Unanswered Prayers

Just the other night at a hometown football game
My wife and I ran into my old high school flame
And as I introduced them the past came back to me
And I couldn't help but think of the way things used to be

She was the one that I'd wanted for all times
And each night I'd spend prayin' that God would make her mine
And if he'd only grant me this wish I wished back then
I'd never ask for anything again

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers
Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs
That just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

She wasn't quite the angel that I remembered in my dreams
And I could tell that time had changed me
In her eyes too it seemed
We tried to talk about the old days
There wasn't much we could recall
I guess the Lord knows what he's doin' after all

And as she walked away and I looked at my wife
And then and there I thanked the good Lord
For the gifts in my life

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers
Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs
That just because he may not answer doesn't mean he don't care
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

Some of God's greatest gifts are all too often unanswered...
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

Unanswered Prayers -- Garth Brooks

Baby Stop Crying

You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe,
But you're back where you belong.
Go get me my pistol, babe,
Honey, I can't tell right from wrong.

Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying.
You know, I know, the sun will always shine
So baby, please stop crying 'cause it's tearing up my mind.

Go down to the river, babe,
Honey, I will meet you there.
Go down to the river, babe,
Honey, I will pay your fare.

Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying.
You know, I know, the sun will always shine
So baby, please stop crying 'cause it's tearing up my mind.

If you're looking for assistance, babe,
Or if you just want some company
Or if you just want a friend you can talk to,
Honey, come and see about me.

Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying.
You know, I know, the sun will always shine
So baby, please stop crying 'cause it's tearing up my mind.

You been hurt so many times
And I know what you're thinking of.
Well, I don't have to be no doctor, babe,
To see that you're madly in love.

Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying.
You know, I know, the sun will always shine
So baby, please stop crying 'cause it's tearing up my mind.

Baby Stop Crying -- Bob Dylan

Betrayed Me

I watched you change and never knew
That you would be like all the rest
You were so true, too good to be true
I trusted you and fell apart again

I can not change the fact
That you're not coming back
So depressed I'm your slave

Betrayed me you're not the one
To be trusted with my love
Betrayed me you're not the one
Who should be trusted with my love

I had to leave so I could breath
I hate to fight that's not what I want
You were so true, too good to be true
I trusted you and fell apart again

Betrayed Me -- Adema

I Love You I'll Kill You

I see love, I can see passion
I feel danger, I feel obsession
Don't play games with the ones who love you
Cause I hear a voice who says:
I love you... I'll kill you...

Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room...
Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room...
Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room...
Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room...

Look into the mirror of your soul
Love and hate are one in all
Sacrifice turns to revenge and believe me
You'll see the face who'll say:
I love you... I'll kill you...
But I'll love you forever

Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room...
Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room...
Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room...
Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room...

I Love You I'll Kill You -- Enigma

I Can't Stop Crying

I saw black and you saw red
Crawled to separate corners
the line went dead I closed my heart up tore your love
for me to shreds

Tangled wires / love can't breathe
pulling tighter to my ruthless need
Don't look down I want you unconsolably

I can't stop crying

Stubborn distance closes in
with your assistance bitterly begin
To build a wall of silence cutting soul in two
Cloudy water in my eyes
I'm ashamed of words with secret knives
In dream I scream but you can't
Hear me calling you

I know that this heartache is
A speck in the sky of love
But it's all I feel around me

I Can't Stop Crying -- Sam Phillips

Falling

Sleep eludes me, and my mind is riveted. I am tired, yet awake, an in between swaying between both worlds, wanting to fall into one then longing for the other. You are gone. A wretched absence from my side, I am haunted in this state, I will succumb. Wanting to know, still begging for ignorance, for what if what is not known is my demise? I believe it is. Broken, that was the promise made, yet made to be broken, isnt that always the case? Flawed words, good intentions, all fail. Weakened am I, fragile my breath be still and no more. I push against the surmounting edge clinging to nothing, and I fall into darkness once more. For there at least I am safe, for it does not betray me nor my love, but beckons to me from the ashes that becomst me. Bury me quickly, that I might be swallowed up in beauty, blending into black that is my soul, joining with earth so that I might be renewed from the core. Can this not be my reality that it may pass me by, no for it is mine to taste and savor, bitter end yet sweet as honey in my mouth this is. Yet bitter remains, it always does, doesn't it. Overpowers the sweet, drowning out any joy still residing in me, lonely and cold. This will never be, will it? May you reject me, may you share what I taste, I think not anymore. For I am not to be played a fool, one to be tried and tested, to be used as a toy, an addition to your mistakes, chalked up to a simple statistic in your burnt pages of your past. To be forgotten as the others, and many others to come still, no this shall not be me. How is it I sway so easily to your voice, what have you done to me to cause such brokenness and vulnerability? I search for the key but you have hidden it away in my own heart no matter, in these waves of emotion for you beneath I seek to expire. But I am flooded, it runs in me and through me, returning to and from you, is there no end? My words pour as rain, my heart turns to dust, and I am left in solitude to piece together this shattered wind cast on me, it overtakes me. And I fall again, over and over, through the air and back up again, to plummet down through the night, vicious cycle why must you torment me? Is it I am too strong you wish to destroy, or too weak you want to be above me. perhaps both. Perhaps I am a fool. Perhaps the sun was never meant to rise for me, perhaps set in stone on my head I there lie, in the earth, to join its multitudes, and become one, if only to never fall once more. But then life would be too kind to me, even death too kind yes, so I am inbetween, betweenst your world and mine, invisible yet ever present with you, absent moreover, simultaneously. So I let go of the cliff, only this time of my own wish, I give in, and lay it all down, for the end, falling.

