ManicMelody

I'll never repeat your mistakes See how much joy out of life I can take Whisper words of contented damnation Forgetting you never knew your station Doling out promises you never could keep Impairing your senses before you could weep Poisoning veins and blurring time The time you didn't know was mine Imprinting upon me the ways of life The ups and downs, the pain, the strife The fairness and justice that did not exist The substance that made you realize was this: Sweet tears that fell from eyes of mine Begging you to see past the wine Behind the years of addiction and scorn And the loving smile that you'd never worn It was hidd

The thought of self-harm and bad attitudes The self-guiding principle of distraught youth Brought before judgment; their inability to cope Decisive in actions and quick to lose hope Influenced by childhood, by stress and by you Finding cracks in the walls to just barely get through Gazing at old photos of happier times Happier songs with happier rhymes Wishing I'd never be like them too Focus on writing really written by you What went wrong was of sight and of mind A torture that only chemistry binds Teenage heartache would only do To tame the hearts that scream the truth She seeks out dreams in strangers of light Her apathetic