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Besides
03:00
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Besides
by Ross Bellenoit
I thought I was dying
But I was only crying
Crying in the quiet of the room
I thought you were leaving
My love you were thieving
Screaming for the morning light to bloom
I thought I was more than
Just another stoned man
Reaching for your heartstrings to play
You thought I was saving
All my love for someone
Else who simply never could have stayed
You wished I had never
Opened up the letter
Besides all the b-sides on your shelf
Now with all the friction
Fueling our addiction
I can't find what's left of my true self
I thought I was dying
But i was only trying
To get your attention
To hold your affection
(May, 2011)
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I Can't Help
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I Can't Help
by Ross Bellenoit
Four points on a map
An equidistant trap
When do the places we live become the places we long for?
Inside the bud of a rose
Belies what everyone knows
It's what you dream of at night, it's what I sing my song for
But I can't help falling in love with you...
I'm having trouble with time
It's running backwards in rhyme
When do the people we love become the people we die for
Ain't having trouble with sin
It's all I seem to be in
It's all I seem to be capable of telling a lie for
But I can't help falling in love with you...
What do you want me to do?
I'm turning black and blue now
Cause I keep falling for you, anyhow...
In time the road may be clear
Before we all disappear
Before the memory fades into the hour unending
And you'll be walking with me
Just like the way it should be
At least that's how i'm interpreting the signal you're sending
But I can't help falling in love with you...
(January, 2009)
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To Be Free
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To Be Free
By Ross Bellenoit
We blew through the valley with dynamite speed
Fulfilling the want of wanting the need
To be free
Once we were there, we saw what we could
We saw we could never do what we should
To be free
And now when we run we keep looking away
Afraid of the darkness that's leading the way
To be free
The laws of the land are now leading the lame
Wading through fire and walking through flame
To be free
Uncover the coldness you hide in your chest
And know when you try that you're trying your best
To be free
The joke is a good one
You've heard it in jest
You've had it inscribed to the skin of your breast
But when the disaster
Becomes your disease
You can't quite recall all the words to your decrees
So we blew through the valley with dynamite speed
Fulfilling the want of wanting the need
To be free
In time the decision to live and let live
Will be made by a world that can learn to forgive
And be free
(September, 2009)
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Stranger
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Stranger
by Ross Bellenoit
How can you be such a stranger?
I've known you once before
You never asked for anything
And still I gave you more
Oh, how you'd be my precious one
My darling little angel
So how can you be such a stranger to me now?
Oh, I would count the days on end
Towards the time when you'd pretend
To love me, for a minute or two
But now you seem to ignore
The things that we had once before
They're trapped inside the things you say and do...
So how can you be such a stranger?
You know where we have been
I'm knocking on your golden door
But you won't let me in
I only have the greatest love
It isn't so insane
So how can you be such a stranger?
How can you be such a stranger?
How can you be such a stranger to me now?
(March, 2010)
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Lockless Heart
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Lockless Heart
by Ross Bellenoit
The blessings in your beautiful bones
Have kept me from bringing it home
To you
You could break me in two
The soft light flickers side to side
To the sway of your hip and the crux of your stride
You could pull me apart
Such a lockless heart
Sometime, when we're old and sad
We'll remember the love we never could have
I'm a coward at heart
I knew it right from the start
The soft light flickers side to side
To the sway of your hip and the crux of your stride
You could pull me apart
Such a lockless heart
Straight into the eyes of a fool
You shoot your stare, collected and cool
I'm always falling down on my knees
You never say "yes"
I only say "please"
Please
Please
Please, oh please...
(February, 2010)
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Victories
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Victories
by Ross Bellenoit
The sun is such a fickle thief
He'll steal away your driest tears
And the darkest light illuminates
The passing of your fading years
A blister from your burning hand
Will shake the truth right from the tree
And fall to tell your open eyes
That what you get is all you see
Inside the chaos of belief
Is something that you couldn't hold
No light of love, no weight of grief
No victories of blood and gold
Poised above the brink of change
A love awaits your simple sound
It asks of you to rearrange
Your memories on common ground
Inside the chaos of belief...
There's more behind an open door
It's calling you to take it home
Walking with a heart so poor
It begs for you to beat your own
Inside the chaos of belief...
(October, 2009)
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