take my mind

this world by Alistair Chong

i guess it doesn't go my way
not today
not for a while
i'll just run myself dry
keep these legs going
keep all of this pent up inside
once again
and burn it all
collapsing bridges once more
running, running

reached out and fell

short again by Alistair Chong

days come
when nothing works
and everything's messed
headspace is broken
tension snaps, too tense
promises broken
like everyone else before
just the same
nothing different
another disappointment
when it thought differently
i guess not

when to care

whatever by Alistair Chong

i would have thrown it all
run it all
swam the ocean
just for you
i would have
had to crawl
tear me open
just for you
and you know it
so turn away
it's fine by me.
try finding something like that
again

candle light

the end by Alistair Chong

chapter ends
of one love tale
opens with another
flowers, candles and words
vows, wishes to her
giving everything
this story
reminding of what's empty
now

what's like home

root by Alistair Chong

back to here
where something
sorts itself
a little bit of chaos
brought back in
and smoothed
but not enough
to keep all of this in check
these cracks snaking through
threatening to shatter

isn't it

so easy by Alistair Chong

i lost you didn't i
and it was easy
i'm being replaced aren't i
discarding me
not enough
wasn't i
easily enough

whirlwind feeling

just outside by Alistair Chong

roses at your door
waiting, waiting
what's a reason in itself
there is none
trying to find a way
to lose this anxiety

stop the world

aimless by Alistair Chong

words exchange
empty, hanging
trying to find something
sitting, waiting
pen on white
tends to write
an empty picture
rain and windows
broken flowers
endless hours

lying awake

effortless by Alistair Chong

some days they say
are easier than others
i just haven't found them
and you don't make them come
if you could feel
what i have inside
and everything that's not
this space, crushing space
if you could just know

before the worst

where's that person by Alistair Chong

don't understand
what is going on
are you here for me
but really gone
where's the same person
from before
before feelings changed
before circumstance
sentiments forgotten
but still inside

near the bottom

no more left by Alistair Chong

there's no answer
searching for an exit
in this endless maze
watching everything
fall down the drain
going going gone
further away from me
wishing you'd just hold my hand
and tell me it's alright

i see you

everywhere by Alistair Chong

close my eyes and listen to sounds
washing over again
hurting inside the pain it resounds
inside that empty space
the moment slipped away
before i can share
this beautiful array
gone before ever being there

rolling by

the grove by Alistair Chong

out the back window
watching myself passing by
wheels roll
and i'm behind
in this world of faces
searching for one
for any possibility

gone

all these pieces by Alistair Chong

this is it
broken down
the walls i try to hold
crumbled to the ground
this is me
a crippled mess
what used to be
now torn with emptiness
this is all
sleepless nights
empty days
just no more fight
is there anyone out
walking by
sit here with me
share my cry
are you there?
are you there?


Happiness by The Fray

Happiness is just outside my window
I thought it crash blowing 80-miles an hour
Or is happiness a little more like knocking
On your door, and you just let it in?

Happiness feels a lot like sorrow
Let it be, you can’t make it come or go
But you are gone- not for good but for now
Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good

Happiness is a firecracker sitting on my headboard
Happiness was never mine to hold
Careful child, light the fuse and get away
‘Cause happiness throws a shower of sparks

Happiness damn near destroys you
Breaks your faith to pieces on the floor
So you tell yourself, that’s enough for now
Happiness has a violent roar

Happiness is like the old man told me
Look for it, but you’ll never find it all
But let it go, live your life and leave it
Then one day, wake up and she’ll be home
Home, home, home

burn it down

dry by Alistair Chong

some days
are emotionally dry
tired from being strung up high
low enough to give up
on feeling enough
enough of anything
keep me numb
it's so much easier

mail

send by Alistair Chong

send
send these words
from the blood in my heart
seeping through myself
with everything inside
the emptiness and all i feel
send.

isn't it enough

rip by Alistair Chong

tears inside
drowning me through
these dead eyes
need to see you
where's the faith
find it in yourself
please, don't leave it be

all i need is you

crashing by Alistair Chong

can't take it all
watch me slip and fall
i'm sorry
i'm sorry
there's no strength inside
all i want
curl up and cry

why am i home

losing shine by Alistair Chong

friday lights
don't shine anymore
nothing to look to
in the darkened corridors
of life
where are you?

feelings

don't die please by Alistair Chong

love won't die
until there comes a time
when i could just try
try and love you so
i pray you don't let go
remember how you felt
one year ago
searching for a way


Yellow by Coldplay

Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah, they were all yellow.

I came along,
I wrote a song for you,
And all the things you do,
And it was called yellow.

So then I took my turn,
Oh what a thing to have done,
And it was all yellow.

Your skin
Oh yeah, your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
You know, you know I love you so,
You know I love you so.

I swam across,
I jumped across for you,
Oh what a thing to do.
'Cause you were all yellow.

I drew a line,
I drew a line for you,
Oh what a thing to do,
And it was all yellow.

Your skin,
Oh yeah your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
And you know for you,
I'd bleed myself dry for you,
I'd bleed myself dry.

