Holding On (song# 117)

Holding On

You make me weak

You make me strong

You make feel like I'm just holding on

You make me right

You make me wrong

You make feel like I'm just holding on

You once wanted me for worse or for better

And that was supposed to be forever

But for so long now you tend to pull away

Worse than stepping backwards is stepping to the side

You make me weak

You make me strong

You make feel like I'm just holding on

You make me right

You make me wrong

You make feel like I'm just holding on

I've never thought of them as empty promises

But now they feel like excuses

And I don't know why we have to change

Worse than turning blind eyes is closing them 

You make me weak

You make me strong

You make feel like I'm just holding on

You make me right

You make me wrong

You make feel like I'm just holding on

I know I don't fill your vision like I used to

And you haven't looked at me like that for so very long

I know my weaknesses haven't strengthened our longer view

And you can't always be that strong 

You make me weak

You make me strong

You make feel like I'm just holding on

You make me right

You make me wrong

You make feel like I'm just holding on

© 2014 by Richard Maxwell

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This Has Always Been (song #116)

This Has Always Been

I gave in to your control

You get to call all the shots

But you're still not happy

Telling me what is and what is not

What cards I can play

And what hands I can turn

This has always been your game

I know that nothing hasn't changed

No one's right when no one's to blame

Do you still want to feel the same?

I keep trying to let it all go

I've trusted you to play this fair

But only you have changed me

And you seem so very unaware

I can't get inside

I cannot get through

This has always been your game

I know that nothing hasn't changed

No one's right when no one's to blame

Do you still want to feel the same?

Everything in moderation

Not just idle fascination

The heart's desecration

An endless and empty conversation

Am I cutting you?

Are these words getting in?

Do I need to start over?

I don't know where to (I should?) begin

This has always been your game

I know that nothing hasn't changed

No one's right when no one's to blame

Do you still want to feel the same?

© 2014 by Richard Maxwell

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Everything That Remains (song #115)

Everything That Remains

Time can give you distance

But the path of least resistance

Has never really worked for you and me

So much time has now gone by

Ties that bind us you and I

I would (will?) never untie those (these?) strings

I may not know what’s good for me

But you have always made (can always make?) me believe

So many times I’m lost (and) you get me found

I am not the saint they think

So when my head is on the brink

You make sure that I’m on solid ground

Break down all of our defenses

Nothing left to protect us

Everything that remains

Makes everything ok

‘Cuz you and I are more than just connected

Never needing what been rejected

Everything that remains

Makes everything ok

Sometimes there’s nothing left to say

And I tend to get in my own way

You put up with so much of my pride

I don’t understand how you can stand it

The way that I can take you for granted

How many things that you have been denied

Break down all of our defenses

Nothing left to protect us

Everything that remains

Makes everything ok

‘Cuz you and I are more than just connected

Never needing what been rejected

Everything that remains

Makes everything ok

Real love is more complicated

Than just a crush back when we dated

I only know what love is now

Because you showed me how

I love you

Break down all of our defenses

Nothing left to protect us

Everything that remains

Makes everything ok

‘Cuz you and I are more than just connected

Never needing what been rejected

Everything that remains

Makes everything ok

© 2014 by Richard Maxwell

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How Does It Feel? (song #114)

How Does It Feel?

I know your secret

The one you keep from me

I know that everything

Is nothing like it seems

I know that the truth

Can hide behind the lines

Masked beneath the surface

Waiting for its time

How does it feel

Knowing no one’s being fooled?

How does it feel

Knowing you don’t make the rules?

Anymore

I know you tell stories

To blur what’s in your past

I know you are only low

Nothing of you will last

I know you play a game

Just because you know you can

I know you manipulate

That was (is?) always your plan

How does it feel

Knowing no one’s being fooled?

How does it feel

Knowing you don’t make the rules?

Anymore

I’ll bet you’ll say you saw this one coming

I’ll bet you’ll say you felt it in the air

I’ll bet you’ll say that you knew it all along

The thing is, I don’t care

How does it feel

Knowing no one’s being fooled?

How does it feel

Knowing you don’t make the rules?

Anymore

I know your secret

The one you keep from me

Unlike you I don’t know it all

But I know everything

How does it feel

Knowing no one’s being fooled?

How does it feel

Knowing you don’t make the rules?

Anymore


© 2014 by Richard Maxwell

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