Frankie Renae

I'm wide awake and so alive
Ringing like a bell
Tell me this is paradise
And not someplace I fell
...

blaring soft spoken acoustic
one bit of uncalled honesty after another
and I imagine you
in all the overused words I use
...

Chorus:
You are 13 of 14 angels
got all them angles carried up
if the last one is me
...

there's a million angels that live in this town
so how did I find you; my feet can't touch the ground
I'm swimmin in your love
like all your emotions that fall from above
...

somewhere over the expanse of years
lies a time I just can't seem to fear
so many hopes, so many dreams
so many promises, so few tears at the seams
...

I dropped her heart on the sidewalk
walked around the block to pick it up
but it was gone
and when I looked again
...

Just your wife
It wasn't supposed to go this way
Close my eyes
But this won't go away
...

He lays on the phone, okay
with the silence
walks next to me, okay
with conversation's absence
...

And yet there you stand
180 days later
200 thoughts greater
So much more than friends
...

i called you the sea, we have tried and failed that many times
but sometimes in my prayers, guilt and scared, this love makes sense and i can't stop
the thinking and the thinking lines:
...

I saw you running twice that day
After you told me you died the first time
Fell apart when he said maybe you were
going over again
...

lightning shines
when the trees of karma crack
and there are roots
I'm sure you watch the stars
...

We became American

You came here in your refuge
You sat Indian style
...

Maybe we were laying on the couch
But I swear we were dancing
In the middle of the livingroom
In your beautiful clothing
...

I know it's not close to perfect
There are right words we don't share
The end of the day, I don't forget you are there
And I see
...

It feels so good to want nothing more than to sit and write of you
Writing and I've been strangers for so long
And for everything I am, you are so wrong
All that, and in spite of you, you're the one walking on my mind
...

So, this is how it goes
You forced me to find in you
Another boy that I can't tell the truth
About how I feel or what is real
...

please bring back the time to me
quit takin' it all away
there's so many things I need
words I missed the chance to say
...

Supposed to be doin' somethin' else
But we got yourself on my mind again
I been stayin' up past 3 am
And though it's not all because of you
...

Through fallen leaves of glory on a fog-drenched path
She stands above them with everything she has
Living before the smolder of her own ashes
And desperately trying to be the one who surpasses
...