I trust, I wish, I pray and I dream for these hands to make what they may I’ve seen the life that I needed felt the pull tugging at my... tried to sleep in all the right places I’ll be home when I can build it four walls don’t make a man and one man can’t sway the world I bartered reason, I sold the sun I raped the ocean just to see what this life could be I wouldn’t change the skip that fell from this off beat and dreaming heart but I’d spin the sun just to make it shine a bright that of a lost star for I am no savior but I still keep saving crosses in hopes that one day the lost get found

scream it out now don’t save your loose tongue from your last breath of your last lung but keep your wings we’ll need them this time where we’re going is where we ache to be drown the sea, we’re all made of sand we’ve come to save the horizon in the warmth and grace of all our sunset hands today we’ll make it through the night this is all we really loved but always lost and could never keep so we wash our skin on the settling tide to bring ourselves back to life dip your hands into the day we’ll hang our paintings somewhere on the sky like fixtures of romance poems woven through these stars forget the rights of wrongs like old lovers from liars just remember to breathe keep all the stitches from our lips to make a rope to save all the mothers from their faded faces we’ve been on our knees for too long bring back the spark to set all the passion on fire I’ll bring the words, you bring the speech we’ll sing the songs to save us all I’ll bring the words, you bring the speech burn together or die alone we have nothing to lose glory won’t wait for those who don’t make it all their own so we remind ourselves that warmth is wonder and we still have our bodies still left to ignite remember lovers from liars don’t forget to breathe (don’t forget to breathe) keep all the lips and stitch up the fades on every mother (tie up all the faces) don’t fear the change forget to look back just take what was lay it to the wind I’ll bring the words, you bring the speech we’ll sing the songs to save us all scream it out now with your loose tongue from the last breath of your last lung

I will be worn like all the pages that have crumbled in all the hands of the believers believe me when I say something isn’t right here and the sum of nothing in everything will all be but ok keep all your rocks for another one there are darker eyes than mine don’t beg for me I’ll prey for you while you drive my body home in the rain watch as the dead dance in the night just to keep all of the secrets in the morning I will be worn like all the pages that have crumbled in all the hands of the believers believe me when I say something isn’t right here you’ll never make it home before the street lights turn on keep all your rocks for another one there are darker eyes than mine don’t beg for me I’ll prey for you while you drive my body home in the rain watch as the dead dance in the night just to keep all of the secrets in the morning watch as the dead dance in the night let them sing “we all have ghosts, all our closets are full” so blame not the chosen one I’m not a bad man I’ve just learned to live with myself suck back the regret we’ll always remember that night we have been marked unloved and weeded out fuck you are just as guilty as me

“You never know the capabilities of man, until he is plagued with an overwhelming desire to be in someone else's skin. To really get inside another being, feel the warmth of their blood coursing your veins. To have their spit moisten your own pallet. Most people’s urge to steal the air from different lungs subsides. While others won’t be truly fulfilled until they become another. This is your night. You are my Jane Doe.” I wear this heart upon my throat there’s a way you move that keeps me coming this way for it’s the innocence that you radiate that helps me steal your shadow if the land were to ever part us I’ll bring the water to wash you to me I’ve got the taste from the scent you will become a part of me I’ll steal your tongue before I use your prints I will wear your eyes one last time I’m coming to patch up my holes and make you my own skin the truest form of love you can always wear you’ve been my vision for so long they say forget not your first love I say remember your very first kill for there’s beauty in devastation and nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work without loss you’ll never find another one now with you, I'll never be alone ‘California, tell your people to stay away and don’t come in here’ the first time is always the hardest next time will be easier she will stay inside on all of me she’ll be the passion on all my walls

I left my spirit praying to some gods and spent my better half burning in hell I’ve learned to lay with sin and sleep through the night at least in the night they can’t feel me they can’t see me breathe and cough up webs from before I’ve wiped the blood from my lips but their feathers won’t ever leave my bled red teeth so I lay my throat in rest on a pillow and I’ll wake up when angels deserve wings there will be no opening praise or stronger saints among the sinners just people milling about as hens but not finding their comfort in groups because I’ve soured the grass and spent the last of the holy water as I’ve wiped the blood from my lips cause their feathers now clean my blood free teeth and I’ve pulled my throat from the pillow as I live on while angels are stricken from their wings I’ll always be a forgotten one amongst skeletons and stinging hearts from vacant tides and unsettled sins through static and the storm I’ll still always want so much more for every ‘one’ there’s a thousand more just remember for every ‘one’ there’s a thousand more just like me so burn down your cross and give me your wings cause...

…you pulled the pin on the half-hearted hand grenade which couldn’t shake the silver tongue from your spit lathered mouth you flipped the switch on the fake attempt at admiration which couldn’t wash the ember stains from your hell stricken hands you’re one for building a tragic ending and those concrete eyes plead the sounds of dynamite so bring on the bitter bomb and bare those pale ‘kill’ claws let’s end this all tonight I’ve been waiting for you for my whole life throw ash against the flame and snuff out the smoke signals remorse won’t save you now I’ve got you this time make no mistake these nerves are shaking but my heart beats the code to take my skin and to send out the call to leave you never missed a thought is a glimpse, is a reminder that in the end no one fades away (we just exist) we just get better at living with it (living with it) we wear our scars tighter every day you’ve got dead lungs banging against dusty ribs as I roll you off the edge of the world when you dissolve deep into the coast line I’ll be somewhere else I need to be you’ve got dead lungs banging against dusty ribs as I... when you dissolve deep into the coast line I’ll be somewhere else I need to be

