A Week Since You Left

The last set of song lyrics that I posted were really upbeat and positive and sappy. In the interest of balance, here is one that leans in the opposite direction. I'm not actually bipolar. It's just poetry. I can write this stuff without actually feeling the emotions the narrator must be feeling. Honest.

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It's a week since you left,

And I'm so bereft,

A mangled-up ball of emotion.

I feel like a sham,

And I don't give a damn.

I'm struggling to go through the motions.

 

I can't let you see that I'm falling apart,

But when I go out I don't know what to do.

I can't let you know that you've torn out my heart,

So I try to pretend I can live without you.

 

It's a week since I've slept,

And I'm such a mess,

But I put on a brave face and fake it.

I think about you,

And I know what to do.

It hurts but I just have to take it.

 

So no one can know that I just want to die.

I pretend to believe I can find someone new.

I walk through the park and I stare at the sky.

If you found out you'd hurt me, that might hurt you.

 

For a week you've been gone,

And my life is just done,

Since I have no more use for my future.

I'm deeply obsessed,

And completely distressed,

Because thinking about you is torture.

 

But I relish the hurt, it reminds me of you,

I don't want to forget or get over the pain.

You're my reason to live even though we are through,

And forgetting would mean that I'd lose you again.

 

For a week I'm alone,

And I guess that's the plan,

Even though it's incredibly lonely.

I will learn not to fuss,

And I'll do what I must,

And I'll think about you, and you only.

 

So go, live your life, and forget about me,

I promise I won't let you know of my pain.

I wish you the joy, be content and carefree,

Go, leave me behind, and find true love again.

 

