it was the fourth of july
you and i were, you and i were fire, fire, fireworks
and i don’t want to go home right now.
Anonymous asked:
...It's not "the lights and boys are blinding?"
Another one bites the dust ejrhehr
Source: 1989 lyric booklet
for children
when I devoured your cupboards, heaped earth over your garden and forgot to tend it, when I stood on the step with only stones in my pockets
when I shut my eyes with contentment, you thought I was ignoring you, but I wasn't
when I ran to meet you, when I planned and executed the creekbed exploration, when I wrote you down
I know it fell so short of generosity, and left home no less hollow, in the end;
I did not understand how to improve myself, how to give you anything you needed.
I only knew to beat like a pulse, search in the crowd,
how to eagerly answer the unasked question and say
I am here, I am here, I am here.
new
the lonelieness, a bruise
a sunset shade I wouldn't choose
the repetition, intuition
votive-light petitions
(I really miss him.)
but happiness felt forward-leaning
meaning:
goodbye wasn't goodbye
and I, no longer only I
"To the beautiful boy whose heart I broke in December. To my first love who I never thought would be my first heartbreak. To my band. To a mean man I used to be afraid of. To someone who made my world very dark for a while. To a girl who stole something of mine. To someone I forgive for what he said in front of the whole world."
next book I finish reading will bring me halfway to my annual goal (50). and yes that includes the three I read in the last three days for no reason lol
“you don’t meet the people you love, you recognize them.” – life, only better, anna gavalda
i loved you before i was born, li-young lee / hair match, the mountain goats / i’m going back there someday, the muppets / call me maybe, carly rae jepsen / lavender, two door cinema club / prosthetic love, typhoon / dulzura, sandra cisneros / slow show, the national
