left and Right

left and Right or right and Right
Give it all up into the air.
For love is all that's left as the world burns.
Put out the fire with tears of sympathy
Burning their homes as we build up our own
Is that the way life's meant to be?
Can it be so that they are just jealous
That's what we say (rote recitation)
Cuz we have it all. We are the world.
We are the best.
We are the best.
How can it be when they hate us and our response is to kill them all?
Don't get me wrong, but what we've come in is societal rape.
Take it all and leave them behind.
Bodies broken, black and blue.
Blood stained on the sand.
because - oh yes...
I'm a little progressive, left and Right.
Here is my ego, here is my open-mind.
When they argue their side, I'll bullshit my way out
All I know is no one's Right.

A Memory
hugging my knees in the corner of my bed
after locking all three doors and killing the lights
(and the pain with the pills)
i left you to save you from me
then you locked me out when hope was born
and all was lost in my descent
i couldn't hear your tears through he door
could you hear me beg through your tears?
but it's not you i can't stand, the damage was his
he was the liar, i just thought you'd see through it
(or at least her) but too little too late.
And he fooled us all (at least me for a while)
But when he took to the stairs and called me a prick
I started to see the problem wasn't me.
It was him and his impossibilities
Because for once I wasn't an ass
And he wasn't all that he said
Cuz I knew he was a ghost in his pale white skin
And his suave facade designed to hide
The weaknesses that lie beneath.

An Epiphany
So much for who I thought I knew
I should have heard the sirens coming
I should've seen it in your face
and known it was a lie.
I guess some things are too much to ask for
and better left unsaid
But I never asked for a thing from you
I just believed the promises you made.
why should i have believed those words?
why didn't I know i'd feel this pain?
and either you forgot those words you swore
or you never meant them in the first place.
and over the static of the phoneline
you said you didn't but now i see you did
and all those words were just another lie.
And when you breathed "i miss you"
that was was your biggest one
cuz you couldn't wait to get me out of your life
and your lipstick laced deceit
and your face a painted lie
are as real as your shady heart
So if i'm strong i'll give it up
but i doubt that can ever be
perhaps you'll even come around
and see the things i hope you'd see
so they can say whatever they want to
cuz i know they know nothing of us
And they know even less about me.
What shocks me is they don't really know you
You can call me a bitch or say I'm full of shit.
No matter, no worries.
You're the one who can't be true.

The Ghost
The view from the overpass is laced with streaks of red and white;
All unaware of the ghost that sits on the edge floating above.
The one that had the hope, and the one who's full of spite.
The ghost without a soul because it couldn't love
And now it feels like now i can't have what I want,
but that's just cuz i'm wanting you
The sun won't shine over this highway tomb for all its pride
What sun that's set on tomorrow can rise again today?
The fire within the soul burnt so bright and strong that it died
It shone itself to ash and will never again fight the dark away