Everything About You

M:	The way you smile when I look at you,
M:	Your gorgeous hair and the way you laugh,
M:	Your sense of humor splits me in two;
M:	Your wicked smirk breaks my heart in half.
F:	I like the way that you look at me,
F:	Love the admiration in your stare.
F:	So tall and handsome and so carefree,
F:	Your humble blush caught me unaware.
Duet:	Everything about you,
Duet:	Everything that makes you
Duet:	Who you are.
Duet:	It isn't any one thing,
Duet:	It's everything.
Duet:	Every single thing,
Duet:	It's everything about you.
M:	I love your voice and your burning eyes.
M:	I love your wit and your curvy form.
M:	You are as clever as you are wise,
M:	As full of grace as you are of charm.
F:	Your corny jokes keep me entertained.
F:	My tummy flips when you hold my hand.
F:	Your creativity is unrestrained.
F:	You always ask, but you don't demand.
Duet:	Everything about you,
Duet:	Everything that makes you
Duet:	Who and what you are.
M:	It isn't one thing,	same time
F:	Isn't any one thing,
Duet:	It's everything.
Backup:	That's what I love,
Duet:	Every single thing,
Backup:	... is what I love,
Duet:	It's everything about you.	same time
Backup:	... what I love about you.
M:	I can rely on your common sense.
M:	I love your drive, know that you'll succeed.
M:	You always know when to take a chance.
M:	You make it clear to me what you need.
F:	You're always working with those burly arms,
F:	But you have time to tell me how you feel.
F:	Your compassion takes so many forms,
F:	Your generosity is so unreal.
Duet:	It isn't any one thing,
Duet:	Because it's everything.
Backup:	That's what I love,
Duet:	Every single thing,
Backup:	... is what I love,
Duet:	It's everything about you.	same time
Backup:	... what I love about you.
Rap Bridge: [M should have no breaks in his flow as he raps like J-None in Valhalla Calling.] [F talks over him, overlapping the end of his line and start of the next one.] [F speaks at a slower speed than M, in a breathy alto half-whispered bedroom voice.]
M:	Hold up now, I gotta verbalize
F:	Please do advise.
M:	What you mean to me; I must vocalize
F:	I can empathize.
M:	What it's taken me a while to realize,
F:	Let me emphasize:
M:	'Cause you look at me and I'm mesmerized.
F:	You're the prize,
M:	I'm awestruck, bowled over, and hypnotized,
F:	Your face a sunrise.
M:	My blood pressure is on the rise.
F:	Did you know I fantasize
M:	You know how I like to just look into your eyes,
F:	about touching your hair?
M:	I get so lost in your gaze that it's hard not to stare,
F:	I don't even care.
M:	'Cause no other girl that I've met can compare,
F:	You're so debonair,
M:	You've got your own style, your own kind of flair,
F:	I fell out of my chair,
M:	And I really must say that we make quite a pair,
F:	Consider my plight,
M:	'Cause whenever I'm sad, you are such a delight,
F:	Now I'm upright,
M:	Your mind is so keen and your face is so bright,
F:	But I'm still quite a sight,
M:	You take all my passions and set them alight,
F:	I'm getting excited,
M:	Awakening all of my base appetites,
F:	Weak in the knee,
M:	So I swear to you that now I'm gonna be
F:	'Cause I think I see
M:	Your number one fan and your best devotee.
F:	How you feel about me,
M:	'Cause I'm looking at you and you're looking at me,
F:	And that's gotta be
M:	And you're giving off all of the right energy.
F:	The best thing that's happened to me.
M:	I'm picking that vibe up and liking it too,
F:	That makes two:
M:	And now that I've got it I know what to do,
F:	I'm liking it too.
M:	And my days of pining for you might be through,
F:	Yeah I'm with you.
M:	'Cause I'm telling you now that I'm in love with you.
F:	Oh, me too.
M:	I never knew, until I met you,
M:	How much emotion my heart could feel.
Duet:	It's a little too good to be true,
M:	But now I surely believe it's real.
F:	I never worry that you're gonna cheat:
F:	I can see the focus in your eyes.
Duet:	It's your love that makes my heart beat.
F:	And when I'm with you the time just flies.
Duet:	Everything about you,
Duet:	Everything that makes you
Backup:	Who...
Duet:	Who you are.
Backup:	... you ... are.
M:	It isn't just one thing	same time
F:	It isn't any single thing,
Duet:	It's all of the things.
Backup:	That's what I love,
Duet:	Every single thing,
Backup:	... is what I love,
Chorus:	It's everything about you.
Duet:	Every single thing,
Chorus:	Everything about you.
Duet:	It isn't any one single thing.
Duet:	It's all of the things.
Backup:	That's what I love,
Duet:	Every single thing,
Backup:	... is what I love,
Chorus:	It's everything about you.
Duet:	Every single thing,
Chorus:	Everything about you.
M:	Everything about you.
Backup:	That's what I love.
F:	It's everything about you.
Backup:	Everything I love.
Duet:	Everything about you.
Chorus:	Everything about you.
Chorus:	Everything about you.

Cut out of a Mountain

It was a rock,

Cut out of a mountain.

Not by human hands.

It was a rock,

Cut out of a mountain.

Do you understand?

 

[Musical introduction]

 

The wind blows in the north.

The wind blows in the south,

Eventually we all strike out,

And everything we care about

Goes flying in the wind.

 

It was a rock,

Cut out of a mountain.

Not by human hands.

It was a rock,

Cut out of a mountain.

Do you understand?

 

Everything that we have done,

However great, the time will come.

We build it tall.

We build it strong,

But it will fall,

Before too long.

Everything that we have made

Is doomed to fail, and then to fade.

Everything that we have built

Will break and let us down.

 

We work the long day through,

But what good does it do?

We hurry forth, we hurry back,

Running on our weary track,

Until it's gone again.

 

It was a rock,

Cut out of a mountain.

Not by human hands.

It was a rock,

Cut out of a mountain.

Do you understand?

 

Everything that we have done,

However great, the time will come.

We build it tall.

We build it strong,

But it will fall,

Before too long.

Everything that we have made

Is doomed to fail, and then to fade.

Everything that we have built

Will break and let us down.

 

[musical outro]

 

Do you understand?

It was a mountain...

Do you understand?

It was a mountain...

[repeat, fading to silence]

Dust

There's one thing in this life that you will learn:

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

They say time is the fire in which we burn.

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

Eat and drink, and weep with those who mourn.

