The dawn beaks and another dream ascends, I am here on this fifth story window wishing to God you were here. My view is tainted, the happiness dissolves, and my winter lingers. Please help me fight these demons, the scars beneath the skin, the everlasting. I can’t sleep anymore, no matter how tired I am, how inspired.

So give me a reason then, these are not enough. I am blurred by the images I see in mirrors, they’re asking questions I cannot answer. I cannot find. And please help me stop trying, so desperately needing, so internally bleeding. I want to start here, to tremble in the wake of days new, to find something beautiful.

The surface it shimmers under the light, a glass house for the hollow, burdened by the darkest silhouette.

I want to torch myself. Set myself on fire.
I just want to smile with you again.

I fell asleep on paper wings / These people have no feelings– their heads are the only things that ever teach them anything about love / And I’m not sad, I just want to trust someone so badly / I just want something beautiful to happen here right now.

The Gloria Record – “Torch Yourself” (from Grace, The Snow Is Here)

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Posted on October 26th, 2008 by Elliott Grey
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