All Lies Before Us

A friend said you saw me and asked for my number.
Does that mean I’m in your head while you slumber?
She said by night you’re a drummer, an IT Tech by day
and that you are quite eager for our date to go your way.
You must realize, I am not who your perceptions show.
You can’t think just seeing me makes me someone you know.

CHORUS
Don’t know if I wanna go where I’m not sure I’m going.                 
Don’t know if the unknown is something I should be knowing.                
Don’t know what I’m looking for when I answer my own door.
Just know I’m jaded from all love faded with each encore.

I often wish I didn’t mind the sound of being alone
or let solitude lay me depressed and fantasy prone.
Right now, you are an image I try to focus in my head,
while I keep reviewing all the phone things we’ve said.
It seems, I can’t help but wondering where I’m being led,
is this romantic lightness or something I should dread?

CHORUS

Romance has tossed and turned my heart into many bland knots.
The moment I was born, is when Cupid began his love plots.
Long ago, my head and heart concluded it takes three years
to really know someone and how they might shift all your gears.
Slow will surely become my operative word and stance
should our first date reveal shared desires to pursue romance.

CHORUS

It all lies before us now, we share a clean slate of time.
There are no injuries, no scars, no hurts of yours or mine.
What about this heart of mine, should I put it on trial?
Should I let pain in so I might embrace a lover’s smile?
I guess places I have been and where I have yet to go
will somehow trip land within all true love feelings I don’t know … 

CHORUS

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017



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Date: 8/28/2025 10:47:00 AM
Oh, I had seen this one before! Soupmail.
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Date: 9/18/2017 9:47:00 AM
I feel the hesitation in your words CayCay, but I'm afraid for some of us, love is pain. Your words are thought provoking.
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Date: 3/8/2017 6:36:00 AM
Beautiful! So beautiful... I am getting so addicted to your lines.
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Date: 3/7/2017 10:07:00 AM
Hi CayCay...you've had your fair share of sour experiences, and it's understandable that taking another important step in life is not going to be easy. But do not dwell too much on the past...look to the future...follow your heart whilst keeping an open mind. Wishing you all the best:) Regards // paul
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Date: 3/6/2017 4:42:00 PM
Caycay , knowing YOUR mind set right now, I totally get this one as well and it's very heartfelt, dear. I especially like the last verse and the way you put all those unanswered questions before you. BTW, do you mean so at the very end instead of Sore?
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Date: 3/6/2017 6:25:00 AM
Excellent. Lovely lyric. All the best for the contest. Enjoyed reading it. Thanks for sharing it.
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Date: 3/6/2017 5:04:00 AM
Your last stanza I really could relate to CayCay. A beautiful entry for Charlotte's contest. A fave for me! Hugs, Connie
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Date: 3/5/2017 10:13:00 PM
The last stanza is well relatable for me ... a nice lyric from your pearls of thought, CayCay ...
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