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

Death comes for every person who is born.

Dust you are. To dust you will return!

Dust you are. To dust you will return!

It was years ago, I was twenty-two,

Ready to go, fresh out of school.

I had so much that I wanted to do.

I had no idea I was such a fool.

There's one thing in this life that you will learn:

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

They say time is the fire in which we burn.

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

Eat and drink, and weep with those who mourn.

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

Death comes for every person who is born.

Dust you are. To dust you will return!

Dust you are. To dust you will return!

I couldn't change the world by myself,

[But] I had ideas and a full bookshelf.

I saw the world and I saw the grief,

[But] if we worked hard it could be enough.

There's one thing in this life that you will learn:

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

They say time is the fire in which we burn.

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

Eat and drink, and weep with those who mourn.

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

Death comes for every person who is born.

Dust you are. To dust you will return!

Dust you are. To dust you will return!

It seemed to me that the plan was sound,

Get a group together and buckle down,

With sweat and tears and some common ground,

We could bring the world around.

There's one thing in this life that you will learn:

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

They say time is the fire in which we burn.

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

Eat and drink, and weep with those who mourn.

Dust you are, and to dust you will return!

Death comes for every person who is born.

Dust you are. To dust you will return!

Dust you are. To dust you will return!

Personified

I am the pain, I am the sorrow.

Here today and gone tomorrow.

I am anger, I am suffering.

I am the death I am the carcass.

Light has come, but men love darkness.

I am terror, I am far from grace.

I am the bruise, I am the black eye.

Life's a b-word, and then you die.

I am sickness, I am damaged goods.

I am the wrong, I am the failure.

This world is a dumpster fire.

I am ruin, I am broken dreams.

I Have Wandered

I have wandered lost and blind,

Within the confines of my mind.

My mental state was slowly sinking.

I needed to explore my thinking.

But the dolor that is lodged

Within my brain, still remains,

When I am done rethinking.

 

My mind has such a hollow shape,

An empty cage I can't escape.

If all my thoughts could be directed,

A useful structure thus erected,

Something good and useful might

Even be gained, or obtained,

Some evil circumvented.

 

Would I, could I, do some good?

I have no doubt at all I should.

Alas, I doubt that I am able,

The notion seems like just a fable,

For the focus, I am missing,

And the lack, holds me back,

Making me quite unstable.

 

[instrumental metal segment here, with maybe some incomprehensible growl vocals]

 

Chained to myself, I cannot break away.

I babble, but I know I have nothing good to say.

Sick to death of life, I am terrified to die,

I question all my goals, and I cannot answer why.

My dark thoughts tear me up, I have no one to confide,

It's eating me alive, all bottled up inside.

I want to go away, but there's nowhere left to turn.

I'm doomed to ride it out, and then in hell to burn.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

 

In the dark I sit and brood,

Savoring my somber mood.

But all my thinking turns to folly,

Empty, hollow, meloncholy,

And dejected, I return

To what I know, so I go

Back to the crass and bloody,

 

For I am quite unstable,

Oooooooooooooooooooooooh!

And I am done with thinking.

 

Londonderry Err

O [person], Dear,

Mine heart, mine heart is broken,

For I dispair, to ever hear a word,

A word from you,

A word that love betokens,

That word I long to hear,

But I will not.

 

And so I go,

I go but I am saddened.

I go to live a life of solitude,

A life alone,

Without you in my presence,

Oh [person] dear, oh dear,

I am alone.

 

So fear ye not,

Oh [person] dear, be happy,

For if I leave, I leave you well alone.

And if I go,

I'm sure you will find someone,

A better man, for you,

Than I could be.

 

And as for me,

Mine end, mine end is fitting,

There is for me, a better match indeed.

For if I can't

Have you then I want no one.

And that is good,

For no one wants me too.

 

Sung to the tune Londonderry Air

Sing to Yourself and to God

I sing, when I am alone,
Then I get into the zone.
I sing with the rest of my squad.
I sing even though I am flawed.
I sing and I clap, stomp, and nod.
I sing to myself and to God.

