Forever is Relative Lyric Poetry Collection

Bonita Speedway All I Need Off the Coast of Carolina Emergence of the Butterfly Fireworks Echoes Second Best Worst Enemy Angel Forever is Relative Iridium Anomaly Heisenberg Confirmed BONITA SPEEDWAY Summer trees send falling leaves Upon a road still wet with rain Blurred by tears plaguing the years And every turn's calling my name Midnight run beneath the stars Flying down a tree-lined track Tires screaming to the world This time I won't be coming back Headlights scattered by the trees As I am coming 'round the bend Close my eyes, I'm letting go Beautiful road, beautiful end An obscure note I quickly wrote Left to find a day too late Changing sides of yellow lines I'm setting up for my escape Midnight run beneath the stars Flying down a tree-lined track Tires screaming to the world This time I won't be coming back Headlights scattered by the trees As I am coming 'round the bend Close my eyes, I'm letting go Beautiful road, beautiful end Close my eyes, I'm letting go Beautiful road, beautiful night Lonely life, a lonely end Beautiful road, beautiful end Back to Top ALL I NEED There's three feet of snow outside But I can still see the ocean every time I close my eyes A summer breeze flows like my fingers through your hair I still picture us there The sun's gone down, the beach is ours As we lie there, entwined beneath a galaxy of stars Something's much more beautiful about a crystal sky Reflected in your eyes My paradise is not palm trees My paradise is lying in your arms, you sleeping next to me Morning comes, your smile is the first thing that I see And that's all I need But for now all I can is count the days And wait for the signs that summer's on its way So I can be with you again And I can be complete again 'Cause you’re all I need Back to Top OFF THE COAST OF CAROLINA The wind and waves Pick up As calm turns to storm The horizon reveals The tempest Three miles off the shore The footprints we left Sand blasted Into our eyes from the beach And the dunes we built To save us Now burying the streets A sand castle falls Into punishing waves And so will we One last look down the coast As the lights of the pier Collapse into the sea It's the same Season and season again Warm weather and calm seas Hide the hurricane around the bend You can flee and let go of my hand But I'll guard our footprints in the sand Sinking with the dreams that I can't save Look for my tomb beneath the waves It's the same Season and season again Warm weather and calm seas Hide the hurricane around the bend You can flee and let go of my hand But I'll guard our footprints in the sand Sinking with the dreams that I can't save Look for my tomb beneath the waves Back to Top EMERGENCE OF THE BUTTERFLY The fall of autumn sends you north Brand new as the scenery behind Still I keep you close to me Blind to all the changes deep inside Changes deep inside... I watched you spin your cocoon Weathering the seasons and the storms Remained the branch that you clung to As you took to changing forms Now emerge and spread your wings Fly away and leave me behind Leave me behind My emerging butterfly Discard the shelter of the shell That held you safely through the change Ready now to take to flight Knowing that you'll never be the same Never be the same... I watched you spin your cocoon Weathering the seasons and the storms Remained the branch that you clung to As you took to changing forms Now emerge and spread your wings Fly away and leave me behind Leave me behind My emerging butterfly Atop your wings of orange and blue So freely in the clouds you soar You are beautiful now But you were beautiful before You were beautiful before... Back to Top FIREWORKS I sit beside you on the car ride Quiet as I spend the night Wondering what's going on Behind those beautiful blue eyes I almost feel I'm not alone This town still almost feels like home Every second feels so much Like everything I used to know Still I'm searching For that spark that I once knew It was nothing short of fireworks When you had me and I had you A solo from across the street The anthem to our slow defeat As we stare into the sky I won't let it show when I speak But this scene is killing me inside Holding on just long enough to hide And keep myself collected Through our final hug goodbye Still I'm searching For that spark that I once knew It was nothing short of fireworks When you had me and I had you I watch my hopes ascend Before bursting in the air The one thing I'm still holding to Is something that isn't there Still I'm searching For that spark that I once knew It was nothing short of fireworks When you had me and I had you You had me and I had you... You had me and I had you... Back to Top ECHOES I remember the night was quiet The sand still warm after a setting sun Your hand fit so perfectly in mine And your lips tasted of strawberry and rum I wanted to freeze that moment Suspended like the stars up in the sky Beneath the Milky Way, lost within The galaxy I'd found inside your eyes Do you remember... The way it used to feel? All the stupid little things We never noticed back then Now the echoes of the love That I could never forget And the ricochets through my memory The distant sound of you and me I remember the little love notes And laughing like summer would never end Singing along with the radio "Heads we will and tails we'll try again" And when leaves turned to shades of red Counting miles 'til the campus was in view A state away, but still so close Home was any place that I could be with you Do you remember... The way it used to feel? All the stupid little things We never noticed back then Now the echoes of the love That I could never forget And the ricochets through my memory The distant sound of you and me Do you remember... The distant sound of you and me? Do you remember... The distant sound of you and me? Do you remember... The distant sound of you and me? Back to Top SECOND BEST I could take the change And I could take the pain With you by my side I could take on anything I could take the time Until I came to find That every day I dreamed of you I wasn't even on your mind I never tried to be Your priority All I wanted was to be part of you But it leaves me haunted The sense that I was never wanted However much I loved you However much I love you If I could choke back the words I wouldn't take another breath If I could live without a heart I'd tear it straight from my chest One more hope I've tasted One more heartbeat wasted Never being more than second best I