SHOOT THE MESSENGER & OTHER VERSES FROM "ONE YEAR"

SHOOT THE MESSENGER

I walk the corridors of my mind
And climb the stairs of a similar kind
I check each void, each space, each room
I search for answers in the gloom
I'll never know what attracted you to me
A higher power is privy to answers be
When questioned in my lowest ebb
You know, those early morn hours you lie in bed
All I see is a smile and a shake of head
I'm not to know I'm told instead
I question my beliefs almost every day
And yet I believe more deeply with each passing day
I wonder in sadness and yet in an awesome way
Oh to be me, I hear you say
But would you really if only you knew
What lies beyond beliefs beyond that sky of blue
The heavy chains of responsibility that bind and gag
Tongues must be kept silenced, no cats let out the bag
For when you try to forewarn
And try to protect others you love from harm
An old saying, 'shoot the messenger' comes to mind
And all you are doing is bestowing love and trying to be kind

MPB (c)

CUPID'S SURPRISE

How it happened I don't know
Crept up unknowing, couldn't walk away
Just couldn't let you go
I tried to put you out of my mind
But you were there, always there
And you were so sweet and kind
Cupid's arrows have this way
Of striking the unaware
And making the struck, stay
Of trying to run away and hide
I just could no longer hold back the tide
So here I am bearing my soul
I give you my heart, its tattered and barely whole
But it feels right to let you have it such as it is
My head is swimming with thoughts such as this
You crept in under my skin
I'm smiling as I say, I wasn't going to let you in!
But you've etched your impression on my brain
And now I can no longer be the same
So I stand before you and look deep in to your eyes
And know for all of cupid's surprise
No one is more so than I
No point in arguing, why?
Just accept we don't chose when to fall in love

MPB (c)

HOLLOW PROMISES

For all that is said and done
I always thought you the one
in spite of what you think of me
I know what I feel
For me it is real
I don't know why you want to hurt
I don't know why it has to be like this
For all I know what's in my heart
And although I'm coping it aches to be apart
I feel I've lost all my limbs
For something as so stupid as a whim
And built up out of all proportion
And truth became all a distortion
But I meant what I said, yes its true
For unconditionally I love you
I loved enough to let you fly free
For I always knew you'd part from me
For when I love, I love so deeply
I give of myself my soul completely
So I said goodbye even though it cut me deep
For I knew deep inside, your heart wasn't mine to keep
Forgotten promises you made to me
You shouldn't have made those hollow pleas
I wish you'd tell me why you told those lies
I wish you'd give me closure by telling me why

MPB (c)

I'M DONE YOU'VE LOST

With a heavy heart I said goodbye
There was nothing left but pauses anger and sighs
A delusion and so many torrid tales
Reality beckoned loves dream failed
Closure such a sad lonely word gone
truth and foggy eyed mists I'm done
A fool to believe all the lies told
An idiot to be taken in tied up and sold
A delusional silly stupid fantasy
A silly tale story of of tinsel town ectasy
But still I have a heavy heart
A knife is twisted Im done you've lost now apart

MPB (c)

From "ONE YEAR" due to be launched end of February 2009




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