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    May 10, 2019 / No Comments

    We can fight our desires, ooh
    But when we start making fires
    We get ever so hot, ooh
    Whether we like it or not
    They say we can love who we trust, ooh
    But what is love without lust?
    Two hearts with accurate devotions, ooh
    What are feelings without emotions?

    I’m going in for the kill
    I’m doing it for a thrill
    Oh, I’m hoping you’ll understand
    And not let go of my hand
    I’m going in for the kill
    I’m doing it for a thrill
    Oh, I’m hoping you’ll understand
    And not let go of my hand

    I hang my hopes out on the line, ooh
    Well, they’d be ready for you in time
    If you leave them out too long, ooh
    They’ll be withered by the sun
    Full stops and exclamation marks, ooh
    My words stumble before I start
    How far can you send emotions? Ooh
    Can this bridge cross the ocean?

    I’m going in for the kill
    I’m doing it for a thrill
    Oh, I’m hoping you’ll understand
    And not let go of my hand
    I’m going in for the kill
    I’m doing it for a thrill
    Oh, I’m hoping you’ll understand
    And not let go of my hand

    Let’s go to war to make peace
    Let’s be cold to create heat
    I hope in darkness we can see
    And you’re not blinded by the light from me

    Ooh I’m going in for the kill
    I’m doing it for a thrill
    Oh, I’m hoping you’ll understand
    And not let go of my hand

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    May 3, 2019 / No Comments

    Bet he feels like an elephant
    Shaking his big grey trunk for the hell of it
    You know that you’re dreaming about being loved by him
    Too bad your chances are slim

    And it’s not like Mr. Shock
    To get shy when I ask who always is on top?
    There must be something deep down in the middle down there
    He’s not too easily scared

    He’s got friends but they got the feeling
    Wouldn’t care too much if he just disappeared
    Oh, look, see there he is now coming down the stairs
    (Here he comes)

    He pulled the mirrors off his Cadillac (yeah)
    ‘Cause he doesn’t like it looking like he looks back
    He talks like his opinion is a simple fact
    Somebody grabbed his collar
    He cried the whole way home
    He won’t remember a thing ’til it starts again
    That’s how it is ’til the end (yeah)

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    April 27, 2019 / No Comments

    Am I
    Am I still tough enough?
    Feels like i’m wearing down, down, down, down, down
    Is my visciousness
    Losing ground, ground, ground, ground ground?
    Am I taking too much
    Did I cross a line, line, line?
    I need my role in this
    Very clearly defined

    I need your discipline
    I need your help
    I need your discipline
    You know once I start I cannot help myself

    And now it’s starting up
    Feels like i’m losing touch
    Nothing matters to me
    Nothing matters as much

    I see you left a mark
    Up and down my skin
    I don’t know where I end
    And where you begin

    I need your discipline
    I need your help
    I need your discipline
    You know once I start I cannot help myself

    I. Can. Not. Stop. Myself.
    Once I start I cannot stop myself
    And you.
    Once I start I cannot stop myself
    And you know.
    Once I start I cannot stop myself
    And you.
    Once I start I cannot stop myself
    And you know.
    Once I start I cannot stop myself

    I need your discipline
    (And you)
    I need your help
    (Once I start I cannot stop myself)
    I need your discipline
    (And you know)
    Because once I start I cannot stop myself
    I need your discipline
    (And you)
    I need your help
    (Once I start I cannot stop myself)
    I need your discipline
    (And you know)
    Because once I start I cannot stop myself

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    April 26, 2019 / No Comments

    Somethin’ filled up
    my heart with nothin’.
    Someone told me not to cry.

    But now that I’m older,
    my heart’s colder,
    and I can see that it’s a lie.

    Children, wake up.
    Hold your mistake up
    before they turn the summer into dust.

    If the children don’t grow up,
    our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.
    We’re just a million little gods causin’ rain storms,
    turnin’ every good thing to rust.

    I guess we’ll just have to adjust.

    With my lightnin’ bolts a glowin’,
    I can see where I am goin’ to be
    when the reaper he reaches and touches my hand.

    With my lightnin’ bolts a glowin’,
    I can see where I am goin’.
    With my lightnin’ bolts a glowin’,
    I can see where I am go — goin’!

    You better look out below!

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    April 20, 2019 / No Comments

    “I know you feel a bit down right now, but it’ll pass. Hey. You wanna break into my house and replace some of those hidden cameras you like so much? Would that cheer you up?”

    Remy chuckled despite himself. “I may have done that already,” he whispered, smiling against Luke’s tee shirt when he heard him laugh too.

    “That’s my boy,” Luke whispered back and kissed his temple.

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    April 18, 2019 / No Comments

    My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy trapped in a girl’s body?

    The knowledge of a third option slept like a seed under the soil.

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    April 17, 2019 / No Comments

    No one would come, because he’d foolishly decided to ‘shake things up a bit’ and take a wrong turn home.”

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    April 11, 2019 / No Comments

    See black, see bloom
    Died on an impulse over you
    Caught like a corpse 
    Crawling round a dream and loving you
    And she hangs on youth
    Crushing any feet to fit the shoes
    Stepping it out with a size 12 mouth 
    And cursing you

    Small town witch come to mess me up
    Small town witch come to mess me up
    Small town witch come to mess me up again

    She whored and she graced
    Bitching with the bottle, saving face
    Blowing it out as the jury’s doubt is laid to waste
    See black, see bloom 
    Choked up on a heartburn, bleeding through
    How does it feel when the ones that feed are biting you

    Small town witch come to mess me up
    Small town witch come to mess me up
    Small town witch come to mess me up again

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    April 10, 2019 / No Comments

    we are not alone
    and we are more alone
    than we’ve ever been
    so hurry up and lose me
    hurry up and find me
    again

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    April 8, 2019 / No Comments

    The Question wasn’t who wanted the victim dead, so much as who of those many people want it most..

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