The boy you love has gone away
And you're left holding together your broken heart.
When the emptiness doesn't make any sense
I'll guard you from the looming dark.

When every razor seems to sing your name
Hope stripped by pain, left naked, empty, stark--
You think only one thing can wash it away
I will chase after you into the dark.

I'll follow you
Into the recesses of your heart.
I'll follow you
Into the bleeding dark
You can run, you can fly
You can escape in the high
But I will follow you
Into the dark.

Standing on the edge of pain, not love
Every breathtaking kiss left its bruised mark.
No othe rman can cleanse you free of memory
I'll still be standing here when it gets dark.

Anything that promises relief
Sleeves and smiles concealing the promises' scar.
Laughter building walls one break away from tears.
I'll be the one standing against the dark.

I'll follow you
Into the recesses of your heart.
I'll follow you
Into the bleeding dark
You can run, you can fly
You can escape in the high
But I will follow you
Into the dark.

Breathing in the windswept words
Promising rest, like a swim in waters hiding sharks.
Letting it all go plunging into the deep
I will not cease to fight your oncoming dark.

I'll follow you
As you're bleeding out his name
I know what it's like
When you'd sell your soul for a moment with no pain.

But darling don't you let go
There is still hope for the broken heart.
When you have a hard time trying to believe
I will follow you into the dark.

I will follow you......
And I will bring you back.

(Princess Bride!! :p Who's speaking when is kinda messed up....but eh, for some weird reason, I'm leaving it this way.)

If death cannot stop true love
Then what can?
Only a woman.
Only a man.

Why didn't you wait for me?
Well...you were dead.
I will always come for you.
I will never doubt again.

So kiss me in the moonlight
Kiss me as we face our death
Kiss me over and over till the whole night's passed
And kiss me over again.

Captured by pirates, searching for gold
I sailed the seven seas.
But nothing I found was more precious
Than what waited at home for me.

No bloodhounds can track our love
Though the strength of it stain the skies above.
I'd said I'd always come for you.
Why didn't you trust in our love?

Didn't you believe me when I vowed?
Can you move through the pain that bears down this time?

My darling, you're here, you're truly alive.
If you want I can fly.

I never knew, when you were gone, you would come again.
The angels and demons were so jealous today
Coz our love pulled you back from the gates of hell
And now you're mine, forever, to stay.

So kiss me in the moonlight
Kiss me as we face our death
Kiss me over and over till the whole night's passed
And kiss me over again.

(Watched Despicable Me? Great movie. This is based off of one of that movie's best lines.)

Woke up in a play
Only to find the play's my life.
Found myself the bad guy
No, that's wrong. I'm so miscast.

But I'm not charming, suave, or handsome
I don't try to save the world from fear.
If my friends are all I love, and those are few,
What else am I left to be?

I never really believed
That a guy like me could have a girl like you.
I never knew a world like that
Where I could be so lucky as to have you.

Shoulda known it's not my lot to get the girl
Ride off into a crimson sky---
Yeah, that's what you never get
When you're a bad guy.

You were breathtaking, perfect, like out of a song--
So beautiful I couldn't believe
When you touched me, wanted to be where I was--
That you wanted to be with me.

And I loved you like only a broken man could
Lost, hopeless, suddenly handed a gem.
Gave you all that I had in me, and more--
And yet
It still wasn't good enough.

I never really believed
That a guy like me could have a girl like you.
I never knew a world like that
Where I could be so lucky as to have you.

Shoulda known it's not my lot to get the girl
Ride off into a crimson sky---
Yeah, that's what you never get
When you're a bad guy.

I think Love struck me deaf, mute, or blind
For somehow refusing to see
That those blissful months were doomed to end
That from the start, we weren't meant to be.

Coz no beauty, no love, could change me
Make me other than who I am.
And that became quite bluntly clear
I wasn't good enough to be your man.

I never really believed
That a guy like me could have a girl like you.
I never knew a world like that
Where I could be so lucky as to have you.

Shoulda known it's not my lot to get the girl
Ride off into a crimson sky---
Yeah, that's what you never get
When you're the bad guy.

When you're the bad guy
You never save those in your world.
You don't fly off into the sunset
And
You definitely don't get the girl.

Eking out this song
Like an aching violin.
Straining to hear a note, just one
That might distantly promise again.

With love written on her breasts
Seeping down into her heart.
Dripping to cipher her arms in a vow
More permanent than blood.