Its true, look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine.
Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And all the things that you do.

if you could just

just have those times again by Alistair Chong

don't you ever wish
the rewind button was on
back to the summer
where nothing was wrong
it was simple
just us
day after day
of nothing much
but meaning everything
God, i wish i could
just rewind.
please rewind

back then

don't you miss by Alistair Chong

everywhere i look
i remember
a ghost of the past
watching over
sweetness called upon the wind
breaking me down again
just share me again
please

bleed myself dry

now is too soon by Alistair Chong

where there once was
a place to lean on
i'm falling again
all these memories
i'd smile on
marked with never again
if you'd ever take me
once again

messed

emptied by Alistair Chong

crash and burn
try my best to turn
away from the train
but it searches for me again
i'm alone.
i'm alone.
please don't leave it like that

not like this

everything crumbles by Alistair Chong

the same place we took our memories
and froze them in time
do you remember?
the same wind and water
that perfect harmony they'd write
last november

and as the busker on the bridge plays amazing grace
i hear words i can't hear you say
that you're letting go

don't do this to me
i gave my everything
don't say you can turn away
it's too much to me

every day i thought of you
took every chance i dared to
ran into the night
and now nothing's breaking my fall
the end of it all
no one telling me it's alright

and as the busker on the bridge plays amazing grace
tears stream in this final embrace
don't ever let me go

don't do this to me
i gave my everything
don't say you can turn away
you're too much to me

all these things we'd never do
before the end
everything i said to you
ever again
so much that hasn't been said
this isn't the way this is supposed to end

i'm broken
falling apart
falling apart


4 AM Forever by Lostprophets

Yesterday I lost my closest friend
Yesterday I wanted time to end
I wonder if my heart will ever mend
I just let you slip away

4 AM forever

Maybe I'll never see you smile again
Maybe you thought that it was all pretend;
All these words that I could never say
I just let them slip away

4 AM forever

Why don't you hear me when
I'm calling out to you
Why don't you listen when
I try to make it through to you
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, you never know
Hold a little tighter

4 AM forever

Maybe one day when I can move along
Maybe someday when you can hear this song
You won't let it slip away

4 AM forever

And I'd wish the sun would never come
It's 4 AM and you are gone
I hope you know you're letting go
It's 4 AM and I'm alone

Why don't you hear me when
I'm calling out to you
Why don't you listen when
I try to make it through to you
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, you never know
Hold a little tighter

Why don't you hear me when
I'm calling out to you
Why don't you listen when
I try to make it through to you
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, you never know
Hold a little tighter

4 AM forever

can't get what i need

insomnia by Alistair Chong

barely slipping through
hardly getting by
no one here to sing this lullaby
not tonight

shared

can't you just remember by Alistair Chong

i'm still here
please don't drop me out
waiting for these days
to turn around

longest days

please choose right by Alistair Chong

how am i
supposed to stand upright
waiting for you back to lean on
why don't you know?

the wait

cold settling in by Alistair Chong

more days
come and go
not knowing
how this goes

i'm waiting

rebuilding walls by Alistair Chong

i have to dam it all in
push it below the surface
keep all this hurt within
how long can i take this?
you were my escape
letting it free
but there's no out take
not this week.
you say keep away
from all these hard things
i can't take it day after day
i want to tell you everything.
but you need this air
to get all this through
and i couldn't bear
to barely hurt you.

so here's the air
i'm running out of air

do not keep open

fire escape by Alistair Chong

please don't run
the space suffocates
and this space inside
is getting so dry
without you near

you edged in
put your foot in
the crack in the door
and slowly taught me
to stop holding onto it all
you grew to be my security
the kryptonite
to my invincibility

and now, the skies they scream
don't do it again
this fire door, do not obstruct,
do not keep open
these hinges will end up broken
but my heart begs for you
to come back in
be my weakness
my fire escape from this furnace i'm in

i need to believe
that there will be a day
that dawn breaks
through this night hanging over me


With Me by Sum 41

I don't want this moment to ever end
Where everything's nothing without you
I'll wait here forever just to, to see you smile
'Cause it's true, I am nothing without you

Through it all,
I made my mistakes
I stumble and fall,
but I mean these words

I want you to know
With everything I won't let this go,
These words are my heart and soul
I'll hold on to this moment you know,
As I bleed my heart out to show
And I won't let go

Thoughts read unspoken, forever in doubt
Pieces of memories fall to the ground
I know what I didn't have so, I won't let this go
'Cause it's true, I am nothing without you

All the streets
Where I walked alone,
With nowhere to go
I've come to an end

I want you to know
With everything I won't let this go,
These words are my heart and soul
I'll hold on to this moment you know,
As I bleed my heart out to show
And I won't let go

In front of your eyes,
It falls from the skies
When you don't know what you're looking to find
In front of your eyes,
It falls from the skies
When you just never know what you will find

I don't want this moment to ever end
Where everything's nothing without you

I want you to know
With everything I won't let this go,
These words are my heart and soul
I'll hold on to this moment you know,
As I bleed my heart out to show
And I won't let go