It Gets Better

Don’t wanna keep it going
Coz you feel your heart slowing
As the blade edges nearer
And you see everything clearer

Tears that run and hope that sways
Making you this twisted way
Never again will they tease
Coz this is the last time you will bleed

Won’t let them see the pain they cause
You won’t let them see your flaws
Coz now the blade is calling your end
And you know there’s no need to pretend

But please listen to my words letter by letter
You just need to know that it does get better
Don’t listen to their words, listen to your heart
Their words try to confuse and tear you apart

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Game Of Hearts

Remember when we were so much younger
When we fed such a lush and cunning hunger
That bared it fangs under such dire situations
We consumed our world's lies and fascinations

Shall we play that youthful little game again?
Let the rules be broken until one of us lies maimed
Under the watchful gaze of the others star crossed eyes
Let us both fall to the truth and play with fateful ties

Sometimes I stare into such darkened and tormented seas
That spill down reddened cheeks as they vehemently refuse me
And I know that maybe all these games are turning vile
But we never care for the bruises as long as emotions are riled

Let me choose the setting for the next scene we perform
And maybe I'll let you take me through a little reform
Or maybe I'll stand as the main character and win the prize
Make you suffer like we always do with these silent cries

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Tortured Silence

I don't want to be here, to open this door
Please close the curtains I don't want to see anymore
What I see when I close my eyes hurts beyond belief
I close the world away as I seek for some relief

I'll sit here in silence as the world burns and screams
I'll look through your heart pulling at the seems
Because all of my memories trap me in these confines
Memories of a day, a month, a year caged behind enemy lines

You know nothing and I won't be the one to tell
Not a word about the terrors that my mind befell
Because I'm not the one who gets saved by silence
No it's your sanity I preserve by not recounting the violence

Do you truly want to know how they scarred my skin?
Or how it came so close to you giving my home to next of kin
How they burnt my life away with their lies and knives
Trust me its not a tale to tell your children and wives

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The Effects Of Coffee

It started over coffee
This thing with you and me
Well coffee and tea in the afternoon
Ended with a passionate exchanged under the moon

Now the kiss wasn't that of fairy tales
But my god the memory never pales
From your light hearted jokes
To the disapproving looks from the old folks

You left me on my doorstep safely home yet alone
But my heart stopped when I heard your tone on my phone
Not even three steps into my house and still with you
And that night I fell to sleep feeling alive and new

The next day I woke up to your voice and cried
There you stood outside my window, I've never felt so tongue tied
You laughed as I called you a fool, said ‘only for you'
And I began to think this was all too good to be true

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Hers That Is Mine

You are a mystery, an impression on depression
You help me fight against any type of regression
So you are my saviour, one I owe a great favour
You help easy this misery and life's bland flavour

You are a promise of future with burning sunshine
You are a warning that everything might not be fine
Yet in your arms I can lay and I know no hell will pay
Because you are my safe house and I know I'll be okay

I listen with great intent as the rain caresses the glass
Playing with my thoughts as it drowns the trodden grass
These four walls shield my heart and I know that I am here
Even if I don't know where here is, I'm home because you're near

So I'll keep searching for a little more excitement out there
And pretend that I don't want to know, I don't care
Because even though you protect me throughout the day
You go back to that house so you and she can play

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Story Of Opinions

A story so strange and disturbing that it writes itself
Surely these actions are not good for ones mental health
As dark as the day yet twisted in the hands of a pen
A story that has not yet fallen to the mind of men

A title that holds so much more honour than the object
The words that mark the page are nothing but a prospect
Of a decision or miscalculation that causes such deep regret
That neither king nor tyrant shall ever try to forget

Engraved on the face of the earth, buried in the heart
Burnt in the mind and sleeping in the soul, there is the start
Of a tale from so many different angles and opinions
Mourned by the victim or retold by the loyal minion

The ink that taints the page slowly swallows the truth
‘Unbiased' yet moulded to teach today's youth
The story clear as water yet disturbed by the waves
Propaganda gives the public the words they crave

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Hidden Evil

Once I saw true happiness
I was standing in the rain
Watching that smile so ageless
The face so free of all pain

But since then so long ago
I’ve never seen happiness so pure
Now all I see is faces twisted by woe
So when you find it, share the cure

Something so ugly, so fake
That’s what I see in today’s faces
All controlled by the money they make
The rich set the poor’s low places

Now tell me why you pretend
To care and lend a hand
When all you care ‘bout is how it ends
And after it all where you stand

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Sibling Rivalry

You lay out your heart on the gamers table
Take a quick sip from the bottle without a label
Wait as the pills make you feel alive
But you and I know something this will not revive

‘I'm sorry for your loss; she was a diamond in rough'
Stop with the lies! She's gone, all because you didn't care enough
You looked at her through judgemental eyes, never listening to her cries
She told you she was drowning in expectations and family ties

The mother she love, the father she looked up to
She was hurting so bad and all you selfish sods knew
But instead of silent screams she talked to me, dreams of being free
Because of you she lost her chance to show the world what she could be

So I join the underworld to hunt down this mystery
A simple grudge that hired a hit man to cause misery
A family feud that was forced down the generations
Now shall end because I won't be the only one to receive commiserations

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Complicated

Don't do this to me I beg and plead
And then I realise I've let you succeed
You didn't need to hurt me, no not at all
You just needed me to feel what it's like to fall

We really are pathetic aren't we, if this is how we are
Painting each other's demise scar by bloody scar
We play cat and mouse but no one can see
Just how violent this game can truly be

Watching closely as the other makes her move
Waiting for that opportune moment to try and remove
All traces of memories soon to be repeated
Once our most vicious audience has been seated

We play with each other like love sickened fools
We live by the guidelines but abide no rules
None can ever really try to pull us apart
Because we were never together in the start

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Have I Lost Or Have You?

I sit here and wonder ‘did you really care? '
Do you think what you do is truly fair?
Or is it something you will later regret
Or will you fool yourself and just forget?

Come, tell me your stories, I await your tales
Fables of demons and angels but not of your fails
No, never a whisper of the lives you have torn asunder
Not a sign of your past until that fateful little blunder

You see, as I sit in my house no longer a home
I don't feel so played nor so very alone
As I do when you whisper in my ear
Telling me of your deepest darkest ‘fear'

But to you it's all a game, a play of words
Words that you ensure remain so unheard
Such a fickle little mind must you possess
But of course how could I expect anything less

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