Lost Boys

Fractured pigments in photographs
Fake smiles you’ll never take back
Tread light through all your failures
I’ll sit tight in your perfect framework

We were the runaways
The shut ins
The could have beens
But they’ll never understand
What it meant to me

I’m not saying that no ones gonna save me
But I’ve got to make my own luck
I gave you chance after chance
And still you spite me
Despite all my best efforts
I hear you speaking in tongues
Discredit my efforts
Haven’t you done enough?
You’re so presumptuous

Fractures in your perfect framework
Life lessons I had to relearn
I won’t let my life become repetitive
A work of art developed from a negative

I have to burn before I can rise
Up from the ashes
Before the sun can rise