By-Brontide

Please Come Back To Me (I Love You, Goodbye) It's all that you said Before you left I never wanted it to happen Please come back Come back to me I had to let go I had to brush those tears away And as I raised my hand and said "I love you, goodbye." My heart was screaming "Come back to me!" There you left me Standing in the street My heavy heart Lying on the ground beside me The rain was falling from my eyes As you disappeared from my sight Come back to me The cracks in the road pressed into my bare feet As I ran after you Come back to me Come back to me But you were already gone

God's Gift Broken and bleeding She's lying there on the floor He raises his fist To knock her around some more She begs him to stop Screaming her love out to him But he doesn't hear her; everything has gone dim Their bodies collide In a frenzied mess on the floor He's yelling at her; his voice sending her in a swirl But he doesn't know She's already left this world Her soul is free; nothing is left to linger "My child you've been Through hell on my Earth I'm sorry I wasn't there This is all I can do for you, leave your shoulders bare." And with that Wings spread from her back There is nothing left to lack Broken and bleed

Don't You See? There's a girl A young woman who hides her face in shame While the others around her all point and laugh She is covering herself in pain All she ever wanted was just to fit in All she ever needed was the hand of a friend But while the others around her all laugh She is pulling the knife from her back Take a look Look at the girl Don't you see? That she is just like you She can laugh and cry Run and jump and play Just like you There's a girl A young woman who struggles to keep her head held high Just a girl who has always wanted a friend But while she sits and hides away Eating alone with her books and things

The Emperor's Farewell The traveler drifts in a boat at night His spirit dancing over the wings of the earth June breeze sweeps leaves over his aching soul As the sky swallows his children Their firefly graves spread through the field His heart knotting when his body reaches the gate The color of the rain runs down the face of the emperor Coins placed gently over his eyes leaves his soul blind And a peaceful eternal smile rests on his happy face His arms cross over his chest The traveler drifts in a boat at night As his spirit dances over the wings of the earth

"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!?" "Its your own god damn fault!" The voices never seemed to stop. They seemed to go on forever, one after another, mixing together and overlapping until it was a continuous blare. Like an unorganized orchestra consisting of instruments that weren't tuned. The song they played was similar to the baying of coyotes, and yet... it was like there was no end to it either. With the door shut, and the lights off, even with headphones on, Tori could still hear it. She could still hear the awful screeches that came from her mother and father. They weren't quieting. Soft moonlight flooded in through her bedroom window, f