(I've had the chorus for ages...finally I worked out what the rest of it should involve!)

The hot summer evenings in your car
Your hands that knew just where to go.
Bodies melded together like they were meant to be
Tasting what I had missed by being alone.

It's like I can't get you off my mind
Can't swallow away the sting.
Well I'm stronger, I'm better, than this--than you.
It was a fun summer fling.

I thought finally this summer I could live my dream
But then I woke up to reality instead.
Never wanted anyone like you want me
Well.
It was good while it lasted.

The rendezvouses, the letters, where we exchanged our hearts.
How every love song spoke only of us.
Lying so safely in your arms
Refusing to see the fragility of trust.

I can't get you off my mind
Can't swallow away the sting.
Well I'm stronger, I'm better, than this--than you.
It was a fun summer fling.

I thought finally this summer I could live my dream
But then I woke up to reality instead.
Never loved anyone like you love me
Well.
It was good while it lasted.

Everything seemed so perfect, seemed so right.
And I thought, this once--you were really mine.
Refused to see the train coming till it hit me.
I thought it'd be different
This time.

Poured my all in, now look what I hold
Shattered hopes, open scars.
Nothing I do can make Love's cut.
Even my very best isn't good enough.

Like heck I ever believed in love
I'll just gather up and wall off these shards that were my dreams.
You were fun, now you're gone, thanks for the memories, dear one.
It was a fun summer fling.

I will go back to being on my own, you know.
It was a fun summer flng.

I thought finally this summer I could live my dream
But then I woke up to reality instead.
Never wanted nobody like you want me
Well
It was good while it lasted.

When every love song seems to scream your name
And I feel I should be strong
But I need everything you can give and more
Coz everything's so wrong.

My whole world is falling apart in my arms
Coz my entire world is your love.
But I can't see you, feel you, when you're not here
How can I live without my heart?

Someday
I'll figure out how to make it through.
Somehow
I'll figure out a way to get back to you.
Someway
I'll have it all together, have it all figured out.
But today
I just need you to be here
So you can hold me now.

I'm trying to trust, just to follow your lead
But it's a nightmare to trust while blind.
We can try all we want, but it doesn't change
That I'm still alone at night.

Is it too much to ask, of God and love
That I could just lie down in your arms?
It's impossibly hard, but that doesn't change
You're the only one I'm dreaming of.

Someday
I'll figure out how to make it through.
Somehow
I'll figure out a way to get back to you.
Someway
I'll have it all together, have it all figured out.
But today
I just need you to be here
So you can hold me now.

It's easy to be selfish when I struggle each moment
But I don't know how you survive it there
To be far away, never see what you want to believe
Trust all your love upon a prayer.

I don't know how to do this
How to make it through.
But I will figure it out.
Coz I want to be with you.

Someday
I'll figure out how to make it through.
Somehow
I'll figure out a way to get back to you.
Someway
I'll have it all together, have it all figured out.
But today
I just need you to be here
To believe you won't let me down.

Today
I just need you to be here
So I can feel you now.

(Thanks to the Alley for this one, and the graffiti artist whose work inspired this song.

[1st vs] You knew I was broken
It wouldn't take long.
You thought I was weak
I knew you were wrong.

No other boys
Got inside my mind
But I thought you were different.
You proved me right.

[pre-chorus] I thought good of the world
Then I met you
Just falling in love and keeping it
Too good to be true.

[chorus]  You can put me through hell
Through hell
I don't care.
I won't cease to fall
In love
Again.
You can beat me down
Ten thousand times
But it only takes once
To change my mind.

Just realize
You've lost this time.

My dreams will never fall down
Though all your stars are crashing around.

[2nd vs] To fight through the pain
To bear your nightmares in the day.
To still hope despite the proof
Or to put on a face.

For a broken man
You found your strength
But it wasn't soon enough
To make me stay.

An innocent child
To reach for the stars
And come away clutching
A broken heart.

[pre-chorus] I thought good of the world
Then I met you
Just falling in love and keeping it
Too good to be true.

[chorus]  You can put me through hell
Through hell
I don't care.
I won't cease to fall
In love
Again.
You can prove me wrong
Ten thousand times
But it only takes once
To change my mind.

Just realize
You've lost this time.

My dreams will never fall down
Though all your stars are crashing around.

[3rd vs] Innocence broken
Can't be rebuilt.
I've cried every night
Over the milk we've spilt.

You were killing me
And it's killing me now
Wish I could believe
That it didn't mean a thing
To you
Anymore.

[last pre-chorus] When I fell so far
I knew how high we had gone.
Never knew love could leave
Such a deep deep scar.

[chorus]  You can put me through hell
Through hell
I don't care.
I won't cease to fall
In love
Again.
You can break me down
Ten thousand times
But it only takes one man
To change my mind.

