twenty7pulses

you do all the wrong things
at all the right times
your reckless nature
was blocking the signs

and well you’re a rebel
don’t know no guidelines
on the battlefield
and i’m the landmine

dont push
dont run
dont hide
just fall
compared to this world
we’re both so small
please just give in, say yes
i promise you won’t regret
cuz i think it should be like this afterall

waste away nights
on cheap beer and weed
and whatever we could find
on basic cable tv

we had no heat
damn, that house was so cold
but can’t you see it unravel?
can’t you see our story unfold?

dont shy
dont leave
dont fight
just fall
compared to this world
we’re both so small
please just give in, say yes
i promise you won’t regret
cuz i think it should be like this afterall

we slept in sheets made
from our silhouettes
yeah, that’s one night
i’ll never regret

and as you fell fast asleep
your arm wrapped tight around me
i couldn’t help think
this is how it always should be

faster then a ray of light
moves quicker than the speed of sound
travels alongside speeding bullets
with enough impact to shake the ground

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we’re the weekend warriors
we burn the midnight oil
and the solstice will continue
until we make impressions in the soil

i wanna live with my toes in the sand
the sea by my side
the sun as my muse
the stars as my guide

and if it so should happen
a storm there will be
i’ll close my eyes
and clench my teeth
hold my breath
go underneath
until the waves
wash over me

Just like the post-plucked petals of a dozen white roses
she is forgotten in a moment
only to be left strewn across the concrete & tar
to be stepped upon, driven over, blown aside
once coveted
now wilted
she becomes apart of the pavement itself
and loses all that once made her

a rose

We live in the most affluent culture the world has ever seen. Estimates are that although we only have 6% of the world’s population in America, we use almost half of the natural resources. It seems to me that if more were actually better, we would live in the happiest most satisfied culture of all time. But we don’t. Not even close. In fact, we live in one of the most dissatisfied cultures on record. It’s not that having alot of things is bad, wrong, or harmful in and of itself. Only that the desire to have more and more and more is insatiable. As long as you think more is better, you’ll never be satisfied. As soon as we get something, or acheive something, most of us go onto the next thing-immediately. This squelches our appreciation for life and our many blessings…An excellent measure of happiness is the differential between what you have and what you want. You can spend your lifetime wanting more, always chasing happiness-or you can simply decide to consciously want less. This latter strategy is infinately easier and more fufilling…