Touch the Sky

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here comes like ten in one. i found all these atticus ones. enjoy.

just enough madness to make her interesting

let me die first or i will die twice

i'd rather have a body full of scars
and a head full of memories
than a head full of regrets
and perfect skin

that was her magic
she could still see the sunset
even on those darkest days

sometimes
i want a quiet life
other times
i want to go
a little bit fucking Gatsby

the world is made up of
too many girls wondering if their pretty
and too many boys
too shy to tell them

she always loved the things
that the rest of the world forgot
snails and slugs and the broken flowers
i think that's why she loved me
i was another broken thing
that the world left behind

she was the most beautiful
complicated thing
i'd ever seen
a tangled mess
of silky strong
and all i wanted of life
was to sit down
cross legged
and untie her knots.

she wasn't looking for a knight
she was looking for a sword

does the sun promise to shine?
no, but it will
even behind the darkest clouds it will
and no promise will make it shine longer or brighter
for that is it's fate.
to burn until it can burn no more
so, to love you is not my promise
it is my fate
to burn until i can burn no more

it was never the way she looked
always the way she was
i could've fallen in love with my eyes closed

across a room
tangled up in her imaginations
they had spent a lifetime together
but the time he said hello

'i don't believe in magic'
the young boy said
the old boy smiled
'you will, when you see her'

a sky full of stars and he was staring at her

love her but leave her wild

she wanted to be rich
and she looked good on a yacht
but i wanted a girl
who looked good by a campfire
with freckles like sparks to stain the ashy sky

she wasn't given wings to see the world from a tree

true love exists in moments
stumbled upon by accident
in hospitals, in airports and underneath the stars
gone before you realize it was there
missed before you knew you had it

her eyes
sung stories
with sad endings
i wanted to wrap her in a blanket
and tell her
she'd be safe forever
and
so i did

she was all mine
and she shone to
blush the sun

that was more like twenty in one. i have more atticus. skip if you want, but he's good. so maybe don't skip.

find that one you love and let them burn you
let them burn you like the sun
let your love and hate fuel the fire
and the more vulnerable you become
the hotter you will burn
until you are nothing but molten ash
and when that fire cools
your love will be
a hard cool steel
and nothing will break you
for together you have been the sun

trust no kings
kings put girls in towers
trust your wings
for girls with wings
will soar past kings
as kings watch up from towers.

all she's ever wanted
was for him to look in her eyes and say
everything will be alright
and to believe them
and all he's ever wanted
was to look back
and see in her eyes
that it was true

i fought my eyes
to stay awake
no dream
was prettier
than the way she slept

she was looking for a lad
who would one day be a king
who could slay the dragons
and make her remember
that she was a queen 

i want to be with someone who dreams of doing everything in life
and nothing on rainy sunday afternoons

i let her go
because i knew she could do better
and now she's gone
i wonder
if i should've
just been better

that's all the atticus i have for a while.