Submissions by CaityCat (Peaches O-Brien)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I'm a lyricist, I write simply what I feel.
SONG LYRICS
Published
6th Jun 2013 4:57am
6th Jun 2013 4:57am
Alright
Keep your head up
Stay positive
cause how you think
is how you live.
I'm no expert
I tend to lose.
but I get up
dust off my shoes
say, "I'm alright
I always am"
who needs a boy
to hold my hand?
I dance alone
and it's alright
I look all sweet
but I can fight
love is like a
spinning top
go round and round
until it stops
then all that's left
is a last drop
but no worries
pick yourself up ...
Stay positive
cause how you think
is how you live.
I'm no expert
I tend to lose.
but I get up
dust off my shoes
say, "I'm alright
I always am"
who needs a boy
to hold my hand?
I dance alone
and it's alright
I look all sweet
but I can fight
love is like a
spinning top
go round and round
until it stops
then all that's left
is a last drop
but no worries
pick yourself up ...
746 reads
1 Comment
SONG LYRICS
Published
25th May 2013 6:21am
25th May 2013 6:21am
Check, please.
When you fall in love and everything works
nobody leaves and nobody gets hurt
I think it must be too much to ask
to love and to be loved back
he came and went so fast my head spun
stayed long enough to leave me undone
how come all the so called 'nice guys'
always take off at a run?
I'm not overreacting, I'm just asking
if someone could explain please
how this all went so wretchedly
I mean do you even miss me?
Check please, I've grown tired of your service
and I don't think that I deserve this
to be so sad just because you're...
nobody leaves and nobody gets hurt
I think it must be too much to ask
to love and to be loved back
he came and went so fast my head spun
stayed long enough to leave me undone
how come all the so called 'nice guys'
always take off at a run?
I'm not overreacting, I'm just asking
if someone could explain please
how this all went so wretchedly
I mean do you even miss me?
Check please, I've grown tired of your service
and I don't think that I deserve this
to be so sad just because you're...
793 reads
1 Comment
SONG LYRICS
Published
23rd May 2013 1:47am
23rd May 2013 1:47am
Castles
I didn't dream about castles
I dreamed about you
I didn't wake up crying
it took a few minutes to
I got myself out of bed
ran a brush through my hair
tried not to think of how
you told me you cared
you looked way too good
standing under streetlight
telling me that something
just didn't feel right
that you really liked me
you don't know what you want
so stick me in limbo
and act nonchalant
say you don't want to hurt me
but then watch me cry
pull the rug from my feet
and see my legs fly
what do you do
when...
I dreamed about you
I didn't wake up crying
it took a few minutes to
I got myself out of bed
ran a brush through my hair
tried not to think of how
you told me you cared
you looked way too good
standing under streetlight
telling me that something
just didn't feel right
that you really liked me
you don't know what you want
so stick me in limbo
and act nonchalant
say you don't want to hurt me
but then watch me cry
pull the rug from my feet
and see my legs fly
what do you do
when...
990 reads
3 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
9th Apr 2013 1:45am
9th Apr 2013 1:45am
Letter To My Friends...(Problem Seeds)
So she is sinking down slowly
feels like the walls are all closing
trying to self medicate
over the parts that she hates
her birthday just passed by
she didn't want to celebrate
I can never say what I think
she turned me into her shrink
for the past two or so years
it's been my listening ears
and a whole lot of bitching
and mistakes being made
I got a fridge full of lemons
but she doesn't like lemonade
I could try to pick her up
but I think, I think she's stuck.
This is a letter to all of my friends
who...
feels like the walls are all closing
trying to self medicate
over the parts that she hates
her birthday just passed by
she didn't want to celebrate
I can never say what I think
she turned me into her shrink
for the past two or so years
it's been my listening ears
and a whole lot of bitching
and mistakes being made
I got a fridge full of lemons
but she doesn't like lemonade
I could try to pick her up
but I think, I think she's stuck.
