The Right to Cry - Matt Elliott

You are the prisoner

And you are the guard

You are the one who constructed the bars

And despite this protection

You still end up scarred

Cos people are people

They are who they are

I was no better or worse than the fray

Who did conspire to take you and hide you away

But I never wanted you to suffocate

Or burry you under I never once said a…

Lie in your own bed

The one that you’ve made there

Wrap yourself up in the comfort of despair

That way you need never share

You’ll never be forced to care

You can just sit there an stare

At your own beautiful hair

Because there’s little else there

When your world comes crashing down

Don’t ever think back

And don’t remeber me

And all the things we could have seen

Those days were long ago and things were different then

And when your world comes crashing down

Your looks have faded and only worry lines remain

Expression lost and drained

Your passions unfulfilled just an amply shell remains

And when, when your world comes

Crashing down don’t cry

Don’t look down

You should dry

Those once pretty eyes

Cos you have lost the right

The right to cry

Hold me like you used to do again

Hold me like you used to do my friend

Again…

I was only saying

Perhaps I went too far

I was only praying

That you would invite me to your arms

I was only saying

Perhaps it’s time for me to leave

I was only praying

That somehow you would look behind

My eyes and you would see

But you don’t

I’m haunted by the things that we left behind

And try as I might I just can’t get you out of my mind

You read all the wrong signs

Projection projection projection but they weren’t right

You’ll find given the time

That I was all of the things you were trying to find