I am no mans body held up by the sun or stars evacuate the air, for I am the breather I’ll escape these lungs until they reset with no regret for fading into this night we’ve all felt pain but tell me how deep is yours? cause… the sky will light up for me in time (in time) speak not of mercy for I'm not forgiven yet speak not (speak not) for all the words I have undone that have been stripped and mis-mended let them tie their ends around my eyes and squeeze out the air which hides behind my grey so I can spread them out to a new light and force the storm held deep within me cause this is not a face just a mask that I wear and I am shaking it off, shedding it off, pealing it back now this is not my flesh and bones and I am shaking them off bare against the sun I swallow... I stand... I’ve not come for sorrows or sorries no tears to fall or midnight remorse sometimes a man knows not his own being and forgets his way you have to lose your soul before you find yourself but I’m coming home

the taillights spun behind the curve (that set it off) so I’m collecting any pulses to help bandage our shakes cause I’ve heard the flares left a mark written in the sky that love came and was eaten by the beast it’s so hard to speak with forms of cadence when our lips can’t recite with any compassion it’s so hard to see the beauty when our tongues can’t kiss with any colour I’m not the man you wanted or need I’m the man that you fell in times with for this I beg all of my pardons and for this I wish we never united I’ll give you all of my sorries for as much as pennies are worth or tie that change around my neck and leave me to make a deal with ‘him’ “I should have never gone that night” (I should have never fucking gone) because I only wanted the best, the best for you I only wanted everything but this for you this night weeps with regret my rust will never sober if heaven is in you pull the hell that lies within me don’t let them take us away (call me close) lay those hands upon me (rejoice) remind me just how to feel (in these times) show me how (show me how) life is supposed to be before the ink falls from the clouds and writes us out of this life if I could sing and never sink I would have saved us, saved us from this but we’re going under into this and out of us, we’ll never beat the end but we’re going under in this life we left

there were dark days and the brightest suns but somehow we got lost in between I would only breathe if you gave me the air and still I fumble through my mistakes just hoping and wishing cause I’ll always keep my offset eyes trying to focus beyond the broken dust just to see you standing there among the light and the telephones wires if we just get past the hum we’ll be alright we’ll be alright, we’ll be just fine I’ve spread my body thin and wavered lines I should have never seen given all that I have done I’ll take whatever crumbs you leave just give me a taste before you bring back the rough nights and all that they should have been forgive me for all that I have done I meant no sadness I was just a beautiful mess cause I’ll always keep my offset eyes trying to focus beyond the broken dust just to see you standing there among the light and the telephones wires

there’s streets with names and I wish I could remember just any one eyes in the smoke below the forecast-ed city lights I was supposed to have your trust but now my family... his spit... my youth... stained like December suns give me a confession box for his sins and my discomfort cause the world is unforgiving long after midnight so open your eyes I tear my voice out and tie it to a string wave it high and into the sky but no one hears a sound and ‘like they will believe this after so long’ ‘like they will believe you after this long’ breathe it in, sit on it and move on with living It’s not my fault but I’m sorry I’m on my knees again, I’m on my knees again the ones always giving are the ones being taken how can you feel hopeless when hope was never given? I’m not a man of second chances, but a man of first times some demons will never be forgotten I said it once and I’ll scream it again I still remember your face

my stomach weighs with the weight of one thousand bricks as I see another Tuesday come to pass and when I lost my soul for the last time I never asked for any sympathy if the greater good would come I’d let him take me sip the blood from my lungs and push out the air from these veins the sun was never kind to the ones like me I’ve only got a heart that’s built with grief come save me from myself I have torn off my own wings to save some time and the more this life will narrow I’ll never find the road back to me and it’s wrong to hope to see tomorrow wish, love, lose, hate and repeat it’s all the same when it’s never pretty I am all that I’ve let myself down to be

I can only bare these bones as the sun beats down upon me and my blood now slowly turns to dust which slowly turns into a fold that falls over my eyes as they yell out again and again “we all came into this world lost, loveless and without grace only few will find the sun while most lay damaged under this storm” I’ve got scars longer than skin with guilt that keeps me on the other side with the other men and the other halves in the darker times (pitch black) if only they would have heard me in the streets (answer me, answer me) but all the windows are boarded up all the lights have burned out now I’ve got no sign to guide my way I’m always trying to find the right side in the wrong lane don’t give me peace, just give me life I want to love a love that was more than love don’t give me sense, just give me hope just give me a… as they yell it out again “we all came into this world lost, loveless and without grace only few will find the sun while most lay damaged under this storm” I’ve got hate deeper than nails with pain that keeps me in the other room with a tighter vest and a crippled heart behind a buckled mask (no life) if only they would have heard me in the hills (answer me, answer me) but all the forests we’re blackened burned all the clouds have fallen down I’m always trying to find the bright light on the dark side the bright light on the dark, dark side I’ve been locked among the lonely and depleted for years and years I am a man, I am a man of strength, but these walls were built with that of defiant I have so much to say, but it’s hard to find spit when it’s not rolling down your face if only silence, if only silence could release me for I’ve seen the late nights and the streetlights burst like the 4th of July but I could never ever catch the flame to set a fire to the sparks in my eyes I’ve torn my skin against the jaws of ivory angels I attempted to steal flight from wings that were sizes too big and been forgotten if I had words, if I had words I’d say give me teeth so I can live beyond breathing but my tongue is with the stars that left among the Northern winds there were always nails sharpened too bright for my back to kiss and even with my white flag draped around my sorrows there’s not one note left in hymns that sings a song that says I’ll make it in the end they’ll always come for us…