This is a letter to all of my friends
who...
792 reads
1 Comment
SONG LYRICS
Published
3rd Apr 2013 2:56am
3rd Apr 2013 2:56am
The Color
Well black and white suits her
like color never would
and she lets it love her
oh, like you never could
but you dream about her
her hair all in your face
her body draped over yours
she looks like home in your place.
so you call her on Tuesday
she's in your bed by Friday
with those 'I love you' eyes
and lips that give nothing away.
what you don't know won't hurt you
she keeps it under the covers
so you don't have to wonder
no so you don't have to love her.
she keeps away from the color. ...
like color never would
and she lets it love her
oh, like you never could
but you dream about her
her hair all in your face
her body draped over yours
she looks like home in your place.
so you call her on Tuesday
she's in your bed by Friday
with those 'I love you' eyes
and lips that give nothing away.
what you don't know won't hurt you
she keeps it under the covers
so you don't have to wonder
no so you don't have to love her.
she keeps away from the color. ...
872 reads
4 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
29th Mar 2013 00:00am
29th Mar 2013 00:00am
Runner
I got a little older,
I lost a little weight
I talked for years of running
but never left the state.
I thought by now I'd know
where I wanted to go
have a bunch of pictures
that I could someday show
to anyone who wanted to see
all the good I made of me
it's a bit tragic
to end up stationary
give a runner
a big enough hill
and they just might
stand still
x2
It's dark inside my head
no dreams playing tonight
I gave up on all those
couldn't take the fight.
It's the same way in how
nobody sees the...
I lost a little weight
I talked for years of running
but never left the state.
I thought by now I'd know
where I wanted to go
have a bunch of pictures
that I could someday show
to anyone who wanted to see
all the good I made of me
it's a bit tragic
to end up stationary
give a runner
a big enough hill
and they just might
stand still
x2
It's dark inside my head
no dreams playing tonight
I gave up on all those
couldn't take the fight.
It's the same way in how
nobody sees the...
787 reads
1 Comment
SONG LYRICS
Published
25th Mar 2013 3:03am
25th Mar 2013 3:03am
Peach
I'm a little bit handled,
and a bit overused.
I'm a peach, still I know
I'm just saying I'm bruised.
The outside is damaged
but under it, I'm still new
the heart of the matter
is what I'm trying to
get across with these words
have them make sense to you.
I can be sweet
when I want too.
and baby I
really want you
open your mouth
put me inside
see how it tastes
to kiss a girl ripe.
I was thrown in a basket
with some other peaches...
and a bit overused.
I'm a peach, still I know
I'm just saying I'm bruised.
The outside is damaged
but under it, I'm still new
the heart of the matter
is what I'm trying to
get across with these words
have them make sense to you.
I can be sweet
when I want too.
and baby I
really want you
open your mouth
put me inside
see how it tastes
to kiss a girl ripe.
I was thrown in a basket
with some other peaches...
902 reads
1 Comment
SONG LYRICS
Published
17th Mar 2013 3:04am
17th Mar 2013 3:04am
Love on the Run
A pretty girl in transition,
it's on her face, she is wishing
that she had a fucking clue.
Mud on her shoes, her hair in knots
smoke in the air, she smells like pot
you just can't tell her what to do
but you're lucky cause she wants you.
she's got you hooked, like the late news
your hearts been broken into
she said, "take me with you if you're leaving
I'm always looking for some place to go.
You look like you might be a good thing
but if I stay here, well, I'll never know"
it's always the way with girls like this...
it's on her face, she is wishing
that she had a fucking clue.
Mud on her shoes, her hair in knots
smoke in the air, she smells like pot
you just can't tell her what to do
but you're lucky cause she wants you.
she's got you hooked, like the late news
your hearts been broken into
she said, "take me with you if you're leaving
I'm always looking for some place to go.
You look like you might be a good thing
but if I stay here, well, I'll never know"
it's always the way with girls like this...
