Encapsulated inside lyrics that glow,
fire this hot will never be assuaged.
Love insists on the beat of drums
backed up by solid electric guitar.
Fire this hot will never be assuaged,
turned on and turned up to purple
every speaker sticks to your blood.
Love insists on the beat of drums
to drown what sits inside so thick.
Once its held can it ever truly fade?
Backed up by solid electric guitar,
our story shines for a crowd to feel.
In the burning ballad hides its soul.
Breath grinds stone in the hollow chest,
time loops, cruel clockwork chewing marrow.
Each step refracts an endless cascade,
mirrors eating mirrors, swallowing meaning.
She watches herself dissolve, still walking,
hands trembling over undone buttons.
The walls bend inward, whispering static:
a language faceless, flat, unending.
"Echo without collapse"
Memory slits its own throat quietly,
bleeds until the air stinks of void.
Faces blur, cruel smudges framed in frost.
Fingers forget what they’ve once held.
"Echo without collapse"
The ceiling fractures, mercury spills night.
Dust coats the tongue, sour scripture of collapse.
Sanity laughs, teeth like shattered porcelain.
She screams and keeps on breathing.
Nothing stops. Nothing starts. Stillness spins.
Somewhere in the debris, she remains
a scream folded inside a name,
a self rusting softly in endless loop.
"Echo without collapse"
Verse 1
You drive me through the night
Arctic Monkeys on repeat
It feels so cinematic
I'll keep this memory
Your palm is on my thigh - I like the view
Don't let this moment end - I love you
Chorus
And it’s only us and the city lights
You tell me some dad jokes
and you like my smile
I’m biting my lip
checking if I’m asleep
It’s just too good to be true
Oh man, keep doing what you do
Verse 2
You say you want to ride
Till the morning meets my face
You turn the music down
I’m lost in your embrace
You’re looking in my eyes
then at my lips
You’re leaning close to me
and then you kiss
Chorus
Ever since you've been gone..
I've been lonely for so long.
Ever since you left me..
There's nothing left but those memories.
Ever since we said goodbye...
I've been waiting all these lonely nights.
If only my love could ever get through...
I would find my way back to you.
Together in love..yet so far away.
As the night turns into day.
I've been reaching out for you..
Because no one loves you like I do.
I still remember yesterday...
Times just keeps on slipping away.
All these days have passed me by...
Just like faces in the sky.
Somewhere in this heart of mine..
That lonely road I left behind.
Like two drifters ... so far away..
Nothing we do can bring back yesterday.
So now I am letting go..
I am finding my way...down that lonely road.
By Anthony Grider 6/29/26
They say the cancer will take me
My heart is weaker with each beat
Oh my body has been fighting you can see
Soon my God I will meet
Don't worry my soul will go up into the sky
Oh one day with angels I will fly
One day with angels I'll fly
Oh my soul will go up into the sky
Oh yeah with angels I'll fly
Up in that great big sky
Oh one day with angels I'll fly
With angels I'll fly
As I lay on my hospital bed
They say it won't be long
So much I hadn't said
But soon I'll be gone
Oh don't worry my soul will go into the sky
Oh soon with angels I'll fly
One day with angels I'll fly
Oh my soul will go up into the sky
Oh yeah with angels I'll fly
Up in that great big sky
Oh one day with angels I'll fly
With angels I'll fly
It won't be long
Oh soon I'll be gone
Don't worry I'll be up in the sky
Oh soon with angels I'll fly
One day with angels I'll fly
Oh my soul will go up into the sky
Oh yeah with angels I'll fly
Up in that great big sky
Oh one day with angels I'll fly
With angels I'll fly
Oh yeah my soul will go up into the sky
Yeah one day Oh one day with angels I'll fly
Notes from our childhood flow through the car
As once forgotten memories come alive
with each voice that joins
A song meant to bring back simpler times
As smiles fill the car
Lyrics only broken by laughter
When we get them wrong
Our eyes shining in the street lights
Catching the light just right
But that shine is just a fight
Against tears yet to be shed
As we pretend not to look back at the place our grandma lies
Wishing we could hold her hand
Just one last time
Verse 1
Love, was it love?
Or was it something else?
Because I’ve gone through hell
Can someone hear me?
When you are gone
My only wish was to be numb
I called your name, but you won’t come
chorus
Why did you leave me?
Why did you leave me?
Why did you leave me?
Why did you leave me?
alone
Verse 2
I’m drowning now
This pain won’t let me go
I can’t survive alone
Can someone hold me?
When you are gone
I fell into the dark
Now I’m falling apart
chorus
Why did you leave me?
Why did you leave me?
Why did you leave me?
Why did you leave me?
Alone
Why did you leave me?
(My only wish was to be numb )
Why did you leave me?
(I called your name, but you won’t come)
Why did you leave me?
(I fell into the dark)
Why did you leave me?
(Now I’m falling apart)
Forgive
She let me down,
Treated me like a clown
I spoke of her in prayer,
Told God, made Him aware
Of all the pain she’d caused
But God never paused…
Chorus:
He said, “Just forgive her”
Forgive her from the heart
Forgive her for it all
Forgive her for what you’ve lost
Forgive her for what it’s cost
She hurt me so bad,
Changed my happy to sad
She destroyed my hope,
Made me feel like I couldn’t cope
She was not my friend
Yet, God said it’s not the end…
Chorus:
He said, “Just forgive her”
Forgive her from the heart
Forgive her for it all
Forgive her for what you’ve lost
Forgive her for what it’s cost
She did the worst I’d seen
She made me feel such shame
And I never was to blame
I thought she was a friend
But how can I understand?
