You & Me.

It's a yellow slide
And our matching swings,
Four bare feet
Dangling in the wind.
We carved our names
in the backyard tree.
I'd lock you out the truck.
You still haven't forgave me.
We'd spend our days
With kickballs, calling for cars.
We'd spend our nights
Counting fireflies in our jars.

And nothing mattered
But our scraped knees
Staying on the block
And climbing trees
And nothing mattered but you and me.

Now we're so far away
From that sixth avenue heartbreak
Remember the paper mistletoe
You refused to take?
I spent my life
Watching you be the best
Now you're going to college
And I've already left
My last day
I felt so guilty
I knew I abandoned you
Hope you forgive me
Guess we'll never spend
Our days again as carefree
As our childhood days
Trying to climb that tree

And nothing matters
But your phone calls
Making sure you're okay
And random trips to the mall
And nothing matters
But being your best friend
And being the older sister
You can believe in
And nothing matters but you and me.

One

You were the one.
You were the one who let me down.
You were the one.
You were the one who I never found.
I broke my own heart, baby,
The day I let you let me down.

You are the one.
You are the one who can't move on.
You are the one.
You are the one who wrote this song.
I walked away,
But you were the one opening the door.

I can't ever say I regret a damn thing.
I did you right.
I did you right,
When you couldn't see it was killing me.
You saw too late.
You see it too late.

You were the one.
You were the one with the sharp tongue.
You were the one.
You were the one, and now I'm left with no one.
Baby, I wish it was my fault
That I had to leave you.

Sublime.

I've been praying for these to be the words
To bring you back to life
No verb, no sound, gives you justice
There is nothing I can write

But maybe a few more lines will spill out
Maybe I can make it speak
Of your jacket, your car, the way you are
The one night of sleep

I want to remember your voice
The way you opened doors
You walked right through
Nothing stopped you
And now it's all gone
I want to see your eyes again
Your smile woke me everyday
Our whispers, the liquor
I always miss it
When the Sublime vinyl plays

I cannot bring you back to life
With every ink stain
Nothing compares to your soul, your being
I can't write away this pain.

Bleed blue.

Breakin' through these mountains fast
A steal away from buried past
When everything whispers his lost name
When colors scream and people blame
To take it back, would it be I
Who points fingers, let words fly?
I can not help but breathe in guilt
I can not help but miss the voice,
his hands,
his shirt.
I can not help but miss him
I can not help them.
If red can scream, it yells in you
It breaks my skin
As you bleed blue
I pray in your syllables
Every voice answers
I hear your name--face
I'm lost, I lost the chase
I can not, will not, escape your past
Weaving through these mountains, fast.

Shadowplay.

Slow dances in the dark
Shadows play across the sheets
Recalling old broken hearts
Being burnt out by the heat
A firelight--a soft glow
A thousand sharp points ahead
We take our drags, a thousand slow
Keep the lights off on our bed

Take me now, take me please
I swear this is all I ever need
A night drive and my best friend
Let's promise to not let this end
I swear you are all I ever need
Take me please.