794 reads
2 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
10th Jan 2013 9:28pm
10th Jan 2013 9:28pm
Exceptions and Rules
I used to think you were troubled
but under it, misunderstood.
I'm starting to think I was wrong
and that maybe you're just no good.
Yell at me again, I dare you,
and I will walk out the door.
Yell at me with no good reason
I'll show you what yelling is for.
If you could just take a breath
maybe think your words through
be more careful with me
the way that I am with you.
I won't do this dance,
I won't cast this lot.
I won't be the girl
who gets so lost
in all her reasons
for staying around
she loves him so...
but under it, misunderstood.
I'm starting to think I was wrong
and that maybe you're just no good.
Yell at me again, I dare you,
and I will walk out the door.
Yell at me with no good reason
I'll show you what yelling is for.
If you could just take a breath
maybe think your words through
be more careful with me
the way that I am with you.
I won't do this dance,
I won't cast this lot.
I won't be the girl
who gets so lost
in all her reasons
for staying around
she loves him so...
659 reads
2 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
9th Jan 2013 3:46am
9th Jan 2013 3:46am
Picture
I hear they say a picture is worth a thousand words
so I ask you why you still have a picture of her?
do you still wonder why it was she didn't stay?
and dream she had the nerve to love you anyway?
I know she ran and left you with your ear to the door
don't forget I picked up your pieces off the floor
and made you breakfast in bed when you were sad
I played humpty and dumpty put you together again
so how come when today I opened that drawer
I found the picture of the girl you adored
when now a days it was me you swore
it's a dirty cold lesson...
so I ask you why you still have a picture of her?
do you still wonder why it was she didn't stay?
and dream she had the nerve to love you anyway?
I know she ran and left you with your ear to the door
don't forget I picked up your pieces off the floor
and made you breakfast in bed when you were sad
I played humpty and dumpty put you together again
so how come when today I opened that drawer
I found the picture of the girl you adored
when now a days it was me you swore
it's a dirty cold lesson...
952 reads
2 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
8th Jan 2013 9:45pm
8th Jan 2013 9:45pm
Maybe
I'm a little bit older
than I was last year
a little bit wiser
with a little less cheer.
it's all give and take
but what'd I give away?
and am I okay
with what I have to take?
another January first,
a new year with old problems
don't they always seem to catch you
right when you think you lost them?
Maybe next time
I'll be more certain,
won't wonder what's
behind the second curtain
or cut his poor heart out
tired of being a surgeon
maybe next time
I'll be more certain.
maybe...
I'm a little less...
than I was last year
a little bit wiser
with a little less cheer.
it's all give and take
but what'd I give away?
and am I okay
with what I have to take?
another January first,
a new year with old problems
don't they always seem to catch you
right when you think you lost them?
Maybe next time
I'll be more certain,
won't wonder what's
behind the second curtain
or cut his poor heart out
tired of being a surgeon
maybe next time
I'll be more certain.
maybe...
I'm a little less...
709 reads
1 Comment
SONG LYRICS
Published
7th Jan 2013 00:20am
7th Jan 2013 00:20am
Misery and Company
I never told you how you hurt me,
no, I never spoke those words at all.
that very last night in my apartment
I let you leave and I took your fall.
Do you remember holding my hand?
Smiling bigger than you had since I left
I thought "hey" sometimes there's a second chance
but all I became was a victim of theft.
You never had the courtesy for closure
so how am I supposed to stitch my wounds
when I am missing the most vital part
my heart.
I just want to know
if I meant anything
was I just a part of
misery and company?...
no, I never spoke those words at all.
that very last night in my apartment
I let you leave and I took your fall.
Do you remember holding my hand?
Smiling bigger than you had since I left
I thought "hey" sometimes there's a second chance
but all I became was a victim of theft.
You never had the courtesy for closure
so how am I supposed to stitch my wounds
when I am missing the most vital part
my heart.
I just want to know
if I meant anything
was I just a part of
misery and company?...
688 reads
2 Comments
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