Castle of sand against the oncoming tide
And God won't even let this slide
But I could face anything
If you'd say yes.

To wake up to your laughter
That's my happy ever after
The forces of reason try to pry you aside
Don't let it hold you back.

For this time every clock has stopped
When you let me take you in my arms
This peace consumes my hellish world
For me, you are the only girl.

And as you fall asleep
You sleeping on me
And it doesn't seem so wrong
Coz it feels so right.

The tremor of your breathing
The pace of your heart beating
Faster, faster as we're getting closer
Do you feel mine?
Do you feel mine?
Do you feel mine?

Your slender shirt can barely hide
The shivers you're keeping locked inside.
You don't trust me; you've been burnt before
I know this too well.

Yield yourself to the rush of my embrace
And trust my honesty and heaven's grace.
Believe me, my darling, I truly love you
You made a man from this former shell.

And as you fall asleep
You sleeping on me
And it doesn't seem so wrong
Coz it feels so right.

The tremor of your breathing
The pace of your heart beating
Faster, faster as we're getting closer
Do you feel mine?
Do you feel mine?
Do you feel mine?

So I asked you
You said you didn't know
I said don't you trust love
And you said no

You gave your all before
And it burnt away your soul
Clutching your scarred hand to your chest
You don't wanna say no

Say no--say no
You wanna say yes
Say yes--oh no

If it's love
Then what are you waiting for?
Stop indulging doubt
Stop keeping score.
If it's love
And we're meant to be
Then why are you so afraid?
Don't you trust me?

Don't you trust me?

I can see it in your eyes
It isn't right.
I want you as mine...
I want you tonight.

But you're strong against my sin
Though you're weak where I am wrong.
And you told me no
Though you are starting to fall.

If it's love
Then what are you waiting for?
Stop indulging doubt
Stop keeping score.
If it's love
If we're meant to be
Then why are you so afraid?
Don't you trust me?

Don't you trust me?

The hardest part of love
Is letting go
Two years later, there must be a reason
Why I cannot move on.

But I am a man now
And I have grown.
I said am I too late?
And you said no.

Oh no, oh no
Oh no no no.

You said

This is love
I ain't waiting no more
You got under my guard
To draw me close.
This is love
And we are meant to be
And though I am still afraid
Love, I trust you

Love I trust you!

(Inspired by Adam Young's "Lonely Lullaby", for his girlfriend Annmarie.)

You're so beautiful
So breathtakingly perfectly beautiful
At times I literally cannot take my eyes off of you
And you catch me staring and blush and say "What? What's wrong?"
When it's only too perfectly right.
Even your annoying little faults are all the more endearing
Coz they're all so completely your own
And it's part of what makes you you.
And I love you.
Head over heels for you
So bitterly and tragically fallen more deeply than ever before.
You can say no.
You have more than enough cause to.
But if you do, it'll break my heart more assuredly than I've ever known.
All other girls I've been able to get over.
Not you.
You are not like them.
You are unlike them all.
Every time we touch you send fire through my veins
Every time I feel your skin my heart races exponentially.
I miss you so much when we're apart
So much I can scarcely even breathe.
I used to laugh at the lovers who used to say such things with annoying languid sighs
But now I know how true it really is.
I don't deserve you. Don't see what you see in me.
You can say no.
But if you don't
You'll make me the happiest man in the world.
And I'm not just saying that.
You mean more to me than life itself.
You ARE my life.

Is it too much to ask, to be thought the most beautiful, desirable, wanted woman in the world?
Just to one man.

Harmony
Of teardropped lullabies
Splashing from the skies.
Symphony
As falling snowflakes
Dissolve upon my eyes.

The chaste lilies bleeding crimson
Like a disillusioned virgin
Our fairy castles fill the skies with truth
But I'd rather dream of you.

The edge of my pillow still smells of you.
Like it forgot that you bid me adieu.
But I won't give up.
I won't go home.
As the sun sets over the bleak horizon
I'll be waiting on the dock for you.

Breaking beauty
Hopeless love songs
Tinged with all the despair of farewell.
Crying low
You were all I've ever known
Only the plucked daisies can tell.

He loves me
He loves me not.
Littering the dew-begotten grass.
Hades, hell
Siphoning love away
Shattering this heart of darkened glass.

The chaste lilies bleeding crimson
Like a disillusioned virgin
Our fairy castles fill the skies with truth
But I'd rather dream of you.

The edge of my pillow still smells of you.
Like it forgot that you bid me adieu.
But I won't give up.
I won't go home.
As the sun sets over the bleak horizon
I'll be waiting on the dock for you.