Just realize
You've lost this time.

My dreams will never fall down
Though all your stars are crashing around.

This sky will never fall down
And all the stars are crashing around.

Looking for love but this ship's going down
Broken hearts not even given the dignity to bleed.
Romanticisim despairing alone in the crowds
Hope the only thing unseen.

Looking for truth in the edge of every lie
Deceit the only one who isn't afraid to show who he truly is.
Your beauty can't be seen through his eyes
Waiting, left praying for your first true kiss.

Looking for love and I lost my way
Just trying to keep this ship afloat.
Can you save me from this sea of pain?
Can you make me believe I'm not alone?

Looking for hope like a needle in hay
Everyone on this journey just seems to flip you off.
And though you're reaching with no chance he will hear you pray
You may find you just might touch the hand of God.

Looking for love and I lost my way
Just trying to keep this ship afloat.
Can you save me from this sea of pain?
Can you make me believe I'm not alone?

Looking for love on the bloodied ground
Deaf ears in heaven, lustful eyes on earth.
No one cares enough to stick around and mend the breaking holes
Only the indifferent maker knows his children's true worth.

It's too late for the rest.
Until the ice pierce their soul.
No one cares anymore.

No one searching can be found.
This ship's going down.

that night was our first night. our first night ever alone, our first night fully together, our first night where i became wholly yours. you filled me, completed me. everything was perfect: our first night.

amidst the too-easily heated tempers and heated bodies and far too passionate wills, somehow you found the precisely flawless way to say "i love you". your lips on my skin were perfection. pure ecstasy. blocking out the noises around us and blinding the judgemental eyes who screamed that we were too young, true love hasn't found you, you are fools.
yes we were.
welcome to love.
"this is love," you said, and kissed me, kissed me harder this time till we were rising with the force of that kiss. inexplicably it wasn't enough anymore to just hold you, be held by you. we had to have more.
and you convinced me, and i knew it was right, coz you loved me. wanted me forever. it'd be all right.
you said.
i still remember the incredible rush of adrenaline over the possibility of being discovered, the feel of your weight and your strength, the coldness of the air against my skin, the heat of your lips on my forehead, mouth, neck. the sheer delight, the bliss, of being undividedly yours. the way you held me close so i could feel your heart beating through your thin shirt. the way i believed you when you told me you loved me.
on our first night.
i still miss the feel of you against me, the way you knew just where to touch me, how your hands would run over my back till i went mad. how you would laugh when i'd quote pixar and sing along to every rodgers and hammerstein song we knew. your cute vanity over your surfer-boy blond hair, how you'd stop my breath when you'd touch me unexpectedly, that night when we stayed up to write a novel (LOTR-calibre, of course) till 7am and passed out from sheer exhaustion and caused a terrific scandal when we were discovered that morning.
i still have the unfinished few chapters.
i still remember it all.
and everything of our entire lives seemed to come together in its fulfillment, that first night.
our last night.
who knew?
was any of it true?
did anything of it mean anything to you? when you kept your lips hovering against my ear, your breath heating my entire body, and murmured, "i love you."
on our last night.

[vs 1]  Every bit of you is beauty
Perfect in every flaw.
You think you're nothing to me
But you couldn't be more wrong.

With your temper, loud laugh, turned-up nose
And your thick-headed maddening will
You're not a 2-D poster perfect movie star
I love you because you're real.

[chorus]  To feel your little hands on my body
Trusting, clinging, holding tight.
To feel every inch of you against me
To know that tonight you're mine.
Totally and completely
Your beauty blows my mind.
You've transformed my world entirely
And I want you to be my wife.

I'll fight till you are mine.
I need you in my life.

[2nd vs]  That everything's a first for you
And you've given all that to me.
Entrusted me with all your heart
And given me your keys.

I'm no knight in armor, but whoever hurts you
They'll have to get past me too.
I may not always show it like I want to
But nobody loves you like I do.

[chorus]  To feel your little hands on my body
Trusting, clinging, holding tight.
To feel every inch of you against me
To know that tonight you're mine.
Totally and completely
Your beauty blows my mind.
You've transformed my world entirely
And I want you to be my wife.

I'll fight till you are mine.
I need you in my life.

[3rd vs]  You're beautiful, though you can't see it
It's a struggle to keep my eyes off you.
I wish I could find the words to say
Just how much it means to have you.

[end-chorus]  To feel your little hands in my own
You curled up in my arms, our fingers entwined.
To be able to own you, call you mine
To keep you in my life.

I will spend each day working for you
I only want you to brighten my nights.
I love to make you smile.
You're my reason to live, not just survive.

Is this what the poets write about?
This is what it means to make love mine?
Then it's you I want, and no one else.

I will fight till you are mine.