How can I forgive such sin?
But God told me to forgive
Forgive her of every sin
Forgive her of all the pain
Forgive her for everything
Because there is a King
Who forgives everything
Forgive her and believe
You’ve been a vessel for this King
Pour out love, worshipping
It’s forgiveness that will sing…
As we worship the King of Kings
All of my senses have been arrested
And captured and none has protested.
I see, hear, feel, taste, and smell
It's the season of life, show, and tell
It's the season shouting, "Resurrection!"
Pointing us all in the right direction.
It's the masterful lyrics of early Spring
She invades the season with life, and sings
Warming air, green grasses, and budding trees
Everything that breathes and beams life agrees
Oh, how I love her and the beauty she brings
Red roses, glowing in the sunlight without pain
White roses, shouting aloud without shame
Pink roses, so stunning and worthy of fame
Yellow roses, looking sweeter than sugar cane
Spring refreshes my life and keeps me sane
More than anything
I hope I can be
Someone God sees
As worthy of His care
Someone God knows
As a light He can use
Shining through the dark
Of another’s bruise
Chorus:
I want to be a light
Shining through the night
A light of love and grace
With His love, to amaze
His love will amaze
More than I can say
I hope He hears me pray
For the chance to be
A heart who He sees
As another’s answered prayer
A light that is aware
God will always care
And God is always fair
Chorus:
I want to be a light
Shining through the night
A light of love and grace
With His love, to amaze
His love will amaze
I want to be His light
Shining through the night,
Offering others hope
Showing someone how to cope
Oh, I want to be His light
Shining through the night
I’ll shine through the night
There are sentences that are inaudible
And words that are passively silent
Oh! Words, verbs, innuendoes and pirouettes
We instantly ask incredulous questions.
Their gestures sometimes are understandable
Clever foxes hide behind vices
We comprehend very well why racists
Are intermittently invisible.
Oh! Silence that is when words do not exist
We see rats robbing the store at daylight and the cats
Patiently and intelligently examine the list
Of the remaining victims peacefully and wisely.
Words are often deadly dangerous
Daring the weapons of inequality around the hellish fire
Which is about to consume the desperate city
Where the words are silent and strangled.
Hebert Logerie , September 29, 2013
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh
Pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse
Echooooo, echoooooo, echo
Echo, echo, echo
Shimmer, shimmer, shimmer
Shimmer, shimmer
Pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse.
Tic toc, tic too, tic too, tic too, tic too.
Throb, throb, swoosh, and glimmer
Humming drones craft sparkly saucers.
Blip, blip, blip, beeps, beeps, beeps, beeps
Resonate and oscillate. Vibrate and pulsate.
Undulating Nebula. Reverberating pulsar.
Wailing Quasar. The throbbing void.
The Cosmos echoes. The Cosmos glimmer.
Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhhh.
Sizzling singularity whispers the secrets.
Of the wailing Heliosphere.
Flaring pulsar with whooshing voids.
The chiming zenith balances rumbling singularity.
Surge, shimmer, wail, whisper, flare, and rumble.
The moon beckons you with its beams.
My UFO shimmers as it drifts into the mystery.
Shimmer, shimmer, shimmer, and sparkle.
Reverberating and gazing at stars.
Echo, echo, echo, echo, echo.
Tic, too, tic, too, tic, too, tic, too.
Whoosh away. Whoosh away.
Whoosh, echo, and shimmer.
The echo rebounds.
The shimmer opens bright eyes.
Whoosh as we fly high.
So drink your beer
And drink your coffee
In the fear
of The Great Nothing (Henry Jamison - The Rains)
Could it be any worse
Stuck in reverse
Let it all go to waste (Cold Play - Fix You)
Because love is patient ( Johnathan Ogden - Slow Down)
If you never try, you’ll never know
That lights will guide you
And fix you (Cold Play - Fix You)
I’ve never tried the secret door
Scared of what I couldn’t keep
Though it could drown me
Even though I’ve no fear of heights (Katie Melua - No Fear of Heights)
So I made up my mind and left her (Caribou - Hello Hammerheads))
Why is it you hide?
Anonymous popster pride,
Neutral of game plus private shame
A flame eternal
None shall extinguish—
A fire reborn from ash
Who is Bez Boi?
A private prince
His hoodie of chintz
Lyrics; blends of cherry mince
Fans wishing for a glimpse of—
The Banksy of Reggaeton
The Lyrics
This is for Pink Floyd
who reminds me
that there is always
a "dark side of the moon."
This is for Stevie Nicks
who reminds me
to "stand back"
and "you can go your own way"
even if it means
leaving love to become
something more for yourself.
This is for George Harrison
and his weeping guitar
who saw the world
"and I see the world is turning"
For The Rolling Stones
who remind me
that I won’t get everything I want
even if it’s what I think I need.
For Helen Jane Long
who plays the piano
and doesn’t sing
and says everything
without saying anything at all.
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