Chasing Cars 3
Chasing Cars 3
You can drown in smoke
In huge breaths
Sucked in on the choke
Of ever wishing air
And you can lay yourself bare
Your soul on the concrete
Spread before the stare
Of every loving heart
Its not that I see
Not the pain in me
Not the hammer that crashes me constantly
Into you
This mirror I hold
Everything I do know
Turns the reflection of your eyes always
Into mine
Can you see
How you break me
Shatter me into the rainbows
Of the every word of love
“All that I am
“All that I ever was
“Is laying in your perfect eyes
“And they’re all I can see
If you feel lost
Then I wander in the same step
My feet can’t find a single path
Not without you
And though I hold true
Stronger by the gift of you
Still I huddle in the same corner
Contemplating the worst of me
How can this really be me
It just falls out of me
Into a pool of tears
“And if I lay there
“If I just lay there
“Would you lay with me
“And just forget the world
Would you hold on to me
The desperate strength you need to be
And turn with me
Out to face the world
Has this cut me as far as you know
These gouges deep in my soul
Bleed out their martyrdom
Just for you
It shakes me to the core of who I am
As I stand here in the darkness
And reach out my hand
To you
“All that I am
“All that I ever was
“Is laying in your perfect eyes
“And they’re all I can see
Stanzas six, ten and fourteen taken from “Chasing Cars”
By Snow Patrol
With much respect and many thanks
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2009
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