This is no virtue It’s more like a sin Clinging onto hope like you did with claw marks in my skin Maybe this will gobble me up like I always said it would Now I don’t know what I deserve, only what I had to earn what I licked off knives that cut up my […]
Author: adarockdale
I write songs and short stories
Limb, Amputated
This is still a work-in-progress, but I am relatively happy with it at this point.
Honey
Honey is thicker than bloodYou can tell yourself all you wantThat’s why you draw fliesYou’re a corpse in the sun Honey is thicker than her tearsfill your glass againToo drunk to talktalk too much to listen You can always drown in low tideLying on your backThe pills make it easydeath just seems so freeingyou sink […]
Music
I put the music you should face on a record and I buried it deep in the dirt from it grew a hand that kept me tethered to this earth I let your voice become a vine that overtook my garden tangled in the thorns of roses their petals used to kiss your cheeks I […]
Habits
My breath is itchy like my throat is scabbed over nothing’s coming for me they say over and under like if they lie nothing bad ever happens leave me here I’m better off in my habits I’m better when my words scratch it the itch that makes me so mad it hurts bugs under my […]
Blood
I want to throw my body against these rocks My own legs will drag me up I’ll jump but then I think of who will find me My blood will slick the soles of their rain boots My blood will stick to their dark clothes Slippery, don’t fall You’ve got people back home I will […]
Flashlight
You don’t walk like you own this place You don’t walk like you’re anybody sit on somebody else’s grave and think about how you’re dying on your feet You carry a flashlight through this house You hold it up to my face Make sure nothing’s changed again To you I’ve not aged a day You […]
Checkmate
This must be a jokeYou must really think you’re cleverI’m caught in a contradiction(Checkmate)I must admit you’re betterExcept you’re not Just a friendly reminderyou’d always rather drown when you’re on fireThat never made anyone a liarNo one at all This ain’t a game to meThis is a conversationWhen you think you can get me(Checkmate)Is the […]
You
I sit and listento the salt water dripfrom the cracks in the roofand offthe cheeks of the scaredif only you would’ve cared my stomach grumbleswhile my mouth screamsa battle cry for this fightand Iam scared of my own faceif only you would’ve stayed love is a hookburied deep in my cheekand I’ve been dragged to […]
Atlas
You shook your head It rattled my foundations like I was built on top of you An island with a view But you’re so alone scared of dying and of phone calls How’d you get so small? My teardrop, your rainfall It’s not how it used to be you breathing fire while I’m away me […]
Song Lyrics and Short Stories 