Shane the Poet | Only Anthem
I see fake people everywhere I look,Does that make me insane? We thought we built our love with Adobe, turns out it was just mud not properly placedSo let our veins explode in love or hateAs I’m kicking these monsters out, I’m just hoping you let me back in. Yet as we stare at yellow…
You are the sunrise, right before the storm, your words like cyclones are just hitting home, I could flood the streets just from this, and hope you would carry me You sit down next to me and say things will be fine, you lay awake saying you can’t be mineYou once said you’d never let…
You are the worlds best everythingYou have a way with me, because you can You make me feel much more than a man, you make me feel alive insideYou are my world, she is my universeBeaten down by what you need, my thick skin sheds away.It’s eating me like cancerBut I love every moment I…
storm the grounds, mad as cows, diseased, and ready to dieenjoy every second of it, as this is truly our last shot at being everythingbecoming our whole hearted ghosts.you say we are so much more than flesh and bone,we are so much less than giftswe are barely donations looking for something to answer all of…
where we phase into some form of guiltoh sun, dance us into a different stage of beingwho cares anyway? aren’t we all just ghosts?some form of illusion painted by someone else’s brush?why are the bristles stuck on the canvas?our portrait was painted in pain. if I could make you something you want to be, I…
I believed in this relationship between you and Ias more than some short fling that could fall apart over anythingI choked back tears and held back fears and gave it my allI look in your direction with a sense of accomplishmentthis is just like you I felt so much strongerand you broke me down, you…
In days, life changes faster than you can countwe pace the corridors, hoping for progress,rushing the horses out of the gates, maybe they should notforgive the trees for the sap that leaks out, after all, who can one be to control it?the parasites are digging up all the dirty tricks in the evening news, and…
all the time has passed that led us herenext to one other night after nightand nothing has made me this happy in my entire lifelike a child on their first ride I started off scared, but nowI never want this to end when I fell asleep you sat on my minds corner waiting for it…
restless, today went according to no plan that I knowwhen the flames were ignited, my greatest fears were excitedand then you eventually had to leavemy restless mind couldn’t stand knowing you were gonefingers tapped, my tears kept fallingand as I waited for you to come home,I decided to leavewith no clouds in the sky, it…
back to bruised backspaper novels harder to turn to dust than ash woodfolded delicacies into whipped desires, I can see it nowall that you hold turns to ice, stone, coldyou have the world in your hands, I am unsafeat the drop of the dime you drop the ball and walk awayafraid and ashamed of your upbringing…