Poetry & Lyrics – Life Gone Write

Guilt

Tighten your lips
Tighten your belt

Tighten your stitches-

But don’t bleed.

Beg for your wants

Beg for your hopes

Beg on your knees-

But don’t need.

Heighten your goals

Heighten your dreams

Heighten your ambitions-

but don’t fall.

So we sew,

And we staple,

And we burn when we’re able,

And it cauterizes into scars we are sure no one can see.

One more layer,

A lying smile,

A lying laugh to hide a thought

That hides the track lines from a past we never get to leave.

But we all have them

Running up our arms,

Buried beneath skin,

Under sleeves of lovely silk.

The Winners have their losses.

The Triumphs have their falls.

The Saviors have their sacrifice

The Survivors have their guilt.

Poetry and Lyrics, Grey Light

Take a shot of whiskey just to kiss your precious troubles behind

Take a breath and count to death and last a little longer this time.

Oh, it’ll drain you of every drop you find.

Mercy is begging to the reaper to steal its time.

Take a crack and give it back and then pretend you’re falling in line.

Take the day and let if fade and kill that little piece of your mind

Oh, it will haunt you as you fake your sleep.

Darkness is friends with the lovers that you try to keep.

Silently darkness is chasing the day

Ashes to ashes, the firelight falls to decay

Burgundy hands can’t wash all these remnants away

Grey light breaks through the black night and covers the pain.