can we have our second chance
when there was never a first
i can be so much better
i hate to see you with worse

i remember the things that you said
the way that you’re feeling with me
all your secrets you shared
but you’re still my mystery

i traded my days just to kiss you
sold my hours to touch you
i didn’t say it enough
in our silence i missed you
don’t be silent i miss you

   let’s say the words so we can meet again
   say the words until forever then
   say our words so we don’t have to speak
   say it once so i can breathe

now the memory of you
is a crushing weight on my chest
I should have said so before
Dreams left alone won’t manifest

   let’s say the words so we can meet again
   say the words until forever then
   say our words so we don’t have to speak
   say it once so i can breathe

and i wish that i was stronger then
so i make myself stronger now
lifting weights not frustrations
still hear the call of your temptation
crush my shame with these weights
until your pain is lost in translation

   let’s say the words so we can meet again
   say the words until forever then
   say our words so we don’t have to speak
   say it once so i can breathe

i work ’til i’m dripping with sweat
blood tears and regret
I will say something more
Not giving up yet
my heart writes you these words
a sacrifice rhyme
from a promise unspoken

   i’ll say it once if you’ll breathe.



    – JT
12:18am, Wednesday Jan 6 2016