so this is it

this is where the song begins

musical alliances

strumming all along

stepping on the dance floor

this is where the lights go dim

channel all the heat within

words come out but run so thin

like dissipating smoke

lean a little, lean a lot

don't go anywhere, please

a whisper may be all we've got

baby, don't go anywhere

(still in progress)

fellow cinderella

my fellow cinderella

we each had a string of pearls

each day we ran our fingers down along and counted each one

my fellow sleeping beauty

we each believed in love

sleeping on a bed of roses we were made for waking

you're the other cleopatra

make the ships sail, make them sink

we'll make them go in circles 'round the earth to find us

my fellow cinderella

come on and make a beauty out of me

fellow cinderella

no fellow knows the beauty you make out of me

Discovery

Discovery

Amanda MacLean

What a paradise this is
This little orb
A garden state
A maze of greens and blues
Triangulating

Transliteration on the wall
Inside my pocket as you call to me
From the other side of space
The red and yellow, black on white
Ocean depths on mountain heights
The resurrection of a stillborn seed

I'll embrace you, but beware of me

does it ever get better
will i ever get a letter from you?
four dimes, eight pennies taped
to the outside of a paper folded and stuck to the thoughts in your head.

will it ever be over?
this part of the ride,
like the thick muddy water left behind by the rain
the way i feel so afraid of the night.

do the pictures ever line up together?
in the end will we be together?
some shadows aren't worth hiding
some voices won't be silenced

Honey, put on your striped collared shirt

your dark sunglasses and your tinted glare

stare out the window of your cavalier

and keep me from swallowing you alive...

knock on the door and tell me I'm pretty

Tell me I'm the only thing you see

Knock on the window

Climb up the drainpipe

Drown me, baby, with ballads and breezes

Put on your polos, I'll handle your briefcase

Run my hands through your gel-slicked hair and watch you go to work

Every day is different with your company at hand

I'll take this any day.

(gel-slicked hair? really?)

where you went

Where you went all this time
I've sure got a rhyme or two
To say about it
Where you went tell me please
I'd sure love to join you
Behind the curtain
Let's go sail in the dark
Take our ship to those high seas they speak of in stories you told me
I wanna go there with you
Go anywhere with you

Goodbye was never a word that I learned
Goodbye, I'm telling you now
Goodbye wasn't a word that I wanted to tell you

I could wait around

For romeo
But I'm just not that kind of girl
I'm the girl who needs
To tell you that I'm here

I would wait around
Till I became another girl
But I've been waiting so so long already
I need to tell you that I'm here

I wanna show up on your doorstep tomorrow
And sing with you just to see how it feels
Tyu
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(written on my phone while falling asleep...hence the "tyu" which is not an intelligible word in the English lexicon)

The thing about that night was

I was trying to wear a sign I couldn'd hold

human mind machine

human mind machine
never switches back to "off"
working thru the weather
working thru the night

human mind machine
you don't cease to amaze
human mind machine
how do you see so much?

you never miss a bit
you never miss a smile
you're always carrying a tune
you never slow down
I try to watch you one day
I try to read along
following your code
something always stops me
human mind machine
throws a wrench into the tears

two eyes
the world will never see

The shells I find on the beach of my mind
Skeletons of what I once believed
They crawled along the ocean
Moved the sand along
They crawled along the ocean
Tried to be whatever they could

I don't know what's good
I don't know what's crawling in the sand right now
Polishing the rocks
Swimming in my tears
Swimming through the fears
What made those skeletons drown?

I love being near myself
I love being here by myself

I'm gonna think about you
Till the lights come on again
I'm gonna think about you
Till I finally pick up my pen
I'm gonna think about you,
been thinking since
(God knows when)
I'm gonna think it all through
And then do it all over again

I'm gonna watch you breathe
Gonna watch you move
I'm gonna watch your eyes as they light the way
I'm gonna peel your skin off the sides of this afternoon
And watch the moon shine down
I don't see any clouds tonight

(go for a third verse!)

I'm gonna walk by the ocean
Gonna walk by the sea
I'm gonna tell my emotions, now you listen to me
You listen to me
I'm gonna find out who's ready
Gonna find out who swims the best and the fastest
and send them to you with the hope that
You'll come back for the rest yourself someday.