There I was, sitting in my room
contemplating life's cruel jokes
when the phone startled me from my trance
Yet another fantasy broken

But I was glad to hear from you
in your time of sheer distress
I've been so upset with your troubles
Your voice was such a quiet caress

You began to apologize
for mistakes not your own
I helped nurture your mind
You gave me everything from your soul

I invited you over to chat
A request you graciously accepted
So we had a few beers
That night could have never ended

But when it seemed we had enough
and the sun began to rise
We both knew we could not go back
Our feelings we could not disguise

That night was our night
and nothing will take that away
Locked together in eternal harmony
We talked through the night, and then you stayed

You, my good friend, my best friend
always played
I asked for your hand
and then you stayed

When you think of paradise what do you see?
A land of beauty surrounded by sea?
A lovely forest drowning in green?
Flowers as far as the eyes can see?

Everyone's got a different idea; a different view
What does paradise look like to you?

Do you see it wherever you go?

Don't you have a happy place?
To bring forth a smile upon your face?

I had this illusion once
I had my place to be
when things got too crowded here
I had a taste of it all to myself
and I spit it right back out

Paradise
It sounds nice
But what happens when you arrive
and things aren't like they're supposed to be?

My day begins when the sun ends
I rise from my grave seeking prey
Love on my mind
Death on my breath
The taste of you won't go away

Through the window I sneak
Perhaps just a peek
But this hunger rages inside
It's you I can't deny

Blending gracefully with the night
My bloodshot eyes target your soul
Crosshairs aimed
On my list: the devil's kiss
To grasp your heart is my true goal

I approach from above
To become drunk on your love
'Cause this hunger rages inside
It's you I can't deny

I soar like a vulture through the air
Circling your corpse lying below me
I accept your offer
A flood of blood
As my fangs sink deeply into your dreams

Come inside my dear
You've nothing to fear
Our hunger becomes one
Together we'll live forever

BEAUTY

by: Charles Baudelaire

AM as lovely as a dream in stone,
And this my heart where each finds death in turn,
Inspires the poet with a love as lone
As clay eternal and as taciturn.

Swan-white of heart, a sphinx no mortal knows,
My throne is in the heaven's azure deep;
I hate all movements that disturb my pose,
I smile not ever, neither do I weep.

Before my monumental attitudes,
That breathe a soul into the plastic arts,
My poets pray in austere studious moods,

For I, to fold enchantment round their hearts,
Have pools of light where beauty flames and dies,
The placid mirrors of my luminous eyes.