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I Know This Is Paradise

I know this is paradise
The moon light beats upon the
Window pane and as it does
Reflects the hectic, frantic
Mood of this part of my life.
Bouncing back off reflections
Show the mayhem that swallows
Us whole as we spin madly
Drinking more drunker, drunker
Falling back into darkness
To be absorbed by it all

I know this is paradise,
The morning after. Headaches,
Tired limbs, weary faces
But still jokes roll off our tongues
Reliving and discussing
All the infrequent interests
That tend to break their cover
And surface during such nights      

I know this is paradise
Even in my lowest hour
mid-night but to long past twelve
early into the morning
a break of pace, contemplate
What other things could have been
Though they’re beyond your control

I know this is paradise
I’m surrounded by those I love

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I'M Wide Awake, the Dreams Are Gone (Part 1)

I woke from a dream the other day
To find the memories that had run
To faded images and distorted sounds
Of what was the lingering sensation
Of a blissful oblivion

I woke from a dream the other day
The monotone greys that filled the air
And notes that sounded flat as they rang out
Made me long for that one sensation
Of a blissful oblivion

I woke from a dream again today
Clinging to the one memory that
Had lasted as the rest faded from my eyes
A perfect picture of your face entwined
With such a beautiful grace

I woke from a dream again today
the images had faded, turned to
nothing as the reality had brought me crashing
back to earth with nothing but my mattress 
and pillow to break my fall

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Missed, But Only Through Looking

The cold curls round as the dark unfurls,
To a night that’s grim.
A glint of a hope for a ray of light,
To break forth and shatter,
To remove and replace the silence with a sound,
For warmth to spill,
From our desire its own desire to be heard,
To be held and to matter
Hope that holds and binds it,
The same hope that blinds you,
To what’s already in front of you,
You missed her but only through looking.

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Maybe Only Just For One

As the end draws near and all quiets down
The mood shifts to one of sombre tone
Those around wrapped in the art of conversation
Talking, listening to what the other has say
But the conversation dies down
We settle for the comfortable silence
That drifts in between like old friends
Resting, propped against a shoulder
The other with head laid on head 
The silence that passes form one to the other
As both drift towards sleep says enough.
But maybe only just for one

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Lifting, But Forever Felt In Vain

To every tortured soul upon the surface of this earth
Happiness and prosperity are a perspective learnt from birth
Measured not by money or the sum of all your worth
But by life as it pulses through your veins

So walking all alone across this dark and dreary ball
A curse that’s set in motion by the feelings that you hold
To hold them in like poison, to wait for them to pass
Will undo you as quick as you were made

We walk upon this corkscrew path of life and love and loss
The dusty path before us moves with time until we give up
Never moving forward, but neither moving back
Stuck in life alone ‘till we depart

To ponder on the past, regret and wish what could have been done
To turn a page backwards and to start over anew
The hopes and dreams of others, to far away from you
Lifting, but forever felt in vain

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Hope (I'M Wide Awake, the Dreams Are Gone Part 2)

We haven’t got long the daylight is coming
Creeping through the curtains disturbing this sleep
The morning has broken this dream turns to ashes
You smile it fades like an old photograph
But worry not lover for ill be back soon
When night has fallen by the light of the moon
But before this is over just one final hope
That when I awake ill see you
Someday soon

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Hidden Flags

You remind me of how this suburban life could be so much more
than this sea of green and speckled grey if only you would open up you heart.
But these hidden flags that you keep up that fly a mix from every shade and colour of an
emotional spectrum

But you’re the cold and distant rocky shore on the horizon of,
An otherwise dull yet peaceful sea

You remind of how this suburban life could be so much more
Than the domestic lull of pots and pans and telephones and old wooden floors
That formed the near perfectly flawed and broken picture of hidden fights and troubles 
Of what we once called home

But you’re the cold and distant rocky shore on the horizon of,
An otherwise dull yet peaceful sea