Saturday 23 March 2013

The Bottom Line


*lights up*

"If you're so perfectly capable, why don't you do it all yourself? You don't even need me at all!"

    "I never said anything of the sort! You're jumping to conclusions based on your own rash assumptions."

"There you go again with your oh-so-logical, high and mighty brain. I was just trying to help you! Why are you getting all worked up about this?

"I didn't ask for your help! I left that there for a reason, and you shouldn't go around touching my stuff."

"And how was I supposed to know that? Can you not see anything from my perspective?"

"Well it's not like you're making it particularly easy for me! As if my life wasn't difficult enough as is."

"Oh, I make your life difficult? I'm so sick of this."

"Yeah, then why don't you go ahead and break up with me?"

"NO!"

(pause)

"No?"

"No... not like this. I refuse to lose us over something like this. I promised myself that I would always fight for us, because..."

"I love you."

"And I love you."

*blackout*

Thursday 21 March 2013

Energy

Here's a story, once again
Of a girl too grand for the life she lived
She was a butterfly
A Southern Belle, as they said
But the mundane life in her speck of a town
Sanded her smile down to the grains of dust
That rested for centuries on dry ground
Exhausted by the familiarity
She spent her days staring past the safety
Of the bars of her gilded cage
She wasn't a dreamer
She believed in what she could touch
But she fell in love
With the patch of sky just beyond the horizon
No one seemed to understand 
Eighteen was no different than seventeen
Or sixteen for that fact
She wondered how long she would remain unchanged
If she could freeze time, an ironic notion, really
The only thing she would do 
Is run as far as she possibly could with outstretched arms
Simply to feel the grass underneath her feet
And the wind in her hair
She longs for the rain
To wipe away her tears and wash away the exhaustion
To work its magic on the Earth
So that she, too, could feel alive again 
Because anything that moves is better than nothing at all

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Borrowed Words: Can We Keep the Ever After?

Take me back to the summer days...

This night's a perfect shade of dark blue
I don't know why I’m drawn to you
Could you be the other one so we’d equal two?
Light my heart up, baby, like a matchstick
And hit the gas quick
When our fingers interlock
[Sing] along to the start of forever
I'm ready to run, if you are

I don't want to be a bride
But you're the only reason that I wanna see the stars tonight
And only you keep me dreaming
We'll stay young and go dancing
We're a duchess and a prince
This feels like falling in love

Every time we kiss, I reach for the sky
laugh[ing] all night lying in the grass just talking about love
Trying to skip rocks on the ocean
Don't you dream impossible things?
I'm thinking two is better than one
But I don't want to be a bride

I just wanna be your girl, and spend this life with you
Don't count the miles; count the I-love-yous
Let them wonder how we got this far
Cause I don't need to wonder anymore
Can we keep the ever after, love?
I'll be your sunset
If you'll be my silhouette
I'm ready to run, if you are
If my heart was a compass, you'd be north

I don't want to be a bride
But forever is a long time
And I've realized, I wouldn't mind spending it by your side
You're the best thing I never knew I needed
Heaven is a place on Earth with you
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
If my heart was a house
You'd be home

The pen's in [our] hand[s] 
Ending unplanned 
In the end I want to be standing
At the beginning with you


(from: Breanne Düren, Jack's Mannequin, JRA, Bridgit Mendler, Paramore, Alyssa Reid, Vanessa Carlton, Adelaie, Diego Boneta, Death Cab for Cutie, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Cascada, Jessica Simpson, Boys Like Girls, Chrisina Perri, A Rocket to the Moon, Ne-Yo, Owl City, Lana Del Rey, He Is We, Natasha Bedingfield, Richard Marx & Donna Lewis)