This love, play on repeat

Acting without loving, loving without acting

Twisted cycle, this song plays on repeat

Candle lit compassion, burnt out overnight

Love paralleled with law, polluting as it seems

A counterfeit emotion, always based to please

To gain the world, forget this true heart

Sugar-coated performance, deepest need done wrong

Loving, loving, leading to nothing

Authenticity so close, never replicated

Side-by-side, this concealed ache

Why not feed it with a genuine air

Love so true, never second guessed

Spoken and felt, transparent and sensed

Nourishes like a ballad, play it on repeat

Goodbye Strange, Familiar Friend

You welcomed me with hurt and pain

Wet eyes, dark heart, that's how we met

Strange at first, you entered in

Soft, slow, familiar friend

A year would start with tired eyes

Grabbing hold of any good within

Heavy, wanting, I fed you first

Weaknesses, persuaded right

That girl is strange

But familiar still

Alive in the moment

Gasping in the end

An appetite of tainted bread

Satisfaction is not supposed to ache

Attractive infection became your name

You didn't know I was strong enough

Yesterday I said goodbye

Smiling as you walked away

An awkward fit you were inside

Just a memory of a faded friend