My whole world fall down
The smiling face of yesterday
So innocent and sincere
What a price she had to pay
A life of pain and fear.
Running around her coloured room
A face of happiness, care free
The perfect life, you would assume
Something that would never be.
Only 5, calm, sweet and true
So innocent and small
With not even a single clue
Of the girl who would shock them all
10 years later, what has changed
Why a life full of pain?
Her innocence, sweetness exchanged
Washed straight down the drain.
A life of drugs and drink
Something or anything to block out
A life that seems to sink and sink.
A life that’s filled with doubt.
Another year later, even worse
Another pill, drown the sorrow
Nothing to escape this curse
Hopes to not wake up tomorrow
A never ending dark depression
Forever growing, forever showing
Each day a new confession
Loosing the will to keep on going.
A worthless life full of sadness
Never able to succeed
From the outside it all is madness
A heart that continues to bleed.
Fake a smile everyday
Its easier than to frown
Slowly watch my petals fall away
My whole world fall down.
Love Knows No Distance
How can the world judge what we do today?
If we mean but well, how are we astray?
How can anyone dare tell us we’re wrong
When our hearts speak otherwise?
So often we’re told to keep straight in line.
“Don’t be diff’rent for it’s a deadly crime.
Love through lines and wires can never be real.”
This they claim with heartless words;
Even my family doesn’t want to believe
Through chance I found my lover on a screen
But when we’ve cut the wires and joined our hands
I have to wonder if they understand
He’s just a stranger that I met online
I’m sure to get it if we meet in real time
But I know better: We’re in love, you see
And if they still claim to know better than me
I’ll tell the fools the truth that you’re
My favorite stranger.
Oh yes, my favorite stranger.
How can the world believe in their own lies,
Discourage hope, bring tears to empty eyes?
They care not for the heartbreak that they cause,
Only their selfish belief.
Maybe they’ll come to realize in time
When my heart stays with you, your hand in mine
Not every man thinks only of one thing;
Nor am I a desperate fool.
I know you well; I’ve read you like a book,
And every day I take another look.
Love’s about learning, and we always will.
Yet even when we touch they insist still
He’s just a stranger that I met online
I’m sure to get it when we meet in real time
But I know better: We’re in love, you see
And if they still claim to know better than me
I’ll tell the fools the truth that you’re
My favorite stranger.
You’re my favorite stranger.
Not a word amiss, not a soul apart:
You’re the living breath behind my beating heart
You’re the reason I am filled with love today
And no lie can take that away.
You’re just a stranger that I met online,
But we’re the same now that we’ve met in real time.
Yes, I knew better; I trusted my heart.
And even when we’ll once more be apart,
I’ll insist you’ll always be
My favorite stranger.
Author’s Comments
The world claims that is it impossible to love over long distance or the internet because you supposedly “cannot know the person” and because of the lack of physical contact.
My sister in particular made a rather snide remark the day before Jeff arrived, claiming, “He’s only a stranger. You can’t possibly know anything about him. You’ve invited a stranger to our house.”
Of course, I know much better. I got exactly what was “advertised”.
I wanted to write this song because of that inspiration. Many people mistakenly say that online friends cannot be real friends and online love is impossible. They refuse to accept that there are some circles of interest so small that perhaps the only way to connect them is by the internet. They refuse to accept that some people have greater patience and understanding and honesty than the average man and can deal with the hardships of a long-distance relationship.
They refuse to accept that not everyone in the internet is a serial killer or rapist looking for their next victim, instead choosing to believe the media which is so often full of filth and lies.
Internet and long-distance relationships are certainly not for everyone, but to the determined, such obstacles will not last forever. Not even those who do not believe in us, or mock us, or discourage us.
I did not write this, but i think its lovely, credit to the author.
My View: Knife Crime
It breaks my heart to see another family torn apart on the news by knife crime in Britain, as Britain is named the Knife Crime capital in the developing world.
Statistics vary, but both the worst-case and the other statistics are far too much.
“A worst case projection indicates that 60,000 young people (predominantly male) may be stabbed and injured in the UK each year”
That’s a shocking 164 a day.
however
“A rather more conservative estimate could be 22,000.”
That’s 60 a day.
The statistics vary, but there is one thing that doesn’t. Far too many people are injured or killed in Britain due to knife crime. It needs to stop. Knife Crime tears families apart, ends lives, young and old. It takes such a small amount of time to kill someone with a knife, but results in a lifetime of tragedy for the victims family. Even if the attack isn’t fatel, the result stays with the people affected.
Young people are carrying knives without being aware of the consequences. While watching Eastenders this week I watched the stabbing of Jay Brown, played by Jamie Borthwick I am happy that soaps such as Eastenders are bringing these Issues to life, and showing the consequences that carrying a knife can have. The stabbing also highlighted the problems of Gang Crime. Jay told his dad Jase Dyer, that he wasn’t going to use the knife he was carrying. Jase told him that if you carry a knife you will use it, or it will be used against you. Young people don’t seem to understand this concept. The BBC received almost 200 complaints about the episode, saying it was to violent for a 7:oo show, as children could of seen it. Surly if it is tackling knife and gang crime, surely it was beneficial for young people and children to of seen it?
As knife crime continues to rise in Britain, I just hope that this problem can be tackled and controlled to save people being hurt. It is not just teenagers and young people who get affected by this, as highlighted in Eastenders. People of all ages are at risk. It is common these-days to see grieving parents on the news while eating dinner, but there are also children grieving for their parents.
I hope we can see a fall in knife crime soon to save any more hurt and pain that is caused, and families which are torn apart.
Samie 