Lying down in a once-warm bed
Missing what once pillowed my head.
The frost blows through my opened window
Coz I still can't believe you're gone.

The little cracks in my heart all taste of you
They won't accept that life bid you adieu.
Standing here on the edge of a knife
In your arms lies my home.
As the sun sets over the bleak horizon
I'll be diving through the ice to find you.

Your ship sails off to sea
Leaving behind me.
As the sun sets over this bleak horizon
I'll be coming after you.

Everyone's just out to get their way
No one cares if your life is pain.
Why do they say good morning?
It's just another day.

No one to love, nothing to work for
No reason left to live.
Seeking for a path through the rain
And then you came along.

I used to just drag through life
Mornings always got me down
They meant another long painful day
But you aliven everything when you're in my arms.
And you laugh like you can't believe me
But baby it's never been so true.
The best part of waking up
Is waking up next to you.

Life used to be synonymous with pain.
Hey, it sucks. Well welcome to life.
But with you in my arms, my hand in your hair
I don't wanna lose this tonight.

You're making me come alive
Wake up every morning and smile at the day.
You're filling me with the sensations that are sunshine and love
You're the song in my heart and the smile on my face.

I used to just drag through life
Mornings always got me down
They meant another long painful day
But you aliven everything when you're in my arms.
And you laugh like you can't believe me
But baby it's never been so true.
The best part of waking up
Is waking up next to you.

Mornings are pretty crappy
And I don't like to get out of bed
But with you I dislike getting up
For a completely different reason instead.
I hate mornings coz I wanna go back to sleep
But when it's you with me
I love mornings coz I spend them with you
And I hate that I have to leave.

I used to just drag through life
Mornings always got me down
They meant another long painful day
But you aliven everything when you're in my arms.
And you laugh like you can't believe me
But baby it's never been so true.
The best part of waking up
Is waking up next to you.

The best part of waking up
Is waking up next to you.

She's a grown-up, she's a child
Old enough to settle down
But she still skips on the sidewalks
And dances in her car.

She's strong enough to bear your pain
And foolish enough to try.
She's weak enough to still grieve at everyone's heartache
She cares enough to cry.

Every morning after
Her bright-eyed laughter
Glows through my entire day.
She's a curse and a blessing
I don't know what I'm doing
But I want her to stay.

She's been hurt enough to go all cynical
But she still naively falls in love.
She's big enough at heart to carry you in hers
But still small enough to fit underneath your arms.

She filled my life with beauty and hope
Her being herself sends me flying.
But is she realizing what I'm discovering
Or am I just a subject of her empathy?

Every morning after
Her bright-eyed laughter
Glows through my entire day.
So contradictorily confusing
I don't know what I'm doing
But I asked her to stay.

She's always laughing
Unless you're crying
Her heart absorbs all she knows.
When she's sleeping against me
And I can feel her breathe
The whole world pauses
And suddenly
Everything's all right
When she's with me
And I don't know--I'm so scared
But she somehow makes it all right
When she is there
Darling stay here.

Darling stay here.

Plodding along on my way through life
C'est la vie--life sucks, then you die.
Work through the day so you can live it up at night.
That's how everyone around me lives their life.

But you, you're not like us
So why can you believe in true love?

Life's just a game and we put on this show
Play along and go with the flow.
Gotta just play the hand you're dealt
But what if I want a queen in my cards?

I'm in the game for you
I'm gonna play for you.

But I didn't know till I saw you dancing
With your shirt all wet in the rain.
Your arms flung out
Spinning like the world
And I know I'll never find a girl like you
(a girl like you, girl like you...)
So come on (come on!) and say my name.
Come on (come on!) and say my name.

You laugh at me and my worldly-wise ways
You've been broken like everyone else, but unlike 'em, you didn't change.
Believing in trust and love still throws you around
But you bounce right back up and refuse to stay down.

You (you), you're not like us
How can you still believe in true love?

But I didn't know till I saw you dancing
With your shirt caught up in the rain.
Your arms flung out
Spinning like the world
And I know I'll never find a girl like you
(a girl like you, girl like you...)
So come on (come on!) and say my name.
Come on (come on!) and say my name.

I wanna have a queen in my cards
I'm gonna play till I win your hand.
You infused my life with hope and love
When I thought I could never believe again.
I look around but I see only you.
I'm in the game for you.

But I didn't know till I saw you dancing
With your shirt all wet in the rain.
Your arms flung out
Spinning like the world
Teardrops blinding all over your hair
Laughter glistening on your lips.
And I know I'll never find a girl like you
(a girl like you, girl like you...)
So come on (come on!) and say my name.
Come on (come on!) and say my name!

