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Take The Black

Because nobody can tell what is written on the wind
And because nobody can tell just how quickly things can end
Turns out im not the kind of person who believes in fate or destiny
Just kinda go with the day and see what it throws at me

And then one day im at my desk
and like as usual you walked past
You gave me a smile
i gave you a joke
you gave me a sympathetic laugh
That i took into my heart
Where low confidence is rife
Instantly you're my khaleesi 
You be the moon of my life
Now that last rhyme was lazy
And im sorry it was obvious
But i feel those words
were the best words
To try and get my point across

You see, she'll send me an email from across the room
"Hey darling, how was your evening? What you get up to?"
And it makes my day just to think she thought of me
Before logging on, or signing in or making a coffee
So i reply
and try to be funny
and try to be awesome
and i try to play it cool
But everry sentence i write just looks like "awww i well fancy you"

Which would be cool if i didn't
But i do, So it's not
Im so fucking obvious
Im like shutter islands plot
And im so transparent
You can call me griffin
Im pretty fucking obvious
I guess Is what i are saying

But now every now and then
I like to fool myself again
That the smile that you did send
Was meant for more than just a friend
And like to just pretend
But now its the weekend
So I'll see you on Monday

There's a place in my heart
And the shape of it is you sized
Didn't realise at the start
But i can't say im surprised
That i now see you this way
And I hope that you understand
At night and throughout the day
I kinda just wanna hold your hand
And i know its unlikely
That you like me to
Im a bit of a nerd
But opposites do
Attract
It's a fact
n all of that
But still i look at my feet
and retract

And now it is Monday again
I get that stupid grin
I get to see your face again
And that's for the win
Because the weekend has been
Such a drawn out thing
Getting baked with my friends
Will this mundane ever end?

You see i like your face
And i think you're really pretty
You stimulate my mind
And you make me alittle giddy
And you make me alittle happy
And you make me act a fool
And you make me wanna slap me
For acting like said fool

For the things that i do
When i'm around you
Let me give you an example
If you were princess Toadstall
And you were captured by Bowser
Id come running and id save
Over mushroom hills
underwater levels
and deepest darkest cave
Fighting koopa troops, boos & goompas
Won't stop until the end
Jumping straight
from worlds 1, 3 then 8
The warp whistle is my friend

So im at the final level
And your face is in my sight
But before the heroic kiss
Time for the main boss fight
Now the main boss is easier
Than real life can be
Just jump on his head 3 times
And it's on to victory

But real life is harder
And i wish that i knew
All of the things to say and do
To try and impress you
And it's hard to talk to you
Without a cpu
So I'll see you on Monday

There's a place in my heart
And the shape of it is you sized
Didn't realise at the start
But i can't say im surprised
That i now see you this way
And I hope that you understand
At night and throughout the day
I kinda just wanna hold your hand
And i know its unlikely
That you like me to
Im a bit of a nerd
But opposites do
Attract
It's a fact
n all of that
But still i look at my feet
and retract

Back to the fact
That im a nerd
And that's that
With a johnny cupcakes hat
And an antisocial cat
Spurting ice and fire facts
Wishing that i was the bat!
So to my nerd cave i go back

To That Guy

Hello dad this be your son
And although you were gone
Before my life had begun
You've still had a profound effect
On how I have grown
So I'm writing you this poem
So it is known

That all the things i have done
Have been done not to become
That guy that i despise
That guy who has my eyes
That guy who left
When my mums life was a mess
And she didn't know what to do
Where the fuck were you?

And when the years went by
And let you see me she did try
But you were to busy
To care about my life
To busy with your new family
That came just after me
So if that's who you want to be
Then fuck you

Im a stronger person
Without you around
And my life is greener
Than your side of the ground
I've been brought up to respect women
That's something you couldn't teach
And why would i listen to anything
You decided to preach

Why would i listen
To the lessons of a man
Who Ditched his responsibilities
For a slightly better fam
You see
I don't fuck around
And I do not drink
So unlike you
I have the fucking ability to think
About the way i present myself
And the way others do see me
And of the fucking consequences
Of a standard fuck and flee

But I still sit and wonder
But not for very long
And not in great depth
And I know that I am wrong
To want to come and meet you
Maybe one day I'll have the strength
That's something I'll continue to think through
The man who put my life on the bench

The Three Eyed Crow

On my lonesome again,
Just looking for a friend
Just somebody to help me
Protect and defend
These ideas that I have
about how we should be 
These aren't rules for you
But guidlines for me

To be a better someone
A better someone not a no one
And to discover how it begun
My passion to be awesome
And lift my head up up
Above all the crowd
and scream to all you heroes
I'm a nerd and I'm proud

You see I don't drink
I like to stay home and just read
Pick up the 360 pad
And I'm hoarding nordish mead!
Or I'm chasing down the joker
With a cowl and a cape
This shit is childish to you
But its how I escape

So then I go out
And I try to entertain
That I'm not all that different
That I am kinda the same
As the users and the abusers
and the whores and the losers
And all the many others
that society puts above us

