A song's chorus

You said you loved me, but I know you lied

You don't choke out the one you wanna make your bride

You don't pummel her soul just to keep up your pride

I think of you often just to justify it

Just to justify all the times I tried

Speaking Sweetly

Speaking sweetly to me with that gap in between 

Your top and bottom teeth

Singing slowly in your sleep

Waves breaking on the long black beach

Holding gently the things that stick to your palms

Holding tightly the things that refuse to stay still

I've always had a harem of demons in the back room

Always had a whiskey-strong will

Never have I ever had a never like this

Never again, never before, never stretched out around us

The numbers turn to nonsense 

In a wonderland of whispers

351 days until I pose for all the pictures

All 351 lined up to be flogged into permanence

No one trained us for this

Turn up the volume and sleep turned into this 

Turn into the veil and quietly burn in the furnace

How I Feel When I Look At You

It took the longest journey to find you here, the longest game of hide-and-seek played between me and my heart. It was all so treacherous, so disappointing. The broken dreams in my wake are many and ugly, speaking of scars I still have to look at and burdens I still carry, and I'm not even sure how I made it through. Something in me must have known I was waiting for you. And if I had to make every horrible mistake, if I had to sit in that pain, if I had to go through that train wreck over and over and over, I would gladly do it all again, just to end up in this moment with you.