Category: Autobiographical
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Topics That Trigger Me
If you wanna know, I’ll tell you the topics that trigger me So you can hold your tongue When you’re hellbent & angry So you won’t use them as weapons You’ll know better and refrain From devastating me with them From causing me unfixable pain All because I trusted you completely With topics that trigger […]
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Where is Redbird Country?
I came across an interesting fact when I typed in a Google search for “redbird” years ago. It wasn’t just that one fact that a Redbird is the same as a Northern Cardinal. It’s also a “Summer tanager,” which is not as well known, but it is a medium-sized songbird that was described by a […]
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She’ll Come To You
You wonder when she’ll show her face You walk all the sidewalks in this town Drive to see someone you liked online But afterwards you get a little down Is it because you’ve been so lonely You think you needs to happen soon Planning out your perfect first date By the water, under the fullest […]
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Obsessed With Kelly
I’m obsessed with Kelly I can’t get her out of my head I’m obsessed with Kelly She’s probably home in her bed Cause she’s not at this dance I may not have any chance But I’m obsessed with Kelly And all those things she said Like She never wanted me She never needed me I […]
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The Movie We Made
It’s the movie we made Without filming it to be shown It was just for ourselves It was for us alone It’s the movie we made It oftentimes in my mind It’s a past I can’t shake Or even get behind It’s the people I left It’s the ones who left me It’s the regrets […]
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The Ocean Is No Better Than The Lake
My parents settled in a college town by the sea First came oldest, than the middle one, then me We’d go to the beach and watch the waves break But the ocean is no better than the lake I loved that boardwalk town, it’s my childhood Then we grew up as we three knew we […]
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Meet-Cute
I used to be ungrateful I wasn’t happy, I would yell I expected others to see Through the lies they’d tell Then your eyes met mine And straight away I knew For the rest of my years Right then was our meet-cute Right then Was our meet-cute You saw me for who I was Underneath […]
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Free of Me
I’ll never forget it What she said that day It was cold and cloudy I was on my way To her studio apartment Like we planned She sounded different I didn’t understand It was pouring down buckets On Highway seventeen Said “Don’t bother coming” She didn’t want to meet She said You’re free to be […]
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Just Your Turn
You got to know my Mom and DadThen they brought him back into viewHe had come home from the serviceAnd he remembered kissing youBack at a house party in the 80’sIt was a night he never forgotI remember he came home that nightAnd said you were totally hotBut now you’re both olderSo much older than […]