Molly Venter

I'm sitting alone at the bottom of the stairs, pretending to read with my head in my hands, and there's this pain in my stomach, that I know I can contain. I'm just sitting alone at the bottom of the stairs, and my self defenses are telling me not to care, the...

I just hung up the phone and I'm still smiling ear to ear and it's ten minutes for my spells of laughing fits to disappear. My friends here all smile at me and say now who was that on the phone, and I say, that's just my best friend from home. And I can't reme...

All my bags are packed I'm waiting for a train All my bags are packed I'm sitting in this greyhound station I am looking out the window, for the council the sky gives I'm going back to Virginia where my mother is Where my mother is, my mother is dying All my...

At seventeen I found the friend I base my friendships on and I guess base my relationships on too. We laugh so hard that I forgot what the word boyfriend meant till I woke up and remembered it's not you. I know that you think I am the strongest girl you know,...

Your eyes they undo me, you talk so nice It felt like you already knew me In that warm sun light We've had two conversations Maybe three if you count the dance And I moved without reservations When you took my hand So please come closer to me Come and stand r...

When I fall into a love, the kind that we have known It's hard for me to remember, I kind of liked being alone It's hard to forget, the way you could sometimes make me feel The way you loved me rotten When I had almost forgotten it was possible to heal Oh......

Would you understand me, oh, if I could not speak? Would you feed me supper if I got too weak? Would you drive six hours just to watch me sit and stare? If I got to that point, oh, would I even care, would I even care? So what is the essence of this soul, whe...

Highway 20 all the truck stops look the same Well the sign is flashing apple pie and propane I have driven seven hours today and I still got four to go I'm writing on the dashboard, taking pictures out the window They tell me the mountains still crumble and f...

My lips are thin but they're mine My legs are not so thin but they work just fine So I am through with thinking on what I lack I have felt such relief ever since I cut myself some slack I am happier now Want to scream it in the sunshine, Even when the rain po...

Hello envy, welcome in, I'm tired of fighting you my fickle friend You confound me but you're there just the same Every time I bury you, you pop up in my face again Oh.... Hello craving, pounding at my door I can scream back til my head gets sore But it makes...

I watched you standing alone Like all you had to offer was that long dark shadow But your body can't contain all of your light I saw it spilling out your fingertips and every tear you cried... Do you understand It's all smoke and mirrors, it's all a slight of...

We met in the desert, in a country that's not mine You with your dark eyes and that long strong jaw line But I know you, I know you, I know you from far away I can see that you know me, but you ain't gonna say it We go exploring through ruins of the old mines...

It's getting on late in the winter And I'm getting to feel like I don't want to go Cause I like the way you look me in the eye And the way the mountains look in the snow Did you look up when I sang Romeo and Juliet? Did you know that I was thinking about us A...

I think that my footsteps were too straight for you to follow growing up. And the times you did well things that I did wrong didn't earn you that much praise because of the times you followed your feet right off the map. And I don't know how you forgave me for...

This is the first time that I can't reach out and reel my feelings in, and my head is working overtime to find out why. I don't know you that well and I'm scared of feeling out of control and I'm scared that one day I'll wake up to need you. But yesterday...

I go into a bar on a Sunday night, sign up after a man I see singing on a street corner, and I look into the window to catch my reflection, like it matters if my hair is up or down. He sings as loud as he can tonight, and I, I can hardly understand him. Yes h...

You hold your cards in and look away I guess that means it's my turn You hold me with fierceness and you pull away early As though you could keep yourself from getting burned Well love me like you mean it, like it's the only thing you need I'm not holding bac...

Anne pulls and tugs at her shirt, like she's walking in somebody else's clothes. She starts to hum a sad, sad song cause she knows that now it's time to go back home. It won't be the same now Annie, you'll make choices but you won't feel so assured. So if you...

Come back to my room You leave your socks on the floor And some times you snore But you can stay, you can stay here from now on And I, I will be your Rock of Gibraltar when you call on me You have always been my front porch light And I'm not gonna pretend stu...

I first saw you smile, when you came to hear me sing I've been watching you for a while, you finally saw me You said you'd drive me home, we wound up in your bed You asked me what I wanted, I just shook my head I don't pretend that we will be playing for keep...

Take me or leave me or you will lose me tonight. Don't know what you're thinking, when you started this fight. And you're always just about to fall asleep. And I'm always 'bout to ask you what you mean. Your head runs in circles, but you don't think out loud,...

I'm thinking out loud, I'm talking in circles, without taking a pause I am over stimulated and intoxicated by the applause I've been stepping on land mines and running straight into things Now I am broken down, I am broken up, and there's no one to save me. I...

Drivin the backroads of hill country My station turned to NPR It's 3:30 in the morning And I could cry, but I'm not tired Cause I don't keep normal hours anymore I stop in to use the bathroom At some pit-stop 7-11 And man that store just shines Like a kid in a...

She steps outside and takes a breath like it's the last breath before she goes among the circus of performers with smiles on their faces and says 'I don't belong here I don't belong here' Well she's marking off her checklist and making conversation and forcing...

In the night I met an angel He came and hovered awful near He put his fingers on my eyelids And I swear I disappeared I felt freedom, I felt lightness I felt scared for him to go But then he whispered, child I can't tell You nothing You don't already know Hey...

Now I won't ask for your forgiveness, 'cause I know that it's hard for you too, but I just want to say I'm sorry, and I wish I knew myself better, better. It's like my friends, they told me Sunday morning, I'm here, I see where I'm going, but there's a mountai...

Tough little girl I am quick to throw it back You like giving me shit just to see me react And you're always surprised when I take it to heart You ask, "Why's that piece of your mind not connect to the other part?" And I giggle at the things that I might fool...

I had a teacher who told me, you'll write about something, 'till you run out of words. These days it feels like that's true, cause you're all that I write on, like I'm flushing my system of you. I think of how you laugh at me when I'm funny and flustered as I...

Well the upper hand is a funny thing 'cause it disappears like your car keys if you're careless. I was on the upside once, but I'm on the flipside now, and it's getting pretty lonely down here. And we don't have to go to Paris this year. I have suspended my di...

I am walking backwards and I'm listening to the rain. I'm waiting for the lightning 'cause I don't believe it can't strike the same place again. And I'm trying to remember how to be the bigger one. I'm searching for a rulebook to tell me if we're supposed to b...

Oh my most beautiful man I have been melted by your hands But there's something underneath your skin I don't understand And it may just be our age I know we did not grow up the same But what you plan to do with all that outrage And I hear you making noise Ba...

I would write you a letter, one hundred pages long I would knit you a sweater, so you could see the time I spent on it And I would make you five dozen cookies, all your favorite kinds I would wrap them up and send them as fast as I could So you would get them...