There used to be a time
When I was held in broken arms
There used to be a time
Where you promised to never be far.
But it's not true.
I'm not owned by you.

I remember silver tears
Falling to ice your star.
You wrote me a symphony
But every note was flawed.

I'll flip a finger to the sky
And give a toast to God above
Coz when he wrote my destiny
He forgot to leave out love.
You came in through a window
But you let me slip out the door.
And now my tears freeze against the glass panes
You don't own me anymore.

There used to be a time
When you were my best friend.
And that was something to hold on to
But it shattered like pretend.

If I was entrapped or tied down
At least I knew I belonged.
Someone to call me theirs
My dear, what went wrong?
It's not true.
I'm not owned by you.
It's not true.
I'm not owned by you.

To sign my name as yours
To know I was safe in your arms
To know you'd fully given me
Every bit of your once-shattered heart.

Was it ever true?
Was I ever owned by you?

Tell me it was true.
If only for a moment
That I was owned by you.

You were just kids in love
Didn't know what you were getting into.
Too young to even know your dreams
But old enough to think what you felt was true.

And you played him like he was a dime a dozen
But he loved you, so he bore it enough.
And I could only watch and wince and grieve
As you dragged his heart through the rough.

Well you had your chance
And girl, now he's mine
The best thing in my life
That's ever been mine.
And I'm so grateful to you
For breaking his heart and sending him off
Coz he found his way to my arms and his heart's healing mine
And I've shown him he can again love.

You left him that whole summer
Didn't even tell him what was wrong.
You just strung him, hanging, along
But you left him too long.

Too bad you couldn't tell
The man that he could be.
When you pushed him so far away
You only pushed him to me.

Well you had your chance
And girl, now he's mine
The best thing in my life
That's ever been mine.
And I'm so grateful to you
For breaking his heart and sending him off
Coz he found his way to my arms and his heart's healing mine
And he's shown me what it means to love.

You little blond ditz
You're so stupid, you know.
You had the best catch
And you let him go.
I should hate you for hurting him
But I don't
Coz since you let him go
It means I won't be alone.
He's older now,and so am I
And this time it's really real.
Do you regret taking him for granted?
Do you miss him yet, my dear?

Now it's you looking on in envy
While I have him to hold me as I sleep.
Who knew broken pasts could weave such a present?
He's the best thing that's ever happened to me.

I owe you the world, you know
Though you shook him to his core.
He's found himself, and he's the stronger for that
And I've found so much more.

He's shown me what love truly can mean.
He's the best thing that's ever happened to me.

No one plays the game that she must seek
You murderer, you lost soul, you freak
The voices resounding in the chasm of her soul.

You stole his heart while he took the heat
Only one epithet rang true: You thief.
The bullet in your body lodged as you stepped back to watch him fall.

Who will hold her when she cries?
Who will catch her when she cannot fly?
Nobody's ever been stronger alone than she
Will you give her your all tonight?

Returning home to a fallen sky
Hobnobbing with the angels just to tell the devil hi.
In the voice of thousands she stands so alone.

On streets of gold, do you get it now?
Faces burning in the flames, do you regret it now?
Where is your heart? She is your home.

Who will hold her when she cries?
Who will catch her when she cannot fly?
Nobody's ever been stronger alone than she
Will you give her yourself tonight?

She can do it on her own
She can go it all alone
But she wept inside when you wiped her tear away.

In the silence of new love
Gone from lost to being found.
Ransom us all, for she is here to stay.

I will hold you when you cry
And I will catch you when you cease to fly.
You don't have to be strong alone anymore
I have given myself tonight.

I am all yours tonight.

You've kept up your walls for ages
Built of blood but they're just mirrored glass.
You don't even know how to open them up
Without breaking the red sea apart.

Let them loose just this once
Let them loose and let me in.
Take me in under your skin
Let your healing begin.

I am where your life begins.
I am the one who will make new your heart.
Take my hand and we'll walk off the ledge
Together we can face the dark.

You don't need to fight yourself anymore
Trust me enough to take my hand.
Say a prayer; yield your mind to your heart
And then you'll finally begin to understand.

You have someone on your side now.
You have suffered enough for love
Fought your doubts to the death and taken your scars
And now it's time that you won.

I am where your life begins.
I am the one who will heal your heart.
Take my hand and we'll walk off the ledge
Together we can take on the dark.

This dark, these lies are inside of me
Nothing before was ever enough.
Forcing me into the open
As the waves of light cover us.

No one ever cared enough to try
Until you bled your soul to open my eyes.
Take my hand and run with me
And let's face the light.

This is where my life begins.
This is where I awaken my heart.
Standing on the ledge, stepping off the edge
As the waves of light cover us.

Together we can do anything.
Together we can conquer this doubt.
Together we can bring back our lives.

Together
We can take on the dark.