Scared to Fall
By Amanda Holmes


So weird to hear your voice,
I know its been my choice, not to see you again,
and tho its been a while, it’d be nice to see your smile,
I wish that we’d be friends but I’d be lyin if I said I could,
some day we’ll meet again, but for now we’re just friends through the wire.

Chorus:
I’m scared to fall, I’m scared to give in to you, I’m scared to fly, scared to fall, for you, again.

Your still top of my speed dial, I have pictures up inside my room,  
Its weird to think that you and I don’t need each other to survive
And I miss you so but I can’t let you know, I can’t give you hope
I can’t hurt you again, our hearts need the time to mend

Chorus

Bridge:
I thought, you held me down, Without you I seem lighter,
But now, I’ve hit the ground, it was you that lifted me higher

Chorus

Came to Us in Mexico
Lyrics by Brittany Crawshaw
Music by Amanda Holmes

Verse:
We waited for the sun to rise, sunk our feet into the sand
Held the horizon in our eyes, let time trickle through our hands
I wouldn’t trade a moment, only wish that I could hold each still
Don’t take for granted, the world turns and always will

Prechorus:
Waiting for light to come.
But all the while I didn’t need the sun
When I had your smile

Chorus:
The world never turns how we expect it.
There’s only one exception
All you want and you let it go
You have it and you just don’t know
It came to us in mexico

Verse 2:
The ocean licked our toes, we forgot what we were after
Waves crashed but could not swallow, the rhythm of our laughter
We listened till we realized. The sun was in the sky
It had risen from behind

Chorus (repeat)

If
Poem by Rudyard Kipling

V1:
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting
If you can think, and not let thoughts be your aim
If you can meet with triumph and disaster,
Treat those two imposters just the same
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken

Chorus:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
Risk it on one turn of pitch and toss
Lose and start again at your beginnings
Never breathe a word about your loss
You’ll be a man my son

V2:
If you can force your heart, nerve, and senew
To serve your turn long after they are gone
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them hold on

Chorus:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
Risk it on one turn of pitch and toss
Lose and start again at your beginnings
Never breathe a word about your loss,
You’ll be a man my son

Bridge:
If you can talk with the crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with the kings nor lose the common touch
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you
If all men count with you but none too much

Outro:
Then, yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
You’ll be a Man my son.

Monsters (Bang It Started)
Lyrics by Brittany Crawshaw


Bang it started and her heart is

Pulsing, muscles convulsing,

Throat constricted, should have been restricting

Fears that creep

Bang it’s started and the dark is

Chilling, floorboards spilling

Secrets of things, must be lurking

She cannot sleep

 

Unadulterated and pure

Adulthood will taint her

Don’t want truth disseminated

Once inseminated

There’s no cure

 

Her fertile mind will conceive

The nightmare of reality

Her heart goes black

There’s no going back

Innocence lies in ignorance

 

(chorus)

 

Lie still, don’t wake, don’t stir

To check for the monster

If he becomes invalidated

Kills imagination

Your protector

 

That fragile mind won’t believe

The comfort of your dreams

Eyes shut tight

Stay young inside

Innocence lies in ignorance

 

Don’t fear the dark, fear the spark

What’s enlightening is far more frightening

Home life elucidated, under the bed illuminated,

Nothing is there, no one cares

You’re all alone

 
(chorus)

(chorus)

ROOTLESS
Lyrics by Brittany Crawshaw

100 rings, 100 memories
circle at the heart
of the weathered bark
father and I carved
initials to mark
a memoir
of days spent in the shade

why’d you have to leave
its just me and the oak tree
we both wait on memories

why’d you have to leave
all our fallen dreams
wind swept away with the breeze

without my roots how will I grow
without you how will I know
to be sturdy,
cos I’m falling,
Without my roots
Without you

100 things you never said to me
circle at my heart
beneath the scars
Like the oak my skin is hard
But pine for real arms
both been starved
our boughs so bare now

why’d you have to leave
its just me and the oak tree
we both wait on memories

why’d you have to leave
all our fallen dreams
wind swept away with the breeze

without my roots how will I grow
without you how will I know
to be sturdy,
cos I’m falling,
Without my roots
Without you

roots grow deep
you wouldn’t leave
no matter the season
roots grow deep
you’d never leave
unless there’s a reason

to be sturdy,
cos I’m falling,
Without my roots
Without you