#god forbid me have a cold sprite when i come home

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someone literally broke into my apartment just to drink 2 cans of sprite.

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Shayfer James: The Owl and the Elephant Album Starters

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Life is Beautiful

“ I think I found a passage out of here ” “ Maybe we could make our great escape ” “ You didn’t think we’d make it, did you, dear? ” “ Somewhere in this dark you lost your faith ” “ ‘Cause life is beautiful ” “ Save all your prayers while [we’re] gone ” “ I think I see some sunlight peeking through ” “ It won’t be very long until [we’re] done ” “ I will be a hero, so will you ” “ Just look up and scream ” “ Hey- can any one- can anyone hear me? ” “ If they follow us, you go ahead, I’ll meet you there ”

Bayonnettes

“ Her lies match her dress ” “ His eyes speak his past ” “ Oh, this bed and this mess were both made ” “ These broken promises fix Bayonnettes ” “ This is your nightmare ” “ This is your fairytale love ” “ That look in your eyes is certain to try and divide us ” “ This is your night ” “ How will I get along? ”

Siren Song

“ [She] got the mystery of a masquerade ” “ [She] make a meal of crow and watch you beg for it ” “ [She] got the wisdom of a whispered scream ” “ [She] build your prison in a dirty dream ” “ [She] got the beauty of a thousand ships ” “ [She] break your body with her bag of tricks ” “ Surely as the moon will rise, [she’ll] fasten daggers to your eyes ” “ [She] waited for her prince to come and shot him with his royal gun ” “ Look who’s laughing now, baby ” “ Big hunter man become the prey ” “ The siren song begins to play ” “ Got the kind of love that’ll call you back ” “ It’ll bleed you there and watch you crack on the floor ” “ This has got to be the end ” “ For all this outwitting there is no forgiving ” “ You can’t go on living when Heaven’s forbidding ”

When Heaven Closes

“ We’ve a chain of bloomless roses ” “ Drink disdain in double doses ” “ Dig my grave when Heaven closes ” “ Picture me in painted poses; incomplete and out of focus ” “ And if I’m already dead, this heavy weight upon my head, a simple stone that bares my name; above, the words: himself to blame ” “ The words plead dig my grave when Heaven closes ”

Tombstone Road

“ The air in here is getting thick from all the dirty cigarette tricks ” “ I can feel my inside turning black ” “ If words were dollars I’d want mine back ” “ Everybody gather ‘round ” “ Better head for higher ground ” “ I’m gonna burn this building down ” “ You know for every Tombstone Road they pave, they're gonna throw a ticker tape parade ” “ Every thousand years that trickle by they’ll find another prophet to crucify ” “ I’m gonna burn this village down ”  “ When they’re warm and cozy in their beds ” “ We’re gonna paint ourselves black and red ” “ We’re gonna batter down the gilded doors ” “ Writing on the walls and the ceilings, and the floors ” “ Anywhere we fancy the truth belongs ” “ We’re gonna burn this city down ”

Your Father’s Son

“ Wielding words like aimless arrows ” “ You should be careful where you stand ” “ It could be days, it could be hours ” “ Every arrow’s got to land ” “ If you’re any good at riddles, you should take a crack at this ” “ If every second has a fiddle, does every razor have a wrist? ” “ It fits so well, what you’ve become ” “ Your father’s son, which will never be much of anyone ” “ Stealing time in raids and riots, now you’ve more than you can hold ” “ You’re gambling with a giant from some fiarytale you told ” “ If you’re any good at bluffing, I suggest you do it quick ” “ Everyone is next to nothing and every tock will have a tick ” “ It fits so well ” “ Your father’s son ” “ What you’ve become cannot be undone ” “ You’ll never come to much of anyone ” “ God help you if you ever need a friend ” “ God help you if you ever... Ever... ”

Every Fallen Feather

“ My angel didn’t fall, [she] landed ” “ In sprite of what Gods commanded ” “ [She] nourished my eyes wearing only [her] wings ” “ We stayed up all night doing Heavenly things ” “ [She] told me they would come find [her], that were wasn’t any way to hide [her] ” “ I bolted the doors like the fool that I am ” “ I cried in [her] arms, I am only a man ” “ That might be true, but I think much more of you ” “ For seven days I walked beside [her] ” “ For seven nights I slept inside [her] ” “I woke up with a cold on my skin and a space in place where [her] face should have been ” “ I knew that they had come to get [her] ” “ So I gathered every fallen feather ” “ [She] had warned me of this but I always refused ” “ [She] said I’d move on, because that’s what men do ” “ As the years go by, I’ll be looking to the Heavens ” “ I went to search the sky one morning ” “ I saw [her] on the ground before me, with a tear in [her] eye and a bruise on [her] chin, and a wound on [her] back where [her] wings should have been ” “ I knelt down at [her] side to touch [her] ” “ [She] told me that the fall had crushed [her] ” “ In exchange for [her] sins I’d be damned for all time ” “ [She] gave them [her] wings if it meant I’d get mine ” “ I held [her] as the sun was rising ” “ I whispered as [her] heart was fighting ” “ I’ll pray for the day that those fools follow through, ‘cause I’ll make them all pay for what they’ve done to you ”

Grind My Bones

“ I am a moment slowly dying ” “ Soon I will only cross your mind from time to time ” “ I’ll be the pattern in your ceiling cracks as you resist another glass of wine ” “ I am a solitary sentence ” “ I share not poetry or prose and everybody knows ” “ I have no marvelous inflection; just random letters grouped in lines and rows ” “ I’m waiting for the Lord up above to grind my bones ” “ The walls around us crumble ” “ Watch all the idiots and hypocrites rebel ” “ You are two dashes and a number ” “ All of your complaining couldn’t save you from yourselves ” “ You’re prayin’ to the ghost in your blood to save your soul ” “ Luckily I’m not alone, there’s many here around me ” “ In every fist there is a stone that’s set to cast ” “ Once upon a time I was lost and nothing found me ” “ You better know that when I go, I’m going fast ” “ I’m waiting for the Lord upon above to guide me home ”

Insincerely Yours

“ I do appreciate your concern ” “ I never met a match I couldn’t burn ” “ I’m designed for the strike, and inclined to ignite ” “ It’s a fact I often hesitate to tell ” “ Like a window at the bottom of a well ” “ It resides out of sight, but it shines pretty bright ” “ When you face the reflection of how far you fell ” “ Oh, the fun we’ll have ” “ I’ll be yours, with exceptions of course ” “ I’ll be insincerely yours ” “ I’ll indulge in every story that you tell ” “ You’ll be waiting for my love to keep you warm ” “ You’ll choke with remorse when my ship changes course for a port with a harbor more sturdy than yours ” “ Please believe I never meant you harm ” “ If you believe that, dear, you’ve got a lot to learn ”

For Now, Goodbye

“ There is a wall through which I dare not step ” “ Mahogany and stone ” “ We have been warned time and time again ” “ There is a lantern shining dark upon this winters day ” “ I am equal parts a criminal and a king ” “ I would steal to be the master of a thing ” “ But for now, goodbye ” “ For now ” “ For now, goodbye ” “ There’s a riverbank we sinners must descend ” “ Perhaps I’d rather be a man who burns than one who hesitates ” “ I have memorized the lines of our repose ” “ The fragrance of each mystery we compose is in my skin somehow ” “ I would tremble in the hands of my disgrace ” “ Lick the sweat of our salvation from your face ”