100 Poems For The Soul

Hello Shadow

  You were a wooden stake-sliver in my heart,
I was a pale star cooling in the evening,
And I guess I knew that the time wasn't right,
When we heard the funeral chimes start ringing
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You caught me like a butterfly
I caught you like the plague
I told you not to walk away
But I would have smothered
had you stayed...
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So hello shadow
I guess you were here all along
Hello shadow
Sing your midnight weeping song
And hello nightmares
Tear these lyrics from my lungs
Hello breakdown
Sorrow speaks a thousand tongues.
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You left your mark upon my wrists
Chains of gold and irony
I took your drugs but they made me sick
Afraid of what I'd wake to see
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So I kissed your lips and wished for this
You dug your blades into me
One more night of treachery, one more kiss
And one more bottle
Of broken dreams...
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So hello shadow
I guess you were here all along
Hello shadow
Sing your midnight bleeding song
And hello nightmares
Tear these lyrics from my lungs
Hello breakdown
Sorrow speaks a thousand tongues.
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So I drowned you in a silver well
And learned to find my spine again
With sunlight through the floor of hell
I melted down the broken bones
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I turned one day and saw you there
A bitter soot smudge on the window pane
So I loaded all my silver bullets
And locked the doors
To wait for rain.
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So hello shadow
I guess you were there all along
Hello shadow
Sing your midnight sleeping songs
And goodbye nightmares
Tear these lyrics from my lungs
Thank you breakdown
Sorrow taught me to be strong.