And I wanna scream as I don't fit in
When something cool happens and I'm like "that's for the win!"
And they look at me, like what the frail you saying?
That's right I said frail!
Fuck the scarans, serbations representing

Then I saw you
And you saw me saw you too
And I'm not your type
But you're drunk and ill do
But I won't
Because this ain't how I wanna be
This aint how I wanna meet you
Now the next buy starts in three
Two
One
Two
Three
So I sit on my bed and write this little tune
More as an sos than a song looking for you
Don't get me wrong I would like to get to know you
But you're likely a dick, so on I persue
That's right
I sit on my bed and write this little tune
More as an sos than a song looking for you
Don't get me wrong I would like to get to know you
But you're likely a douche

So now I'm balls deep
In this shallow conversation
And this is the point
That I start to get the impression
That anything I say
Will be met with positive reaction
With the hope that it will result
In filthy bedroom action

So I get my nerd on
And I see how far I can take it
And see how far in this geek out
She can fake "IT"
"IT" being the interest in certain nerdy things
Like did you know robin eventually becomes nightwing?
Did you know Ben Jacob Grimm becomes The Thing?
Would you watch the vhs from the ring?
Did you know that of the north
Rob Stark is the king

And she just sits
With that distant stare
Her head nods in agreement
But I can see she don't care
About all of these things
That mean everything to me
Sweetheart I'm not exactly
The guy you thought me to be
I'm not the kind of guy
Who gets off on cheap fucking
And I'm not the kind of guy
Who enjoys promiscuous sex
As soon as I say these words
She gets to stepping
And I wonder who she
Will aim for next

So I sit back
And I dream I have a Snapple
And I make sure
The seven know that I am thankful
That I got out of here
Without an std
But more importantly
Without you

Go Rapture yourself!

It was at about the age of twenty
When I was pondering the holy trinity
and it all seemed a little ridiculous to me
the thought of one holy entitie
And as the years went on
This girl came along
From across the pond
With a belief system
That was all kinds of wrong

She said
you know what?
for an atheist you're not
What I expect
I said
funny, for an idiot
You're exactly what I expect
You lack common decency
At every single step
And anything you don't agree with
You simply won't respect

You told me that 
All gays are evil
And Colbert is the devil
Obama is a Muslim
There's one god not several
You came from a rib 
Just like every woman did
They tell this shit to little kids
And I find it fucking baffling

And I'm not calling you an idiot
because you've found religion 
I'm calling you an idiot
because it wasn't your decision
your parents had laid the foundation
years of strategic plantation
that homosexuality
is the groundwork of Satan

So go cry me some holy water
And regurgitate the nonsense
That your parents taught ya 
And please don't even begin
To listen to my opinion
Your truth may be your truth
But it ain't what I'm feeling

Now
If you believe in a higher power, the last
Thing I'm going to do is look down on you
I'm happy that you found whatever it is  that helps you get through
The day to day strain
life truly can be tough
So whatever keeps you sane
That's surely enough
Right???

No. It's not enough for you fucking people is it?
You've gotta stamp your feet and make the loudest noise, then people will know that your point is valid.
lie and cover up the molestation of young boys. then have the audacity to rule over who can get married
and don't even fucking start with "it's gods word"
Ok?
Here's a deal
you go find a picture of god
I'll go find a picture of batman
whoever gets back to this point first
wins the argument
GO TIME!
And youve got the flops look at me like I'm a fucking asshat
Because I find it more likely that a nightly  vigilante who fights crime as a Bat 
Is more plausible than your
6 days of creation
and all that

and I could almost hear a pop
as air entered the vacuum
that your body mass occupied
only a nanosecond earlier
before I took the time to remind you
That your religion is a re do
Of a religion that's a re do
Of a religion that's a re do
I could repeat myself for hours
If you really want me to
If that's what I need to do
I'll scream until I turn blue

so i stroke my beard and stare off into the distance
and wonder if history will even stoop to acknowledge your existence
or would you fade away
no memories would stay
or on this world would you
leave a permanent stain
But at the end of the day
All I'm really trying to say
Is
Please don't have children

Say Goodbye To These

We've got this cat named kitty
And she doesn't care to much for me
Eventhough I talk to her in Dothraki
And do the things you do
To try and keep a cat healthy
I give her eats
And I buy her treats
And don't go mad when she shits on my sheets
And when she tries to kill me
by tripping up my feets
I'm still like
Awwwwww you so sweet

And she looks at me like
Who the fuck are you
Don't you fucking look at me
Now where the fuck is my food
Open the fridge
Get the pouch
Then deliver food to mouth
And then fuck you I'm out
Imma go and kill a mouse

She kinda looks like toothless from how to train your  dragon
Sad eyes
That hide
In a little ball of fluff
But she'll rip the shit out of your posters
If you don't give her any attention
Then she'll look you in the eye and be like
Fuck your stuff

But I love the shit out of that little kitty
Even though she prefers my housemates to me
And although she'll never invite me
to one of her cat parties
At the end of the day
At least she's not a fucking dog

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