Words into Waves
Shane the Poet | Only Anthem
Category: Personal
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You didn’t notice When we all came searching I didn’t notice When I thought I found you I didn’t notice When you disappeared You could’ve thought It was worse than I feared Please don’t go somewhere far away, Please don’t leave me looking for today When it’s time to let go of everything That we’ve…
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Is it too much to say to an audience of one That nobody is listening anymore? That the abandoned buildings came When nobody left Skylines started falling, But the frame work stayed in place Approaching standards We all got carried away If this is all the work of the devil Why is this the intention?…
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My hat is hung on the stray bullets that barely missed, Some attempt it was to end my life You won’t ever find me waiting again The kids who waited for you to come back and make this broken place A functional home The wallpaper we placed to make it feel less empty And those…
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My hat is hung on the stray bullets that barely missed, Swerved just left and saved a kid Had her feet collided with me we would’ve been gone, that’s for sure Then I hung my hat on the stray bullets that missed her If you think about it, you’ll break your own heart And at…
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Stay and put, As we stare at our coverings – painted; Changed Through their eyes we are in need of change With water has brought on our decay In places – we’ve stayed in ours for far too long Remember being young? Bare naked, Handled by hands whom held so many others? Those nights we…
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Remember when you walked away and you thought the door was always open? The sound of the hinges creaking as our views changed? How the wind moved through your hair making it harder to see? How the rain made you cold and warm at the same time? I watched as you looked ahead I heard…
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We will kill the pain at its roots Find the flaw in you and pull it through And I’ll open up your eyes and cover them in glass So the world you will see won’t be the same You will be able to breathe again Just keeping dosing up If they tell you otherwise, shop…
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With this photo of you I’ll hold on to; Memories of your youth I once knew Helpless like weeds, you’ve taken over my health And I wait for water to keep me breathing, I see your roots getting thicker With this photo of you I’ll hold on to; Memories of laughter before you knew what…
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She dreams of stars and asteroids, wonders how many of them exist what if there is life somewhere else? else wise, we only know of ourselves is there any more like ours? out in the infinite, there must be something; that is the only thing she thinks about there; a single star opens her eyes…
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In your absence, I’ve finally become fond of myself again In Your Absence A place in the heart, May forever be A place where our love was All of the nights gone by won’t be the forgotten ones Exposed, Cold lies to the truth A forgotten face, Forgot how to live in this broken place…