her

(guitar, vocals, and lyrics by me)

The lyrics:

She wore lipstick
inside of her mouth,
painted tie dye
in the blood of her veins.
She always loved
kissing the rain.

A master in the art
of pyromania,
she lit candles in the walls
of your heart.
Strike the match and watch
as she tears you apart.

She wanted to be the kind of art
who you never forget,
wanted to be the person
who scars your mind.
Doesn't want to admit
that she's simple,
doesn't want to admit
that she's falling behind.

Secretly she loves
everyone
and it scares her
that she's forgotten to hate
but for now she'll just draw
pictures of love
and laugh
and wait.

She wore lipstick
inside of her mouth
a master in the art
of pyromania,
she wanted to be art,
secretly she loves
everyone...

I can tell that
sometimes when you
look at
me,
you see
her
in my
eyes.

(It scares me.)
Because,
you still don't
realize that
the two of us are

separate

beings.

The same color
hair
does not mean
we have the same color
minds.

So badly I
just wanted to
rush over to the
girl-with-her-hands-
as-shields.

I wanted to
wrap her in
arms and
so badly just
tell her that
everything is
fine, but

I lie too much
already,
and I was afraid
that she was
separated from me
by experience;

her stories of
life
built an invisible wall
around her.
I'm too afraid
to break it.

So badly I wanted
to hug her,
touch her,
try to comfort
her;
stop the
pain because
it was leaking like
acid into
my eyes, and

the stinging just
made my mind
want to
cry.

In Spanish class,
we get graded
on our class participation,
on how much we
"actively use
our Spanish
vocabulary."

Sometimes when you and me
are talking,
I feel as if
you're grading me
on how much I
(don't) say, and

I'm pretty sure
that I'm
failing.

It's hard, though,
when I know so little
of your language,

and you know
so little
of mine.

Her lips glowed with
an emotion that
dripped
deep into my
eyes and
twisted into my
breath until I
could feel her heart
thumping slowly inside
of my
lungs.

I realize that
I know
nothing
about her, so

why can't I
get that
smile

out of my
mind?