Surprise of youth

I'm reminded of where I come from everyday
your paths wrong, you can't find a better way
the woman walks by doesn't know where she is
but are you a devil if you dare to live?
against the wall asking if you care to give
when you go will anyone miss you
cause you get lost when the truth hits you
in a big city you know your way round
circles of hypracrites have been found
truth you hide stares you in the face
all you do is watch us walk through this place
crowded houses your mansions have space
you raided my ansestors and made them work
made money thinking you'd never hurt
you've got an angry youth who read the books
study history and see how the future looks.

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Don't Know Why

(Verse 1)
Remember when we used to laugh together?
It was like we laughed just to make it better
perhaps we knew too well what was about to come
we all know in the end that I had to run
but do you remember our little house of fun?
them times together I'll never forget
because to this day I'm glad we met
I wish I didn't have to take that plane
but I had to so I suppose its here I go again
feeling what I used to feel, feeling the same
these tears from my eyes represent my pain
another Mancunion walking through the rain
I keep telling demons, I won't play the game
I'm just waiting for you I'm waiting for the sun
but right now it feels like it will never come.

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R.I.P Declan

You are no longer on the Anson
you are in a brighter place that is far better
if you can hear me,
I want you to know, you may be gone
but you will be missed for ever.
And I have been trying to write this for days
but I can't find the right words
I have tried it so many different ways
In my mind I paint the picture of your smiling face
because in reality I know you have gone to a far better place.
We went to the same school.
I believe you are still here, that's why you will never be forgot.
I keep expecting to bump into you on my way to the corner shop.
I know I have to understand you are gone but know it is not the end
I know you are looking down
I love you friend.

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We got lucky tonight

I'm standing still on my drive
I hear the crowd marching on
the road with their heads held high
holding the most love I've ever saw
all as one with signs saying stop the war.

Mothers who have lost their sons
claimed as heroes they are dead
due to oil and the bulls eye guns
you run from
propaganda, goverments and queens
as I follow the marines.
But now I watch my mother cry
marching with her sign held high.

So where are you?
where ever you are?
if you are at work?
or sat in your car?
if you are at home?

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Cry for Me

Can I hold you?
I just wanna hold you.
I dont know why?
I wanna hold you.
I wanna be the one to make you cry.

The box of tissues remain on the table,
they have been awaiting your waterworks.
Your waterworks.
They have been awaiting your cheeks.
Yes I have the cheek.
They can come down mine if they run down yours
I dont know what I have
but whatever it is
it is the key to open the doors of your mind and your heart.
Can I hold you?

See.
I want you to hold more than your body against me.
My wrongs show you care.

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Two Word Lines

I write
my pain
and its
just another poem
its just
the same
all the heart ache that goes onto this page
only takes me back to the place where I await
behind the curtains of an empty stage
the pain
I write
I wrote this
I locked my own cage
I threw away the key to he that did see me rage
and still
I write
yes still
I fight
hoping that I might find something you feel
because these two word lines are just rhymes

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I sigh

I sit here and sigh, I dont know why
mayby it is a sigh of relief
my delight; delighted at the loss of grief
but agsighity still takes control...
grabbing hold of my sole.
I think well, but too far ahead
holding fear, to Mary I hail
giving myself no oppertunity to fail
yes, I should learn from mistakes
grow stronger and work harder
for you, I say an our father
what if my one chance flys into the mist
theres no secound, mistake it cant exsist
so watch me dance with the one chance
I do it time after time and im afraid
in case I am an extra in this parade
from day one I said it, I am no liar
its not to prove a point more to inspire
I continue to try as today is tonight
tomorow is new and thats why i sigh.

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I Now Know Why

(I now know why is the second verse of don't know why,
The change of name explains the importance of the sun in the sky)

cause now I'm just a lost soul in my own town
I keep walking to no where with my head down
you wanna hear me but I can't find a noun
my heart is so empty its like a house
remember what it used to be like
we'd had freinds every night
he sang a song and you played a tune
I was so lonley in a crowded room
celebrating departure
on this sunday theres no our father
for all his good he makes it harder
on his cloudy day he makes it darker
so I do what I do best and run
one bullet awaits through the eye of a gun
I find our little house of fun
I'm just waiting for the sun
cause when it rises I won't need you to come.

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Liar, Liar, bums on fire

We act like things changed for the best
history's wore itself out, we can rest
they cover up truth they think we forget
color of blood is the color of debt
sound of a gun is the sound of war
streets of blood from governments law
his tears are from what his mother saw
poluted propaganda, full of hugs
mr thug we'll sell you drugs
put you in a cell, everyone loves
to see handcuffs round guys from hoods
it rains round here so we put them up
fingers show we still have bows
you try to tie us up we shoot arrows
you take him away thats how it goes
we keep eating lies they feed us
its not right to say they don't need us
whatever we say they won't believe us
we keep on doing as we're told, we must
we are lied to by the leaders we trust.

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Blackness

We all sat round the table
we were dressed in black
eating sanwhiches
the cans in my fidge
they were my only six pack
its strange to see that people change
but its even stranger
to see that a heart can remain the same
Decemeber snow turned to manchester rain
and i know sunshine doesnt last
but the summer felt like it never came.

Asleep under the roof of a happy house
Ive been over shadowed
entered into a nightmare
I just wanna shout
I wanna blame god
but he already knows that this is one dark cloud
and when he does what he does he has a reason why
but I cant help but think

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