                  Em
[1st vs]  I believed you once
         D
All your lush imagery.
        C
You were everything I'd heard of
       Bm
Everything I dreamed.

You infused my life with passion
Beyond all compare.
Desire, took me higher--
You said you'd always be there.
                        C         Bm
[pre-chorus]  And you're sorry now
       C       D
Well you won't get me back.

                     Em                D
[chorus]  You can hate me, you can love me
           C                   D6
But you won't break me apart again.
              Em                 D
You can take me wherever you want me
         C                  D
But you won't make me fall again.

[2nd vs] You promised me eternity
Then left me there to die.
You'd be the one to hold me
But you only made me cry.

Like Hollywood, like love songs
You so gave yourself to me.
With moonlight and slow kissing
And words of love to never cease.

More transient than frost
Long-suffering as the dew.
You were no more than a dream
It hits harder coz I actually believed in you.

                     Em                D
[chorus]  You can hate me, you can love me
           C                   D6
But you won't break me apart again.
              Em                 D
You can take me wherever you want me
         C                  D
But you won't make me fall again.

[end-chorus] You can take me, you can shank me
But you won't break into me again.
If you come back in all your glory
You won't get me to fall again.

It won't work this time.

With her dazzling wit and intelligence
And her spunk that's such a delightful challenge.
The way she laughs and wrinkles up her face
She practically takes his breath away.

Her bouncy walk and her trippingly easy tongue
She passionately believes in one true love.
It's making him give her a second glance
Making him wanna give love a second chance.

For all my life there was a time
Where I thought I could get away.
Just avoid love entirely
But with you everything changed.

Don't let me down
I'll work it all out.
Don't run away
Just listen to me now.
You're so out of my league
But you're the world to me.

Beauty and the Beast.

She's like a minor goddess, he's not even cute.
He's clumsy and she's got scores of smooth moves.
She can sing the stars out of the sky
And it only makes him want to cry.

Dancing gingerly around love
Pretending his lone self was enough.
If he never commits to anyone
Then no one can ever break his heart.

But she's broken down his walls
And broken through and got his heart.
Now nothing he has is safe from her
And he wants to have her all.

For all my life there was a time
Where I thought I could get away.
Just avoid love entirely
But with you everything changed.

Don't let me down
I'll work it all out.
Don't run away
Just listen now.
You're so out of my league
But you're the world to me.

Beauty and the Beast.

I don't deserve a thing about you
But does that mean I can never be happy?
You may be a too-far distant star
But your warmth is so open and accepting right here.
I will love you and I will want you
And I will tell you every day.
I don't deserve a girl like you
But that just means I'm gonna change.

Once upon a time there used to be a day
When I thought I could just hide away.
But I couldn't avoid love at all
With you everything changed.

Don't let me down
I'll work it all out.
Don't run away
Just listen to me now.
You're still so out of my league
But you mean the world to me.

Beauty and the Beast.

My sister getting married on July 18th
All dressed in white
So excited for her big night.
I stood up there to hear her take her vows
Caught the banquet she threw
And caught the eye of the best man of the groom.

To help the bride and groom (or so he said)
We spent the day together
Making sure nothing went wrong.
And by the time the music came on
He asked most every other girl to dance
Like he was waiting for a chance.

They were gone by the time darkness flew
But we were still dancing on the floor

Maybe it's love
Maybe it's true.
Maybe you want me
Maybe I want you too.
Maybe these feelings
Could be something more.
Maybe if you ask me...
Maybe I won't say no.

Dangling my heels in my hand to get a breath of fresh air
No one else was outside.
The bride was so beautiful that night.
We sat on the fountain and talked till dawn.
When they came to find us
Still felt like we had barely begun.

And he took me in his arms to say goodbye
When he pulled away, something was sparking in his eye.

Maybe it's love
Maybe it's true.
Maybe you want me
Maybe I do too.
Maybe these feelings
Could be something more.
Maybe if you ask me...
I won't say no.

Two weeks later, my sister's coming-home party that night
A kiss goodbye
Started something more inside.
Falling in love like we couldn't help a thing.
And who's to say
Maybe it was meant to be that way.

Two years later I was the one in white
And he's crying
Coz I said yes when he asked me to be his bride.
I do, he said, and I cried, and he kissed me
And we were the ones slipping out
Leaving everyone else dancing.

This is love
And it's so true
I feel you reaching for me as I'm here in your arms
And you know I love you too.
These feelings
Grew to be something more
Coz you asked me, darling.
And I never want to say no.