Copyright: poeticone2812009

Understanding (Wash It All Away)

"You hold the answers deep within your own mind.
Consciously, you've forgotten it.
That's the way the human mind works.
Whenever something is too unpleasant, to shameful for us
to entertain, we reject it.
We erase it from our memories.
But the imprint is always there."

(Can't wash it all away)
(Can't Wish it all away)
(Can't hope it all away)
(Can't cry it all away)

The pain that grips you
The fear that binds you
Releases life in me
In our mutual
Shame we hide our eyes
To blind them from the truth
That finds a way from who we are
Please don't be afraid
When the darkness fades away
The dawn will break the silence
Screaming in our hearts
My love for you still grows
This I do for you
Before I try to fight the truth my final time

"We're supposed to try and be real.
And I feel alone, and we're not together. And that is real."

Can't wash it all away
Can't wish it all away
Can't cry it all away
Can't scratch it all away

Lying beside you
Listening to you breathe
The life that flows inside of you
Burns inside of me
Hold and speak to me
Of love without a sound
Tell me you will live through this
And I will die for you
Cast me not away
Say you'll be with me
For I know I cannot
Bear it all alone

"You're not alone, honey."
"Never... Never."

Can't fight it all away
Can't hope it all away
Can't scream it all away
It just won't fade away, No

Can't wash it all away
Can't wish it all away
Can't cry it all away
Can't scratch it all away

(Can't fight it all away)
(Can't hope it all away)
Can't scream it all away
Ooh, it all away
Ooh, it all away

"But the imprint is always there. Nothing is ever really forgotten."
"God, please don't hate me"
"Because I'll die if you do."
"Because I'll die if you do."
"Because I'll die if you do."
"Because I'll die if you do."

Understanding (Wash It All Away) -- Evanescence

Wake Up Alone

It's okay in the day I'm staying busy
Tied up enough so I don't have to wonder where is he
Got so sick of crying
So just lately
When I catch myself I do a 180
I stay up clean the house
At least I'm not drinking
Run around just so I don't have to think about thinking
That silent sense of content
That everyone gets
Just disappears soon as the sun sets

This face in my dreams seizes my guts
He floods me with dread
Soaked in soul
He swims in my eyes by the bed
Pour myself over him
Moon spilling in
And I wake up alone

If I was my heart
I'd rather be restless
The second I stop the sleep catches up and I'm breathless
This ache in my chest
As my day is done now
The dark covers me and I cannot run now
My blood running cold
I stand before him
It's all I can do to assure him
When he comes to me
I drip for him tonight
Drowning in me we bathe under blue light

His face in my dreams seizes my guts
He floods me with dread
Soaked in soul
He swims in my eyes by the bed
Pour myself over him
Moon spilling in
And I wake up alone
And I wake up alone
And I wake up alone
And I wake up alone

Wake Up Alone -- Amy Winehouse

Vicious Betrayal

Your lies consume me, with every breath I'm burning
how I believed that the truth was in your eyes
my life now chaos and your tong it breeds deceit
wake from this nightmare I'll never love her again

my nights now filled with agony as your scent floats in the air
and salted rain that falls on my lips
I pray to God I'll not stumble again,
and I woke in chains these shackles tear my flesh
and blood that flows from these wounds flows back as night

now count deception I have no past she told me
her words ring within my ears and chill my spine
now as the rage builds I fear control is waning
I feel this shell that is restraint now crumble away

and salted rain now falls on my lips I pray to God I'll not stumble again

and I woke in chains and shackles tear my flesh
and blood that flows from these wounds flows back as night
your lies consume me with every breath I burn
and now the past that should be kept haunts me at night

chilled to the bone tong sears my flesh
and your lies breed Vicious Betrayal
stumble to the ground still she knows me best
and her lies breed Vicious Betrayal

Vicious Betrayal -- All That Remains

Is This Real?

Twisted this feeling walked out of shape
So tired of revealing the moves that I make

And I know, yes I know, but is this real?
And I know, yes I know, but is this real?

Feeling inconstant could drive me insane
Flesh to blood to bone to love
Twisted...

And I know, yes I know, but is this real?
And I know, yes I know, but is this real?

Is this real?

Twisted this feeling
Flesh, blood, bone, love
Twisted
Twisted this feeling

And I know, yes I know, but is this real?
And I know, yes I know, but is this real?

Flesh to blood to bone my love
Twisted
Twisted

Is this real?

Is This Real? -- Lisahall