Waking up to dawn's first light,
I stand up and stifle a yawn.
I didn't get enough sleep last night;
I'll take what I got and move on.
I wanna be happy and bright,
Like a person whose troubles are gone.
Well music makes me feel alright, [so]
I'll sing to myself and to God.
Oh I'll sing to myself and to God.
I gotta sing to myself and to God.

I sing, when I am alone,
Then I get into the zone.
I sing with the rest of my squad.
I sing even though I am flawed.
I sing and I clap, stomp, and nod.
I sing to myself and to God.

I sing to myself and to God.
I sing to myself and to God.
Sing to yourself and to God.

When everything goes your way,
When everything's going to pot,
When you're having a really good day,
And when you're really really not,
Nevermind what people might say,
Set aside that insecure thought.
They are not your judges today,
Sing to yourself and to God.
Sing to yourself and to God.

Sing, sing when you are alone.
Sing and get into the zone.
Sing with the rest of your squad.
Sing even though you are flawed.
Sing, now clap stomp and nod.
Sing to yourself and to God.

Voices

Why're you always asking who I'm talking to?
I thought it was apparent, I wasn't talking to you.
You ain't got no business, asking about what I said.
It wasn't meant for you but for the voices in my head.

Voices in my head, voices in my head,
When I hear them talk to me, I've never been mislead.
Voices in my head, right between my ears,
They have kept me company for many many years.

People often interrupt the voices in my head.
So then they have to say again, whatever they just said.
I know the people mean no harm, they're simply unaware,
But to the voices in my head, it really seems unfair.

Voices in my head, voices in my head,
When I hear them talk to me, I've never been mislead.
Voices in my head, voices in my mind,
They tell me things, and then I find,
That I'm the only one they told,
The only one of all mankind,
The only one who stayed enrolled,
The only one who can still hear the voices in my head.

[whispered] The voices in my head, say that I'm inbred,
[whispered] 'Cause both my grandparents also heard voices in their head.

I am always talking to the voices in my head.
If I don't keep them listening, they talk to me instead,
And once they start to argue, I can't hear myself think.
If I don't keep them quiet, they drive me to the brink.

The voices in my head, voices in my head,
When I hear them talk to me, I've never been mislead.
Voices in my head, right between my ears,
They have kept me company for many many years.
Voices in my head, voices in my mind,
They tell me things, and then I find,
That I'm the only one they told,
The only one of all mankind,
The only one who stayed enrolled,
The only one who can still hear
The voices in my head.
The voices in my head.
The voices in my head.

Bubble Wrap

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

Pinch it once, it goes snap.

Again and again, pop-pop-popping,

Once you start, there's no stopping.

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

You agree? Stomp and clap!

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

Ev'ry time I get a package, [I]

Tear into it like a savage,

Ripping tape and shredding cardboard,

Cutting boxes, plunging inward,

Take the product out the carton,

Gotta see what it was packed in,

Hoping for some mindless pleasure.

Did my goods come wrapped in treasure?

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

Pinch it once, it goes snap.

Again and again, pop-pop-popping,

Once you start, there's no stopping.

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

You agree? Stomp and clap!

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

[I]

Just can't seem to get enough of

This fantastic packing stuff of

Legend. You know, it's my fav'rite,

I just love it, gotta have it,

Love to pop it, have to pop it.

Once I'm popping, I can't stop it,

Oh, it's gone now, what an outrage!

How long till I get a package?

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

Pinch it once, it goes snap.

Again and again, pop-pop-popping,

Once you start, there's no stopping.

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

You agree? Stomp and clap!

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop.

Pinch and pop till I can't stop.

Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop.

 

Pop and pop and pop and pop.

Pop pop pop pop, Hop on Pop.

 

"We / like to hop on top of pop."

Hop hop hop hop, Hop on Pop.

 

"You / must not hop on top of pop."

Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop.

 

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

Pinch it once, it goes snap.

Again and again, pop-pop-popping,

Once you start, there's no stopping.

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

You agree? Stomp and clap!

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

I like [beat] bubble wrap.

I like [beat] bubble wrap!