His lips traced warm love
On the parchment of her skin
In the sweet symphony of crashing waves
That opened up and sucked her in.

Drowning in quiet euphoria
Of the delicious taste of pain
And love shown so carefully
In the warmth of him spelling her name.

Strained in terror against the heartbeat
Of two hearts that had beat as one.
Separating in distinct agony
Though two is better than one.

The ache beats so consistently
As she drifts so high above.
The blood staining his memory
With love written on her arms.

Rainbow pebbles falling high
Staining every heart of stone.
Once impressionable, trusting, soft
Once scarred too few to let well alone.

Colors piercing blinded eyes
Too broken to see beyond this hell.
Damned for letting that heart of stone reach out
I learned my lesson well.

Thinking about knives and rain
And jumping out of airplanes.
Cursing silently at God above
The futility of love.

Cottage of ivy and rock
Haunted, empty, like this heart.
Thin golden lines of promise
Shattered like the fool you are.

Blackened sorrow, darkening sky
Thunder sounding endlessly in a barrier-free storm
Like the waves thundering on high
I don't know me anymore.

Thinking about knives and rain
And jumping out of airplanes.
Cursing silently at God above
The futility of love.

Flying to escape but they hunt you down
With a bloodthirsty desire to drive out love.
Look where it got you before. We're being kind.
Tear out with dripping teeth, bloodhounds.

If my body is dying I can't feel my heart
The pain distracts my self-destructing mind.
Damned to fly when I know I will fall
Damned to live without you by my side.

Parachutes full of the holes of hope
Airplanes traveling to the gates of God.
Hurtling toward space and heaven or hell
This life was only just a shell.

I'm out of my mind
I'm over you now
I can see the clouds
Stained red like blood.

Don't search me out here
Look beyond, look above.
Left my haunted heart behind
Yes.
I'm over you now.

Practically fell into your heart
Caught us both unawares from the start.
Knocked the breath right out of me
And your touch kept me from breathing for months.

Your quirky sense of humor, how it'd fit with mine
Like you'd always been in my life.
And I couldn't stand playing it cool or acting all coy
Like it didn't mean a thing that I could rightfully call you mine.

And now I know
I don't wanna live if it's not with you.
When I wake up to face this life
I want it to be you by my side.
You touched my heart and made it new
And now since you've been gone
I realize you took a piece of me away
I can't face this without your love.

Our romance like the pages of a book
The first time I woke up to your face
You'd chase me around to tickle me, torment me
The breathless way you'd taste.

Your lips on my skin, breathing me in
The way you'd catch my eye.
Keep your gaze locked on mine for eternity
I remember when you were still mine.

And now I know
I don't wanna live if it's not with you.
When I wake up to face this life
I want it to be you by my side.
You touched my heart and made it new
And now since you've been gone
I realize you took a piece of me away
I can't face this without your love.

Now I know
I don't wanna let this go.
I will fight this too.
I will see this through.

I will do it for you.

Nothing short of you is enough.
I will not give up till I win you back.

When he held me
The whole world grew silent and stopped to stare
Jealous of our peace
Of what we had learned to share.

When he loved me
Like teaching a child his own name
Every touch of his hands a stroke of fire
Love's sweetest endless pain.

When he drew me
For that moment time stopped its syncope
If you offered me heaven I'd laugh
I already had it in his arms surrounding me.

When he kissed me
Romeo had nothin' on his lips
Intertwined in a symphony
Our lives beginning in that kiss.

When he touched me
I knew I'd never be more safe
Even if storms and trials were bearing down
As the lightning crackled with rain.

When he left me
Like a musician struck deaf.
No scar can ever form from the bleeding that flowed
After he left.

It all used to be so happy
Like I could never ask for anything more.
Every time, every touch, seared onto my body
Deep within my heart.

When he loved me.

(A sequel to a song I wrote once for a friend.)

They all told me I'd get over it
Been there, done that, I'm through with love.
You scarred me deeper than they knew.
I won't play russian roulette again with my heart.

And she had had her heart broke too
She knew exactly how it hurt.
But she never gave up a romantic's hope
And I began to find mine in yours.

Scars too visible and a heart gun-shy
Seems all I ever had, I lost.
Then she filled my everything like the blinding sunrise
And I find anew I believe in love.

I've fallen in love
Found it again
I've finally found love
And now you know
I'm never letting you, luv, go.

I know I screwed it up too much
Could never again fall in love.
How could I be so lucky
The second time around?

