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    April 14, 2020 / No Comments

    Be my sanctuary
    I know it’s not ordinary of me
    But I can’t get enough of you
    I could be in love with you
    So be true
    ‘Cause I know
    I know, I know, I know you

    When you’re away
    I promise you’ll stay in my heart
    If you stay
    I promise you’ll stay in my heart
    You’ll stay in my heart

    ‘Cause you bring me
    Somewhere so beautiful
    You make me
    Feel so beautiful
    You take me
    Somewhere so beautiful
    And you know it’s you

    I could be your gambling machine
    And you could put the money in me
    Can’t call the bluff on you
    I could be in love with you
    So be true
    ‘Cause I know
    I know, I know, I know you

    When you’re away
    I promise you’ll stay in my heart
    If you stay
    I promise you’ll stay in my heart
    You’ll stay in my heart

    ‘Cause you bring me
    Somewhere so beautiful
    You make me
    Feel so beautiful
    You take me
    Somewhere so beautiful
    And you know it’s you
    You know it’s you
    You know it’s you
    You know it’s you
    You know it’s you
    You know it’s you

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    April 10, 2020 / No Comments

    Mmm
    Mmm

    I will see you off now down the back of the ridge
    There’s just something that I got to show you
    There is domer and there’s rot and the common case
    It ain’t nothin’ what you say is true

    With your long arms, try and just give some time
    Presently, it does include my dues
    Ain’t your standard premonitions, all this phallic repetition
    Boy, you tell yourself a tale or two

    Man like you
    Man, improve

    Well, I know that we set off for a common place
    And the lines have run too deep
    How much caring is there of some American love
    When there’s lovers sleeping in our streets?

    So Cerberus Ride! Bring those dead alive
    Like Pirate Jenny on the Black Freighter
    It’ll be a long day of fixing, make something else your mission
    Boy, why this shit so hard to cue?

    Man like you
    How you do?

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    April 7, 2020 / No Comments

    Go, ahead and tell me you got all you want
    Fiver says you’re wrong
    And I suppose you’ve come down to help me
    Move things along

    And we lapped it up and we’re wise enough to know
    How it goes to get me honey
    But we’re wise enough to know
    How it goes to get me honey
    ‘Cause we know this feeling all a little too well

    Listen, the distance between us, could’ve took a while
    Once we closed that difference, you turned up like a friend of mine
    Every once in a while, the little things make me smile
    As if one of our longshots paid off
    One of our longshots paid off

    So yeah, go, ahead and tell me something real
    Come on, how’d you feel?
    And I suppose you’ve come down to help me
    Answer to the riddle
    To the riddle

    Why we laughed it off and we’re wise enough, who knows?
    How it goes to get me honey
    But we’re wise enough to know
    How it goes to get me honey
    ‘Cause we know this feeling all a little too well

    Listen, the distance between us, could’ve took a while
    Once we closed that difference, you turned up like a friend of mine
    Every once in a while, the little things make me smile
    As if one of our longshots paid off
    One of our longshots paid off

    And it’s by the by
    If it makes those nights fine
    We were side by side again
    And now, we’re all careless and loved up
    You know exactly how it goes
    When you’re giving us all kind of reason
    Thought I had to go
    Follow the heart I believe in, ’cause one of us must know
    When you’re giving us all kind of reason
    Thought I had to go
    Follow the heart I believe in, ’cause in the past it’s done me good
    So good, so good, so good

    Listen, the distance between us, could’ve took a while
    Once we closed that difference, you turn up like a friend of mine
    Every once in a while, the little things make me smile
    As if one of our longshots paid off

    Listen, the distance between us, could’ve took a while
    Once we closed that difference, you turn up like a friend of mine
    Every once in a while, the little things make me smile
    As if one of our longshots paid off
    One of our longshots paid off
    One of our longshots paid off

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    April 3, 2020 / No Comments

    If you were falling, then I would catch you
    You need a light, I’d find a match
    ‘Cause I love the way you say good morning
    And you take me the way I am

    If you are chilly, here take my sweater
    Your head is aching, I’ll make it better
    ‘Cause I love the way you call me baby
    And you take me the way I am

    I’d buy you Rogaine
    When you start losing all your hair
    Sew on patches to all you tear

    ‘Cause I love you more than
    I could ever promise
    And you take me the way I am
    You take me the way I am
    You take me the way I am

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    March 31, 2020 / No Comments

    I feel light, even in my darkest hour,
    The weight of this truth, it calms me.
    To be light, grounded by a heavy heart,
    And by the deeds they have done.

    Then let the night show me the way,
    Will darkness complete me?
    Even invite shadow to stay,
    As I gift the Lake each silent ache
    That burns endlessly.

    Lovely Lake, well-spring of all living things,
    This paradise on earth, she calms me.
    Water of life, give me my eternal sleep;
    Oasis of blue, my grave.

    So let the night show me the way,
    Let darkness complete me;
    I now invite shadow to stay
    As I gift the stars my silent scars
    That burn endlessly.

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    I feel light.

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    March 27, 2020 / No Comments

    In an ordinary world filled with ordinary people…a little love can create something…extraordinary…

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    March 24, 2020 / No Comments

    “You don’t think I’m annoying?”

    “No, not at all.”

    “Really? Even when I say stupid things? And ask to see your willy?”

    “Even then.”

    I don’t even know what to say, so instead of saying anything, I step into him. “Thank you.”

    “You don’t need to thank me.”

    My chest almost aches, and I have this weird feeling in my stomach. It’s not a bad feeling, but it’s a strange one. One I don’t seem to know how to understand. I slide my arms around him and press myself to him so I can tuck my face against his neck.

    “I don’t know why this makes me feel so weird,” I mumble.

    “A good weird or a bad weird?” he asks as he slides his hand under my shirt and gently runs his fingers over my back.

    “A good weird. Stop! I can’t take any more of this! My body doesn’t know how to respond. I think it’s shutting down. I think I’m dying, Jackson. Is that what this feeling is?”

    He shakes his head as he chuckles. “You’re not dying.”

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    March 20, 2020 / No Comments

    “You remake the world a hundred times a day.

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    March 17, 2020 / No Comments

    Brian frowned, then cleared his throat. He slowly released Sway’s face then lifted his hands and signed. “I wasn’t sure I’d ever get here. To this place in my head. A place where it’s calm. It took a long time to get here. I don’t feel the same way I used to. I was sure I’d be alone forever, Sway, before I met you. So, thank you.” Brian’s hand movements were full of the emotions he was feeling. “Thank you for being a fighter. You heard me, well before I could speak… and you never ran from me. I’ve searched for you for so long. I’ve traveled the world ten times over and I’ve never met anyone as brave and special as you. I’ve hunted you for forty years, Sway. You are who I’ve really been searching for all this time.”

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    March 13, 2020 / No Comments

    Will you touch me, will you touch me
    When my body’s full of fear?
    Will you reach me, will you reach me
    When my body’s so cold?

    Nothing short of the softest word can reach me now.
    Nothing but the warmest heart can touch me now

    Will you hold me, will you hold me
    When my mind is full of fears?
    Will you kiss me, will you kiss me
    When my mind is so down?

    All my life the doors kept closing on me
    Nothing in the world can
    Open my heart but some kindness

    Will you touch me, will you touch me
    When I’m shaking in fear
    Will you reach me, will you reach me
    When I’m trembling with tears

    All my life the doors kept closing on me.
    And nothing in the world can open my heart
    But your kindness

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