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Goodbye

Though I've begged and I've pleaded,
       Not wanted, but needed
       A little help, a little hope, 
       Not this endless, mindless choke
       Untraditional love at it's best
       And I fear I know the rest
       The butterflies long gone, the kisses so few
       This goodbye seems almost so long overdo
       Though it hurts, though I'm scared
       I'm missing what's so rare
       I'm really missing you
       Or the one that I knew
       We have lost and I can't try
       To finish making it all right

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No Answer

I try not to do it, but still I pick up the phone
 Then I dial the number I've known far too long
 And though it hurts to do it, I wait to hear the voice
 That never really answers, and I forget I had the choice
 Of course he knows who's calling, but he already forgot to care
 About everything he ever said, and everything we shared
 So I fell too hard this time, but really didn't I know
 When I said it was over, he'd so easily let me go

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Bad Days

I'm in a messed up kind of mood and it was one of 
 those days
 Where I realize that I have no luck but in all the
 worst ways
 The husband that's never home, and the inlaws that
 always are
 What is family anyway, just people who will scar
 It goes back to childhood really, I always just 
 came last
 What am I really saying, that it goes back to my 
 past 
 But the truth of the matter is, I wasn't well liked
 anyway
 Always the second best and not first asked to play
 Such a young age when I put the wall on my heart
 Because of childhood lost and the family torn apart
 Never wanting to learn, and not trying to succeed
 But I played a good role at pretending to be happy
 Just going day to day, living a crazy life
 With every passing second just thinking I would die
 All these bad things seemed to happen and I seemed to 
 only cry
 Like I was born with too many feelings, and I had to
 wonder why
 Always seeming to suffer, and it gets so hard to live
 Because the feelings that are lost, it makes me scared
 to give
 Maybe someone will notice, maybe they will see
 That there really are some good pieces of me

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Letting Go

I love you, you said
 So we didn't get out of bed
 Marry me you said
 And it went straight to my head
 Funny I thought how the words were true
 Silly of me to really love you
 A game that you played 
 And oh, I would have stayed
 To hurt and to cry
 Only every night
 But I didn't know love
 Wasn't really supposed to hurt 
 I didn't know you 
 And that is more true
 But I made a life inside
 And lived with it not being so right
 And when you told me to leave
 You cried in my arms, I begged you please
 Don't let me go, 
 From the only thing i did know
 But you made me face the world alone
 With a new baby in my arms
 And I didn't know why
 All the times you would spy
 Wanting us from afar
 But not giving us your heart
 And now I've moved on, yet here you are
 I have to say he's my shining star
 Where have you been, I no longer care
 Of dreams lost and memories shared
 I still don't know you, I can laugh in your face
 And love the one who has taken your place
 So go away, it's been years too late
 Who are you to mess with my fate
Who are you to say where is my son
 Is he smart, is he funny, is he the one
 To make it to the top of every mountain
 Every limb, tell me all about him
 And I say oh, yes, all of the above
 But it wasn't you that showed him all the love
 Where were you the nights he cried
 From fevers, sick, up all night
 When he laughed, when he fell
 Learned to count, and broke out of his shell
 It was someone that stepped on your plate
 Someone who will stay up late
 If he needs to talk, can't sleep
 Helps with the homework, helps him believe
 He is all that he is, and only more
 Shows him options, and to open every door
 Of life, of love, of hope, of trust
 So sit back and watch if you must
 But don't say you're sorry, don't say you're wrong
 That it should've been you all along
 Because I made it happen I make us see
 There is no other, no one like him or like me

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Last Night

Last night I forgot to love you, and you weren't 
 in my dreams
 I didn't feel your arms around me, as funny as
 it seems
 Last night I forgot to miss you, and my heart 
 felt just fine
 I didn't want to hear your voice, since you are 
 no longer mine
 Last night I forgot your smile, and the funny things
 you used to do
 I didn't have to pretend to be happy, since I know
 longer love you
 Last night I forgot how good it felt just to have 
 you there 
 I didn't have to think of the times I knew you'd 
 always care
 Last night I forgot you had my heart at one time,
 even if no one ever knew
 I didn't want to believe I could hurt, since there is 
 no me and you 
 Because I didn't want to remember you told me we should 
 just be friends 
 I didn't act like pain absorbed me, though I wonder 
 if my heart will ever mend

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Fake Love

He says he loves me only when he's had too much to drink
 But he kisses in such a way that my mind forgets to think
 I forget all the pretty faces he's ever know before
 Even the one yesterday he hid behind closed doors
 He doesn't have to know I'm in on his little game
 Cause when I'm in his arms, I know nothing about shame
 He says that it hurts if my body is not near
 But then could it be so easy for him to not give his 
 love to share
 Maybe I can have more, but I only want his lips on my skin
 If I could have it all, I'd only ask for him

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Her Suicide

I hear a knock on the window, yet there's no one there
 Knocking, steady knocking, and it gets so hard to bear
 And sometimes there is nothing, til I feel a gust of wind
 Ever subtle, ever slightly, but I know from deep within
 You are still here, even if it's only when I close my eyes
 You will join me in my dreams, even if I wake up to my cries
 And I hope against hope there's really a heaven for all 
 And I pray for the soul of the girl who did fall
 My own hurt is something that may never be filled
 Dying inside cause I miss you still
 If I could go back, I'd tell you the friend that you were
 The best of the best, now it's all a blur
 I can't help but think of what is our end
 Getting so hard to try and pretend 
 That you are still here, soon you will call
 And this is a bad dream that never happened at all 
 Though I know in my heart this could never be true
 I hope when I hear the knock on my window it's you
 Reaching out somehow from somewhere above
 Still remembering the friendship, the memories, the love

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At Night Alone

So here I sit, at night, alone
  Bored and just too many cigarettes to burn
  So I smoke and I wait, seemingly for a call
  And really just ache, cause it's not coming at all
  You're too many miles away from home
  I feel the distance at night, alone
  I hate you for the restless nights
  And I hate me because I know it's not right
  To sit in front of the computer screen
  Searching for the words I just want to scream
  Not even knowing the pain that I feel
  How to describe what feels so unreal
  I miss, just miss, everything that is you
  Laughing for hours at things that you do
  And how could it be that this is the end
  What was to be a lifetime of new things to begin
  But here I sit, at night alone
  And the numbness inside is all that I know

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Pretend

I can pretend to smile,even pretend to show
 All those great emotions I already did let go
 You took my heart with you when I made you
 walk away
 I guess I've been wrong,is it too late to say
 I really do love you a lot,will you love me  back
 My life has no meaning,without you I seem to lack
 Everything good that ever happened,there's nobody
 else for me
 Just let me love you again,then you will see
 There's nothing good about me not coming home
 to you
 Please don't let me go,I was made just for you

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Lost In a World

I don't look around me, I don't even really see
All the people in my life who really might love me
Because I'm too busy thinking, or just rearranging
the things in my head
Dreaming of better things I want instead
Sometimes I forget what is really real
Always pretending there's something else that I feel
I really have to wonder if I'm even really happy
If I'm trying so hard to be
Sometimes lost in a world that is so hard to bear
Waiting, just waiting, for the something else out there
And wondering about the damage that I may have done
To the person it is that I love
I've just been so numb, so empty inside
Daydreaming life away, so I could hide
And I wish I could stop it, I wish I could let go
Of another life, and just love the one I know
                     Julie Stephenson