and since we're on lyrics....

This is the first of hopefully many more songs written over the next week and this summer, as I rapidly approach study abroad. I won't be able to bring my guitar there so I really won't be able to do much writing (musically anyways...) unless I somehow magically get a guitar over there. But, as inspired by Dashboard Confessional, here is one of the songs I surely intend to record shortly after returning home:


there's no reason to act right now
because what have you done
but walk all over me
i'm sick of it pilin' up like it used to

there's no reason to stay right now
because what have you done
but color up my pride
oh yes you know that you do it's true

well to be fair to you and i promise you, i promise you i swear
that from this day forth i refuse, i refuse to be there

--instrumental ditty--

there's no reason to see this through
'cause i can see it now, that you don't care at all
my chest beaten down again
and though you say one thing
you mean the other call

i thought i promised you from the first day
that i would just be real
and i thought you told me from the first day
that it was all surreal
well look where that got us now, with the distance growing
and the chemistry that's slowing
breath taken out from my lips
that you just left with that last haunting kiss

i cannot see, where you were going with this
leaving me hanging
i cannot see, why you had left me standing
shiv'ring in the cold
i am alive
but i am barely breathing
but the warmth it's now returning
i am alive
and now i'm moving on, and i've left you in the past

well to be fair to you and i promise you, i promise you i swear
that from day forth i refuse, i refuse, to be there