"A Statement of Life in a Cocoon"
turn back the curtain. there's a reason for this
disguise. and it looks as if someone has found us
out. in opportunity, a thousand and one true lies. a
lifetime, covered up. i've seen the words i can't
bear. to watch you love and let it go. i've torn
apart. i can't bear to watch you love and let this
go. we're always told the grass is greener on the
other side. it's all i want and all i know. with
stellar glances and a feud of two to frame. a
lifetime, sold around. and when the eight meets one.
she's surely drifted on to meet herself back on the
other ground. and when it's all gone. get her own
kind of life. it is the only thing that's left.
"Finest Moment"
i thought i wrote down everything you ever said. but
there was so much more
to that. shades down. never walk outside alone.
disconnect the phone and
wait. make loud your finest moment here. it was
everything that i couldn't
know. tear these pages out. and bury the two in
vain. hidden shadows for
under the pillow. where the love stops. girl, you
never tell it all. let it
all fade away. when the watch breaks, everything you
ever said turns into
blank stares.
"New Obsessions For the Season"
there were times when we were searching for love
that could answer every
question that the eyes ever posed. eras fall. and a
nation discovers new
obsessions for the season and a new pair of shoes.
with time, you're so like
the original. watch the tables turn again. because a
home is not in another.
another story wound up. i woke up to a snowy tv
screen with animated test
bars and remote to kill the pain. taking time. what
were you searching for?
like the movies go, your paper thoughts pretend. all
i ever wanted was to
live like this. hand in hand across the beaches we
would lie.
"Snap"
the worn out lines of other's thoughts. always
present, always cold. a summer lost to stale
absurdities. now find my way out of glass cage.
broken over me like a first time. drive the car.
what's on the edge for me? what's on the edge of
autumn? would you say the things that you never
meant for a lifetime of memories? would you let this
all just go to hell? and write back on the other
side. would you find it in your heart to make me hurt
inside? our thoughts were over until now. the fire
in your eyes. and the way she moved the night. our
thoughts were over until now. there's a liar in your
eyes. and we'll say the things we never meant. for a
lifetime of memories. and we let it all just go to
hell. and wrote back on the other side. and we found
it in our hearts to make us hurt inside.
and we'll say those things we never meant. for a
lifetime.
"Holding Voices"
would it be wrong to keep a box for
memories/triumph? and take it off my
shelf to breathe. just for tonite. i don't want the
last word here. we're
holding voices in our hands. but we'll take one day
at a time. watch
snowflakes kiss your eyes. i'll cherish every moment
here. i guess the rest
is on my own. can you read me? because i tried to
type in bold print. i'm
seeing movies play out in your eyes. where did you
leave this? i've
forgotten once again. one more chance for a fleeting
glimpse.
"In the End of This"
we're into breaking our idols with baseball bats. i
knew the game was over and the wreckage followed in.
shut down and play your part while i return. a new
sense of it and the rewards of just feeling fine.
where are you now? because i'm with fading
boundaries now. you'll make me into nothing. so hold
your fight. because i belong to no one now you'll
see.
"Paper Heart"
it happens all the time. we walk around ourselves in
> circles. another waste
of time. you know it's been so long since i've stood
on my own. set it
slower, ever going to a place where i could always
fall asleep into your
arms. staring at the pictures. and the symbol that
you gave me. all of it
that wasn't there. it was anything and everything to
feel okay/get away. but
it gets easier. i am winning over. you know it's
taken everything i had to
learn. it's to know you, right from wrong. it's to
know you, right? and i'll
wear this on my sleeve.
"In the Quiet"
in the quiet, it rains for hours on end. when we'll
slip into our fears
again. and the stars above our heads break loose. i
know you're out beyond
the broken glass. still i wonder where you're at. in
the quiet, it pays us
back tonight. where echoes will bring us into light.
and the stars above our
heads break loose. in the quiet room where fears are
drowned. we are holding
on to nothing but the sound. and i am not here
because of you. my only point
of view.
All words by Mark P. Shue, Copyright 2002.