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homeless romantic
03:33
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homeless romantic
shadows whisper distant sentimental
neon diner lights seem numb
sinful sidewalks stretch for miles before me
a brownbag wino strumming nerves
leather jacket laureate
paper napkin poet
this hotel rooms breeds blood soaked written lust
inspired by the birds i’ve loved
phone calls from jesus come to few and far between
siddhartha’s rotting underneath nirvanic leaves
leather jacket laureate
paper napkin poet
i’m not a hopeless romantic
i’m a homeless romantic
1144 north ave. ne
swimmingly stroking hell of apt. 8
baby watch the news
it’s burning down
room 351
at the highland inn
lying on my bed
getting drunk again
staring up at god
static’s in my head
blue beat sweatshirt on
document this hotel life
take another swig of wine
ring ring ring
yells the telephone
girl on the other end
works down at the front desk
wants me to take her home
but i’m gonna take her to bed
so there we were
in her sacred place
panties barely holding on to her legs
while i’m opening a beer
cause i finally found somewhere to lay
my head down
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sentimental drunks
02:02
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sentimental drunks Cammarata/Cook
teenage tragedies came to an end
old friends say so long
you fell for a forever girl in New Orleans
genius in leather jackets
poets in a punk rock band
remember all those pretty birds that flew around our heads
sentimental drunks are in between us
though we're miles apart
maybe brilliance maybe crazy
the father tells his son
don’t be the bitter one
upside-down angels of an empty class
walking around in bluejean tranquility
penning words
of a world
where we’re the only ones that get the joke
you know we came around
and busted up that scene
seemed like we were the only ones
we're gonna write on in stride
the beauty inside the ugly things
the world don't see
the children in the sun
grow up the broken ones
they were just like us
they aren’t anything like us
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someone to bring you light
new celluloid delusions
transparent through your tomorrow
someone to bring you light
someone to bring you light
and with such truth comes surrender
all entanglements are presumptuous
all relationships bear sweet fiction
don’t write this one off
those butterflies in your chest
tangled in frost-bitten arteries
feels like you’re breaking down
this girl can build you up again
someone to bring you light
someone to bring you light
walk voidal sidewalks in discord
like an upside down wingless angel
carry around this flame that won’t burn out
she’s already half gone
love flows through everyone
love flows through everyone
love pumps through everyone
words pump out from your heart
someone to bring you light
someone to bring you light
(go out get that girl
why don’t you
take her hand in yours
hold on now
she’s the one for you
she loves you)
(don’t let this one get away
don’t let this girl slip away
she’s the one you want shining down on you
she loves you)
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the gem
03:10
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the gem
scattered thought of wine filled nights
and coffee stained paper napkin poetry
written pretty in her image
she smiled for miles in dreams of summer fields
blossoming in hard luck hotel room
bite your lip in nervous schoolgirl charm
and the sun shown bright in each others eyes
leaving no shadows and no doubt
only children smiling innocence
with a forever love
gentle spring bloom
visions of a perfect girl
lonely hearts have finally met their match
an old man’s soul is dying for your touch
on lips with platinum kiss
i’ll help you forget about him
and carry on
cause sometimes even new york minutes seem too long
my ink is pouring out
old flames die with new spark
i look forward to falling in love again
with you
and soon is still too far away
on freckled face i see your stars
and how they shine for brighter days
autumn beds change
i’m still not home
looking for the gem
i won’t wake to a winter cold reality
or pull the covers up over my brand new something day
please don’t cop out
i need you around
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coffee talking
02:02
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coffee talking
it seems like only yesterday
i was on the right track to your sucess
and everything that’s expected of
a pawn in this society
so i’m the runt
the one that won’t survive
i sucked the nipple dry
of all its milk
left behind to fend for myself
like a lead on a story
that wouldn’t quite provide the answers
sure i know it’s hard
but i write and i smoke
and i think up new ways
to try and conquer the world
all jacked up on caffeine
i’ve seen the world in which you live
and i don’t want any part of it
my route is tough and i’ve got a flat
but passion
my compassion
will prevail
i’m not like you
i’m who you wish you could be
i stand out in a crowd
i do what i want
Holden and i had a drink in a bar once
i think
and i do think
independently
cause i will find my own
and make it it my own right
i’ll see faces smiling at me
like i just painted the fucking “Mona Lisa”
and i’ll stare blankly back at them
probably still unsatisfied
at all that i’d accomplished
i’m not like you
i’m who you wish you could be
i stand out in a crowd
i do what i want
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6. |
please allie
06:57
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please allie
suck down smoke of hard-luck days
running through fields of graphite amusement
insanity comes to me in metaphors
trying to become what i once was
allie don’t let me disappear
i don’t wanna go down down down
step off the curb into emptiness
stumbling over my imperfections
4am pacing endlessly
ritualistic behavioral compulsiveness
i watched as he came to terms with it
genius only to be taken for what he’s worth
a melody and a half pack of cigarettes
some similes that led to inconclusive evidence
been analyzing everything for so many years
and all i came up with was a pocket full of hope
chasing dreams
of heroes past
will i survive
in time to realize
that hell is not so real
still i’m burning for all eternity
inside this life
and blue skies of loneliness
basement mad reclusiveness
staring blankly into an eclipse
blinding mind within elusiveness
walk across the street
through the ashes of the gods i’ve known for
one million years
slowly one by ones
my feet unglue like the pavement that’s
crumbling from under me
please allie
somehow i’ll make it through
i’ll make it to
the other side of the street
without disappearing
please allie
thank you
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