could take the years And I could take the tears But, "In a way I'll always love you" Are the hardest words to hear Holding back the pleas Watching as you leave It's killing me inside And I'm dying just to breathe I never claimed to be The one to set you free All I wanted was to be part of you But it leaves me haunted I hope that you've found all you wanted However much I loved you However much I love you If I could choke back the words I wouldn't take another breath If I could live without a heart I'd tear it straight from my chest One more hope I've tasted One more heartbeat wasted Never being more than second best Back to Top WORST ENEMY Framed by my mistakes I’ve perfected being flawed And turned breaking myself down Into my finest art A master of painting The worst portraits of myself Collect the images like trophies Collecting dust upon a shelf It's only in my mind That I'm not worth each breath I take It's only in my mind But it's a place I can't escape Open up my eyes to face The person they refuse to see And in that cold reflection I find my own worst enemy is me Torn apart so thoroughly There's nothing left of me to break Making honest compliments The hardest words to take I sketch my insecurities Hang them high upon the wall It’s only when I'm hurting That I know how to feel at all It's only in my mind That I'm not worth each breath I take It's only in my mind But it's a place I can't escape Open up my eyes to face The person they refuse to see And in that cold reflection I find my own worst enemy is me Back to Top ANGEL A dark tree line Recedes into a cold black sky The road is winding As leaves fly by my window side I'm so detached Watching like a movie scene Distant behind tired eyes Careening down familiar streets Fading hopes drifting to Pillars made of oak and stone Welcoming with open arms Along side a lonely road And I ask, "God, will you pull me through the fight?" And I ask, "God, Is my Angel here tonight?" Two bottles done Open, empty, dead and overturned All that I have come to be Pushing past the point of no return Shots dance with sleep Unfinished is my last image of love A pencil falls The only thing I'll draw tonight is blood My stomach counts Twenty little reasons to let go Promising tomorrow Is a pain I'll never know And I ask, "God, will you pull me through the fight?" And I ask, "God, is my Angel here tonight?" I don’t need a lover I need a savior Beneath the wings that grace me I need her arms to save me And I ask, "God, is my Angel here tonight?" Back to Top FOREVER IS RELATIVE Familiar eyes that I once loved Distant, dancing past like strangers If you were right about one thing It was that everything changes Even as you took to flight I stayed guardian to our dreams Left to wash out with the tide Before beaches never seen So taken by your promises But I should have realized The only time you meant forever Was the time you said, "goodbye" Was it just a pleasant thought To pass the time on our way towards the end? Was it more than I deserved? Or was it nothing but a word? Longing to break the routine Is it all you hoped to be? Once someone's world, now a One-night stand in a sorority Your skirt just barely long enough To conceal a desperate girl And cover all that you have left Of yourself to give the world You passed me up so easily Traded for a fleeting phase Tell me, how many "I love you's" Had no meaning to the phrase? Was it just a pleasant thought     (Forget your promises) To pass the time on our way towards the end?     (Forever is relative) Was it more than I deserved?     (Forget forever) Or was it nothing but a word?     (Forget forever) Has any hint been worth my breath? Or has the end been for the best? When did the choice become so clear You're happier without me here? Forget your promises     (They weren’t worth their weight in tears)         (Forget forever) Forever is relative     (The words that left me drowning here)         (Forget forever) Forget your promises     (Left drowning in your apathy)         (Forget forever) Forever is relative     (To wonder if you every really loved me)         (Forget forever) Forget forever Forget forever Back to Top IRIDIUM ANOMALY The atmosphere is set ablaze Destruction streaks across the sky A fireball signals the end The heavens rain with our demise Blankets of dust eclipse the sun A curtain of darkness descends The world may survive the test But for us it is the end At the apex of our reign The heart that I gave you to own Now buried deep beneath the dust Fossilized to hardened stone An era over in a flash This boundary will mark the end The world that now bears my remains Will never know such love again Six miles wide with perfect aim A calamitous impact event Sending walls of wind and waves Erasing all the days we spent Years we counted by the millions Now only fragments in a sieve All that's left to tell our tale Are the bones of what once lived At the apex of our reign The heart that I gave you to own Now buried deep beneath the dust Fossilized to hardened stone An era over in a flash This boundary will mark the end The world that now bears my remains Will never know such love again We were once the biggest thing The world had ever known Now eroding on a mountain side Undiscovered and alone An era over in a flash This boundary will mark the end The world that now bears my remains Will never know such love again Back to Top HEISENBERG CONFIRMED Out of dust and empty space Hearts, like particles, collide In that big bang we came to be My universe and everything inside Formed with too much energy For the forces to sustain Diverging endlessly through space Destined never to collide again The universe we came to build     (From all the planets and the stars) Now such a cold and empty thing     (To all the atoms and the quarks) Devoid of mass and energy     (Say goodbye to time and space) You were once my everything     (Now nothing of my universe remains) Commitment held like carbon bonds Now the chains fail to unite The passion cooled 'til motion froze Now the chemistry no longer ignites So certain of where we were I failed to appreciate The illusion of precision Hiding how fast you're moving away The universe we came to build     (From all the planets and the stars) Now such a cold and empty thing     (To all the atoms and the quarks) Devoid of mass and energy     (Say goodbye to time and space) You were once my everything     (Now nothing of my universe remains) Now nothing remains... Now nothing remains... Now nothing of my universe remains Back to Top