants what best for me. I'm sorry it has to be like this. It's just the way it is. I have no power to change your feelings for me then I do to change hers for me. I'm sorry. Truly, I am. But life rarely moves the way we'd like, and trust me. I'd like very much to be gone from here. But whenever I try to leave, I disgust myself and find myself looking to God. Who leads me back here. I don't know why. I wish I could get you all to understand. I don't fucking want this. I really don't. She probably thinks I'm obsessed and crazy, you pity me, Sam thinks I'm misguided. It's not the way it was supposed to be. This wasn't how my life was supposed to be. I was supposed to love the girl who loved me. Well guess what, shit happens. I'm sorry to you all. I'm sorry Nicole has to trreat our church like a plague just because I'm there, I'm sorry That Sam has to deal with me constantly. I'm sorry Rachelcouldn't fix everything while trying to fix nothing. I'm sorry everyone has to deal with all of this. I'm sorry most of all for you Amy, who has to know how I have felt for so long.

But. God has a plan, doesn't he? I don't know what, but I'm here for a reason and I know what he wants me to do, but why. I simply can't fathom it. Is there still yet more for me to learn from all this? I don't understand.

I'm sorry I'm not as omnipotent as you all want me to be. Book, numbers, ideas... These are all things I understand. Tactics, logic, manipulation are all my bread and butter. People, Hearts, love? These are not the things I was made for. So why are they the things I'm stuck dealing with. You simply can't understand. No one can understand. I'm so sorry to both of you. Why is it that I only manage to truly hurt the people I truly love? Why? Dammit. This isn't helping. This can't be how the story ends, can it?

Wine Red

The Hush Sound

Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
It hung heavy on the tree above your head

This chaos, this calamity, this garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me; I'll set you up against the stars

Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive

Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
And there is discord in the garden tonight

The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied

I cut the arrow from your neck
Stretched you beneath the tree
Among the roots and baby's breath
I covered us with silver leaves

Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive

The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied

The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied

The sea is wine red (Gloria, we lied)
This is the death of beauty (we lied, this is the time and place)
The doves have died (Gloria, we lied)
The lovers have lied (this is the time and place)

Take me down to where you think I belong.
You can't rescue me, you ain't that strong.
You don't know no better,
I'm not gonna tell you any better.
Can you turn this pale water to wine?
If you can do that, I think we'll be fine.
But you can't raise a sinner.
And it's not me, but honesty, that's died.

Blurring lines between love and sin.
Can't tell where you stop and where I begin.
Your body's sending questions to answers
You can't give, or can you give?

If you throw me a line, I'll only drag you in,
This isn't New York City and the ice is thin.
Keep your eyes open up all night,
I'll be gone by the moment, it strikes daylight.
Believe in fate and now you think their lies.
I never meant to hurt a soul alive.
I'm still searching for what you can't give,
The further I wander, the less I know what it is.

Blurring lines between love and sin.
Can't tell where you stop and where I begin.
My body's sending promises that I cannot keep.

Well we are blurring lines between love and sin.
Can't where you stop and where I begin.
Your body's sending questions to answers,
You can't give, or can you give?

Blurring lines between love and sin.
Can't tell where you stop and where I begin.
My body's sending promises that I cannot keep.

Well we are blurring lines between love and sin.
Can't tell where you stop and where I begin.
Your body's sending questions to answers,
You can't give or can you give?

Blurring lines between love and sin.
Can't tell where you stop and where I begin.
My body's sending promises that I cannot keep.

Well we are blurring lines between love and sin.
Can't tell where you stop and where I begin.
Your body's sending questions to answers,
You can't give or can you give.


I'm sorry Amy, but I'm sure you know what this means.

"You're a silly little man, you know that?"

Slap.

The Staff tore into Albireo's back once more, then the Phase slammed the hardwood into the small of his back. The sound of the air rushing out of his lungs was all Albireo could hear. The strangely serene face of Emeria's corpse the only thing he could see.

I let all this happen. It's all my fault, it's all..

Slap.

The thought got cut off as Albireo once again gasped in pain. The blindfolded eyes of Fidchell entered his field of vision, staring at him, through him, into him, all while not staring at all.

"You destroyed all of my brethren, you escaped from their tomb. It would seem that you saved all your world, wouldn't it? You even had yourself a woman."

He spit on Emeria, and Albireo had to fight the impulse to reach out and smack him. THe spittle marred the otherwise perfect features, those eyes that would never look into his heart again, the lips that would never mock or joke with him, the hair that he would never see flow in the breeze again...

"Did you think you could fight fate? Did you honestly think I was that weak, so pliable? It's inescapable, even for.."

Slap. Groan.

"...Heroes."
The last word was voiced with such hatred, such contempt, that Albireo could almost sympathize with the man, after all, he had lost everything. Almost, but not quite.

"And now. Now you'll pay, just like she did."

Slam. Sigh. Oblivion.