Falling harder than I ever knew before
Though I'm still scared to face the loss.
You fill my life like the sudden sunrise
And to think once I thought love wasn't worth the cost.

I've fallen in love
Found it again
I've finally found love
And now you know
I'll never let you, luv, go.

And to think all I wanted, to be at peace.
Pure ecstasy now seems like such a little thing
Sometimes it's hard to fall asleep at night
Coz I'm afraid I'll wake up and find it's all a dream.

I love you, I love you, I love you
Now she seems like such a distant scar.
You're so wildly different, so everything I need
You somehow restored all my shattered heart.

And now it's yours, I'm fully yours
I want you to be fully mine.
To wake up to your beauty each morning
Is all that I want of life.

I've fallen in love
Finally found it again
And now you know
I'll never let love go.

I'll never let you, luv, go.

To trust you with my weakness
I trusted you with strength.
In breaking down these walls
It'd never be the same

Strip me naked, strip me dry
Leave me out in the rain
I thought you said you wanted
To take away my pain

You said I was your world
They said you lied.
I was better off before you looked into my eyes
Saw past my disguise

When I'm alone
Then I'm open
Vulnerable to all those who would break in.
My armor
Isn't stronger
Than their touch of ecstasy and words of sin.

Reality fades dimly
Lost before my eyes.
Your hands feel like walls of fire
Cutting me open like knives.

I wasn't true to the world
Locked up inside my heart.
But at least back then I wasn't dying
Inside of loving scars.

You said I was your world
They said you lied.
I was better off before you looked into my eyes
Saw past my disguise

When I'm alone
Then I'm open
Vulnerable to those who would worm within.
My armor
Isn't stronger
Than their touch of ecstasy and words of sin.

Leave me naked, leave me be
I'll find a way to get over you
If only by turning to them
To fill this hole you bared.

His kiss tastes bitter
Your touch was like Paradise.
But he won't leave me bleeding alone
He'll stay through each night.

Like vultures
Gathered around for the kill
What have you done to me?
Do with me as you will.

You said I was your world
They said you lied.
I was better off before you looked into my eyes
Saw past my disguise

Left so alone
There I'm open
Vulnerable to those who walk within.
My armor
Isn't stronger
Than his touch of ecstasy and words of sin.

You had filled me
Then you left me
Cast me upon the waves at the mercy of the wind.
If I fall here
Ever further
I'll point my finger at you when judged for it.

You broke into my heart
With your bloody kiss.
Now I can never be
The same again.

Shattered open
Now I'm broken
Vulnerable to anyone who wants to traipse right in.
My armor
Didn't stand a chance
Against your arousing touch and professings of love.

Against your words, your looks, your touch
And I had thought I had a fighting chance.
Nothing I ever had could stand up to
Everything you had on my naive little heart.

Twenty angry poems later
And countless weeping songs
Trying now to think of anything
Besides what went so wrong.

Besides the swearing and the shouting
And months questioning what we are
And you telling me you were better off
Without me in your heart.

This doesn't change how I feel
I used to love you too.

You were the first one who got inside
The first one who became my entire life.
And when you left me, broke me, undid me
It opened up my eyes to what it means to grieve.

You drew me in to fall in love
And then destroyed that belief.

The times I lost myself in your blue eyes
When you lost yourself in mine.
When you told me you'd wait seven years for me
If that's what it took to make me your wife.

Your fingers in mine for the very first time
Like a starstruck Owl City song.
You'd drive for five hours just to see me for two.
Your cologne that would make my heart pound.

This doesn't change how I feel
I used to love you too.

You were the first one who got inside
The first one who became my entire life.
And when you left me, broke me, undid me
It opened up my eyes to what it means to grieve.

You drew me in to fall in love
And then destroyed that belief.

Love letters, sweet compliments, breathtaking embraces
You hated writing, but you wrote poetry for me.
I got you hooked on Taylor, pop music, and dance;
For me you learned waltz and swing.

Every word of our last conversation
Every last word that you spoke
Wedged deep inside me
It's all still in my heart.

Was it worth what we had
The brief love for months of pain?
Was it only after that it got screwed up
Or were we always too late?

This is how I feel
I truly loved you.

You were the first one who got inside
The first one who became my entire life.
And forever after life was never the same.
I guess it's to your credit it took eight months to even get over you
Though you told me off the day we were through.
You were my first
But honestly
If I could do it again
You'd never get me.

You had my heart
Yeah, coz love's too blind to see.
Well two years later I see now.
We were never meant to be.