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Bloodshot

With your bloodshot eyes.

Every sunset, you cried.

We trusted the lies. 

We loved less at times, both upset inside.

The cassette would rhyme.

Play jazz sets to hide.

The bloodshot in mine.

Saw love’s knots and binds.

Untangle the vines.

A tough spot to climb.

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New Heights

And I’m hardly your combatant, but it’s like a battle to the death.

And I question why I’m with you, then we’re right back in bed.

And I know your heart is faraway, but forever near my grasp.

And you never show how close we came cause you’re always fearing that.

So I devote those scary thoughts to restless sleep instead.

Cause if I pull back, then you sense that, and we’re right bac...

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Equivalent Exchange

Bloodletting pages & letters.

Siphoning passion.

Blurring reality.

An emboldened hero.

A tale as loose as vines.

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Airline Tickets

Gone separate ways, holding airline tickets.

You held the opposite of mine, you wanted distance.

I came back to grab you, to try again and fix it.

Said you found a new passion you had to go and visit. 

I was too afraid, living on my own.

All of the sadness you shared, I gladly conformed.

Dancing in the rain, you always loved when it poured.

Now on rainy days, I can't go dancin...

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Salt & Sea

It's a lesson to learn, something about our love.

With all the past I've explored, it's no wonder it feels this tough. 

Cause we once walked together, now we walk away.

It takes a man to see his mistakes, is something I oughta say.

The man I could be, was something you tried to frame.

But I never changed you, I liked just how you came.

The sun gliding off your hair, your smile, s...

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