Thank You For Listening

Newborn bird with wet wings and closed eyes pushed out of the nest and told to fly My heart is broken but you ask me why I can't stand up with my head held high

Crying into a stone shoulder wrapped in cold arms icy hands on my face is nothing warm anymore? screaming at a deaf world hoping they'll some how hear me Can no one see my bleeding lying on the floor can no one feel me falling falling to the ground can no one hear me yelling screaming out in terror frozen in place with vacant smiles do they not know or do they not care?

You lie to yourself you run from the truth you say you're flying when we all know you're falling I know you're hurting why do you hide the pain?

Cracking my world is cracking splitting straight down I look to you but you don't know you stand in shock I look to her she stands motionless fists clenched in anger I look at him he's on the ground crying Cracking this world is cracking and they all know didn't take the time to just look and see maybe this could've been stopped but it's cracking breaking apart my world is cracking

Don't die on me I still need you Don't cry cause of me I still love you No need to say bye to me I'm still here I will always be here Don't lie to me you know, I can handle the truth Don't shy from me I will go find you and I will never let you go

Maybe this is a nightmare and soon it'll be done cause in this painful dream they're together, and I'm alone I gaze upon him from afar see him smile watch him laugh I try vainly not to fall for him he's one more thing I'll never have This isn't the ending I wanted so much for my fairytale I tried so hard not to love him but at that, I failed

couldn't hide couldn't run couldn't dodge the bullkets from your gun only hid behind my wall you never showed me how to fight only how to fall wanted to scream wished I could crawl but all I knew is how to fall

I should've listened I regret I didn't, now cause all of my joys came back to hurt me somehow I should've looked now I can only wish I had maybe I could've seen how his world was so bad Maybe it wouldn't have mattered maybe nothing could be done but I wish I could've stopped him before he raised that gun

I watched her fall I watched her tumble from her throne All the efforts she had made erased in seconds I saw her shock her horror surprise as she fell from all glory She reached for me I looked on with disdain I could've saved her could've grasped that hand but I didn't I laughed and let her fall I smiled and turned away her scream filled the air mingled with my laughter I watched til she fell from sight I watched her fall I let her fall I made her fall I admit, I pushed her from that throne and when she was gone I took her place claimed all glory and I I shall never fall

I've forgotten who I wanted to be When I was little, I dreamed of me the person that I wanted to be confident and loud happy and proud How was I to know the truth as naive as I was in my youth

White Walls, sterile sheets. Clock is ticking, won't stop for me.

It burns me to the back of my soul. I just can't believe you're gone. You. Gone. Forever. I never really thought about forever before. I see now it's eternal loneliness. The world will move on, but I'll stay, forever, missing you. I'm sorry, I live you, I miss you.

The most important thing can be the hardest to say. I don't want to hurt you, but please go away. I'd rather be anywhere but in this place, lying next to you.

I wish I could replay the song, then maybe it could've been different. I swear, once I did love you. but sometimes things change and there's nothing you can do. I wish you the best, I didn't want it like this, but you aren't what I wanted.

Why would I have wings if I wasn't meant to fly away?

Silhouettes and shadows streaming through my mind. Believe me, I'm a liar: you'll never be my kind. A little stage, a puppeteer, a sung manipulator. Pulling strings a dancing hand, the patient waiting hater. She loves the games, the masquerade, the sly dance of pretend. But she must always keep her guard, she won't be played again.

It's ironic, that after she's gone, she's the one thing you can't let go. Instead, you put the rest of your life in her place, and cling to her memory as everything else dissolves.

Taste of your soul Smell of your skin Slowly breathe out I'll breathe you in Shocks through my spine You're touching my scars It feels so nice You're stroking my heart

I'll always love... I'll always... no. I can see it's time to let you go.

I pause the song and walk away I close the book and lose the page My part is done, I leave the stage I drop his hand, and run away

He won't get out of my mind, It's not that I haven't tried. I swear I hate him... yeah, right. I know I can't lie to you.

How could they know who you were, if they couldn't even see, your face? And when we agreed it was the last time, why couldn't you walk away?

I could let you hold me while I thought of him. I couldn't look at you, watching me all lonely. I couldn't listen to the laughter all around me when I couldn't smile. And when faking normalcy wouldn't appease me, I turned my music up louder, and walked away. I had to, you wouldn't understand.