Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) piosenki

In fall, the year you grew to be six feet I tempered my fear into haste A worry that dogged our mother She, the baby of three, asked how So many things could take flight at once There are no easy answers, and even thirteen, i Could not think of a sure...

Nurse your wounds, you are no soldier We are not men of faith So that, when we die, the only thing that touches you Will be the worms of earth, turning earth over earth I have not forgiven you I don't think that i will Will you ever know how hard it was...

You threw your hands up in the air That’s when I knew You had made peace with yourself And all of the anger Balled up in tight fists Went slack when the cancer won out This is how my heart broke This is how my heart broke This is how my heart broke T...

All of this time i should have known, but we buried our hopes in our throats And though it spared us from honesty, it could not deny anything else After the air cleared and the anger left our bodies, we slept more soundly We slept more soundly! On denton,...

I was ten years old when my grandparents on my father's side Celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage Our family piled into our tan '85 Aerostar (The same one that famously died on the way to my Younger sister's dance recital when the entire driv...

You were a secret kept Far from my heart I know i should have wept But no tears found their way out You were an avalanche A sharp decent with fast words, deliverance (i will not be ashamed, i will move perfectly now) And i, the minuet Kept time by sorr...

Oh no! I thought you'd changed Take back all the things you said I remember thinking this evidence You left was damning enough But you took all the words from my mouth and pulled them out How could I not see you for what you are? But you turned all the w...

Found out how scared you were To ask how i knew everything But not how i ever blamed you I know you were never aware So how could you say "sorry, how could i take and take And never think of you? I'm not sorry i don't care about you." Found out how lit...

Oh, the city burns! Nero would be proud My mouth fills up A eulogy comes out What a waste of breath! Spoke, but nothing else My heart pours out Slow down Put your head in clouds Oh no! (i am alone) 

It flew out your mouth, "you can drive me anywhere- just drive me anywhere but here tonight." The length of your neck is a lonely parapet; you are armed to the teeth and looking for a fight It was in your mother's dress that the temper finally showed signs...

I nearly lost you on our wedding day It was early afternoon And you were leaving from lunch with your best friend When your vehicle careened Into an SUV as it turned out in front of you Violently flinging you into the waiting airbag You were shaken and...

It was fall when we came back From a failed transplant out in Southern California I remember crossing the border to Michigan And feeling my heart almost leap out of my chest I was back home I felt whole again I turned to Cathy, and she was beaming too...

Oh, you had littered your clothes across the floor where we last met Like a trail of things we never said- but what have we ever said? Still, it was 1998, and we had plenty of time to reconcile But i was more concerned with what came next then i was of forg...

Long after the lure of home was lost We were holed up in our room In the guest room of my parent's house That was once my bedroom We had spent so much time waiting And wanting to come home That when we came back, we came without purpose Or it was all sp...

My brother graduated college in spring And we were both living back home In the town we were raised in For the summer One afternoon, we went swimming On the lake across the street With a couple of friends By the house where my roommate my freshman year...

You spoke with a nervous tick that betrayed control I know I counted the times you touched your fingers to your throat Seventeen That night, at Sara Holden's going away party You were as pale as a ghost Ivory white I think it weighed on you that you w...

For the evening classes I took in college during winter I would bundle up in layers Before making the mile or so trek from Holmes Hall To get across campus By the time the classes let out The campus was all but abandoned And I felt like I was walking in...

Will all my twenties find me so guarded? Lettered and documented by meticulous word choice and closed lips To read like: All things bear this- A purpose! or romance! But the truth is much more complicated than that And i am still trying to learn how t...

I knew that you wouldn't change, but i bit my tongue and swore Resigned myself to carry on despite you But you would not match my stride and cried "foul! foul! how could you expect me to care about somebody else?" And after all, who would expect anything e...

The smell of salt hangs in the air Heavy, and pregnant with tears How could i have ever have thought i could call this place home (where a sea of concrete swallows everything) So while you paced the floor of our apartment (a prison for two months still...