While I'm here...A couple things that I've written.
Drunk
Drunk, befuddled and drunk
Drunk like a skunk on the bottom bunk
This bed is not mine, he says
And who would’ve thunk
Another drunk hook up to prove he’s no monk
He’s a man with the courage to hide himself away
And bring out his senses on some rainy day
But tonight he threw caution out into the wind
And your bed looks so warm that he’d like to step in
To the rain, to the rain, to find his senses again
He’s a man with the passion to lie to your face
To say that he loves you and hide his disgrace
But tonight there are no morals and no more to fear
And he’ll hide all his sadness in his last pint of beer
To the love, to the love, and the stars up above.
And you know that he cares
And you’ll tell him you’re scared
And he says, baby it’s alright
Because if there is anything you have to fright
It’s the fact that his condom just doesn’t fit right
And you’ll tell him the news, like you’ve got nothing to lose
And you’ll never hear from him again.
And this passionate man with his courageous pride
Makes you regret all those beautiful lies
To the lies, to the lies, that brought tears to your eyes.
Normal Lives
I sit alone in my apartment down in Normal, Illinois
While you sit with him in a coffee shop in Bartlett
I pass the time by sitting here and drinking
You smile wide, and all the while, repressing all the mem’ries…of me.
We met outside a high school
I was coming out of a break up
We were introduced, and I fancied you,
But I still had an ex girlfriend.
She led me on for a couple months,
And I let you slip into the background.
I never gave a second thought
To the girl that slipped away.
Well I got fucked over
And that’s no surprise
I left that school
With some tears in my eyes
And I came back home…to you
We hooked up a couple times and it was pretty great.
We did a show, how was I to know that you wanted to date.
So I gave in, threw my heart in the ring said
I’ll take this, I’ll take anything.
And I never looked back…
And you were always there to calm my nerves,
I was there to hold back the screaming.
It was always love and never a fear
I was wide awake while you were dreaming
Of someone else who could love you more
And I never saw a warning
And then we’d embrace because I was so near
But it all came down to the morning.
A two year hiatus from normalcy,
Way too normal for me to see
That you had your doubts and you had your fears
But never let me into
What was going on inside you
Till that Monday night where we had our fight
And I put it out on the line
I said it was fine and I’d understand
And you finally expressed your feelings.
Months have gone by and I can see
That you’re no longer about me.
With someone new to ruin you
I won’t be your shoulder again.
You Know
You know, I’ll always remember the way you looked.
Yeah, I know that sounds ridiculous, but it’s true.
Not the way you look now, but they way you used to look;
the way you looked when I first met you.
Your hair was bland, you eyebrows unkempt,
and your skin pale with bags under your eyes.
I know that doesn’t sound very attractive to you,
but it was the way you looked that first time
that made me fall in love with you.
You didn’t care how you looked and it-
No, I mean you cared,
but you didn’t go out of your way to
make yourself drop dead gorgeous.
I mean, you were gorgeous then, but…
Ok, let me get back on topic.
I’ll miss the way you looked.
I’ll miss your blasé attitude about certain things;
I’ll miss your love for great music
and horrible/amazing movies.
I’ll miss how you taught me to be a better person.
No, it’s true, you did. For the first time in my life,
I knew what it was like to live for another person for once,
and not just for myself. But, this is the end, isn’t it?
Yeah…I thought so.
There’s really nothing I can do to change your mind?
No?
I figured there wouldn’t be.
And you sure this wasn’t my fault?
I keep asking that because I can’t believe
that it wasn’t in some way my fault. It has to be.
I mean, how can it not be?
Yeah, so they might involve Kaitlin, but the second and third one were written during the summer.
Drunk, befuddled and drunk
Drunk like a skunk on the bottom bunk
This bed is not mine, he says
And who would’ve thunk
Another drunk hook up to prove he’s no monk
He’s a man with the courage to hide himself away
And bring out his senses on some rainy day
But tonight he threw caution out into the wind
And your bed looks so warm that he’d like to step in
To the rain, to the rain, to find his senses again
He’s a man with the passion to lie to your face
To say that he loves you and hide his disgrace
But tonight there are no morals and no more to fear
And he’ll hide all his sadness in his last pint of beer
To the love, to the love, and the stars up above.
And you know that he cares
And you’ll tell him you’re scared
And he says, baby it’s alright
Because if there is anything you have to fright
It’s the fact that his condom just doesn’t fit right
And you’ll tell him the news, like you’ve got nothing to lose
And you’ll never hear from him again.
And this passionate man with his courageous pride
Makes you regret all those beautiful lies
To the lies, to the lies, that brought tears to your eyes.
Normal Lives
I sit alone in my apartment down in Normal, Illinois
While you sit with him in a coffee shop in Bartlett
I pass the time by sitting here and drinking
You smile wide, and all the while, repressing all the mem’ries…of me.
We met outside a high school
I was coming out of a break up
We were introduced, and I fancied you,
But I still had an ex girlfriend.
She led me on for a couple months,
And I let you slip into the background.
I never gave a second thought
To the girl that slipped away.
Well I got fucked over
And that’s no surprise
I left that school
With some tears in my eyes
And I came back home…to you
We hooked up a couple times and it was pretty great.
We did a show, how was I to know that you wanted to date.
So I gave in, threw my heart in the ring said
I’ll take this, I’ll take anything.
And I never looked back…
And you were always there to calm my nerves,
I was there to hold back the screaming.
It was always love and never a fear
I was wide awake while you were dreaming
Of someone else who could love you more
And I never saw a warning
And then we’d embrace because I was so near
But it all came down to the morning.
A two year hiatus from normalcy,
Way too normal for me to see
That you had your doubts and you had your fears
But never let me into
What was going on inside you
Till that Monday night where we had our fight
And I put it out on the line
I said it was fine and I’d understand
And you finally expressed your feelings.
Months have gone by and I can see
That you’re no longer about me.
With someone new to ruin you
I won’t be your shoulder again.
You Know
You know, I’ll always remember the way you looked.
Yeah, I know that sounds ridiculous, but it’s true.
Not the way you look now, but they way you used to look;
the way you looked when I first met you.
Your hair was bland, you eyebrows unkempt,
and your skin pale with bags under your eyes.
I know that doesn’t sound very attractive to you,
but it was the way you looked that first time
that made me fall in love with you.
You didn’t care how you looked and it-
No, I mean you cared,
but you didn’t go out of your way to
make yourself drop dead gorgeous.
I mean, you were gorgeous then, but…
Ok, let me get back on topic.
I’ll miss the way you looked.
I’ll miss your blasé attitude about certain things;
I’ll miss your love for great music
and horrible/amazing movies.
I’ll miss how you taught me to be a better person.
No, it’s true, you did. For the first time in my life,
I knew what it was like to live for another person for once,
and not just for myself. But, this is the end, isn’t it?
Yeah…I thought so.
There’s really nothing I can do to change your mind?
No?
I figured there wouldn’t be.
And you sure this wasn’t my fault?
I keep asking that because I can’t believe
that it wasn’t in some way my fault. It has to be.
I mean, how can it not be?
Yeah, so they might involve Kaitlin, but the second and third one were written during the summer.