ambitious | 𝑰'𝒎 𝒇𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒚.

Yeah I wish I’d been a, wish I’d been a teen, teen idle
Wish I’d been a prom queen fighting for the title
Instead of being sixteen and burning up a bible

Edited 2014-01-22 01:17 (UTC)

I've never seen a diamond in the flesh
I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies
And I'm not proud of my address,
In a torn-up town, no postcode envy

Edited 2014-01-22 01:16 (UTC)

I've seen the world, lit it up
As my stage now
Channeling angels in the new age now
Hot summer days, rock 'n' roll
The way you play for me at your show
And all the ways I got to know
Your pretty face and electric soul

Edited 2014-01-22 01:13 (UTC)

There's something that's weighin' heavy on my heart
And heavy on my chest
I'm the lone night, you're the morning
I annoy you, and you bore me
And it's hard enough to make it through a world that's already a mess
All in good time, we'll be just fine
Either way we need to be happy

Edited 2014-01-22 01:11 (UTC)

Oh sex and lies and mystery
They don't bring out the best in me
Keep jumping from one lover to another
Thank you for the time you've taken
Cleaning up the mess I'm making
Make the same mistake over and over

Edited 2014-01-22 01:10 (UTC)

Please don't stand so close to me
I'm having trouble breathing
I'm afraid of what you'll see right now
I give you everything I am
All my broken heart beats
Until I know you'll understand

Edited 2014-01-22 01:09 (UTC)

Give me love like her,
'Cause lately I've been waking up alone,
Pain splattered teardrops on my shirt,
Told you I'd let them go,

And that I'll fight my corner,
Maybe tonight I'll call ya,
After my blood turns into alcohol,
No, I just wanna hold ya.

Edited 2014-01-22 01:08 (UTC)

Just give me a reason
Just a little bit's enough
Just a second we're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again
It's in the stars
It's been written in the scars on our hearts
We're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again

Edited 2014-01-22 01:07 (UTC)

I know you only want to own me
And that’s the kind of love you show me
You tell me one thing and do another
Keep all your secrets undercover

Yeah you played the martyr for so long
That you can’t do anything wrong

Edited 2014-01-22 00:58 (UTC)

I've lost a grip on where I started from
I wish I'd thought ahead and left a few crumbs
I'm on the hunt for who I've not yet become
But I'd settle for a little equilibrium
There is a war inside my heart gone silent
Both sides dissatisfied and somewhat violent
The issue I have now begun to see
I am the only lonely casualty

Edited 2014-01-22 00:57 (UTC)

Oh Lord, Oh Lord, what have I done?
I've fallen in love with a man on the run
Oh Lord, Oh Lord, I'm begging you please
Don't take that sinner from me
Oh don't take that sinner from me

Edited 2015-04-02 05:23 (UTC)

Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And the worst part is there's no one else to blame

Edited 2014-01-22 00:55 (UTC)

We used to look at the stars and confess our dreams
Hold each other to the morning light
We used to laugh, now we only fight
Baby are you lonesome now?

Edited 2014-01-22 01:20 (UTC)

She's giving boys what they want
Tries to act so nonchalant
Afraid to see that she's lost her direction
She never stays the same for long
Assuming that she'll get it wrong
Perfect only in her imperfection

Edited 2014-01-22 01:21 (UTC)

All of your flaws and all of my flaws
They lie there hand in hand
Ones we've inherited, ones that we learned
They pass from man to man
You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve
And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground
Dig them up; let's finish what we've started
Dig them up, so nothing's left unturned

Edited 2014-01-22 01:23 (UTC)

Revolution from dissolution, hypnotizing and demoralizing
Pressure of the future, too much for today
How many hours will I let slip away
Before I realize existing and living
Are not the same
Are not the same

Edited 2015-04-23 16:01 (UTC)

There's an albatross around your neck,
All the things you've said,
and the things you've done,
Can you carry it with no regrets,
Can you stand the person you've become,
Ooh there's a light

Your Albatross, let it go, let it go,
Your Albatross shoot it down, shoot it down
When you just can't shake
The heavy weight of living

I've had good times
With some bad guys
I've told whole lies
With a half smile
Held your bare bones
With my clothes on
I've thrown rocks
That hit both my arms

Kamikaze airplanes in the sky
Are we going down or will we fly?
This could be a shipwreck on the shore
Or we could sail away forevermore
This time it's sink or swim, sink or swim

I was a blindfold, never complained
All the survivors singing in the rain
I was the one with the world at my feet

Got us a battle, leave it up to me

We think the first time's good enough.
So, we hold on to high school love.
Sayin' we won't end up like our parents.
Tiny little boxes in a row.
Ain't what you want, it's what you know.
Just happy in the shoes you're wearin'.
Same checks we're always cashin' to buy a little more distraction.

I've lived a lot of different lives
Been different people many times
I live my life in bitterness
And fill my heart with emptiness

And now I see, I see it for the first time,
There is no crime in being kind
Not everyone is out to screw you over.
Maybe, oh just maybe they just wanna get to know ya.

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

I want a lover, I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
Where's the kid with the chemicals?
I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full
I need a meaning I can memorize
The kind I have always seems to slip my mind

Edited 2014-01-23 02:46 (UTC)

The bar is set so high that I can walk right under
Can't reach even on my tippy toes
No matter how far I've run in training for this marathon
I trip and fall, lose by a nose

Don't blame your daughter
that's just sentimental
and don't blame your mom
for all that you've done wrong
Your dad is not guilty
you came out a little faulty

I know there'll come a time again
When everything will fit right in
And I won't have to see your face
In strangers on the street

But I would rather feel the sting
Than never to have felt a thing
I'll always know you were the one
To rip me from the ground

Nights when the heat had gone out
We danced together alone
Cold turned our breath into clouds
We never said what we were dreaming of
But you turned me into somebody loved

I'm faking glory
Lick my lips toss my hair
And send a smile over
And the stories brand new
But I can take it from here
I'll find my own bravado

You’re like twenty-two girls in one
And none of them know what they’re runnin’ from
Was it just too far to fall?
For a little paper doll

Cut the cord and pull some strings
And make yourself some angel wings
And if those angel wings don’t fly
Someone’s gonna paint you another sky

Oh, Apathy
Don't hypnotize me
Once upon a time I thought I really stood for something
Something much greater than my love
If I just took the time to stop all of my talking
Maybe I'd remember what it was, what it was, what it was

And after you have dabbed the patch you'll grieve
And then proceed to scratch the varnish off
That newly added calmness
So as not to raise any alarms too soon

And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt beneath the dirt

The liar takes a lot less

When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep
Dreamed of para- para- paradise
Every time she closed her eyes

Life goes on
It gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear, a waterfall
In the night, the stormy night
She closed her eyes
In the night, the stormy night
Away she'd fly.

Set me free, leave me be.
I don't want to fall another moment
into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall,
just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.

You loved me 'cause I'm fragile.
When I thought that I was strong.
But you touch me for a little while
and all my fragile strength is gone.

Edited 2014-01-23 03:40 (UTC)

Are you going to age with grace?
Are you going to age without mistakes?
Are you going to age with grace,
Or only to wake and hide your face?

Those hardest to love need it most
I watched our bodies turn to ghosts
Such good friends, it has to end, it always does
That's the way life is
Do we take that risk?

And so it all boils down to this
We've got our aim but we might miss
We are too fragile just to guess
And I've been in this place before
Fine as we are but we want more
That's human nature at its best

Edited 2015-04-23 18:39 (UTC)

I'll see you in the future when we're older
and we are full of stories to be told.
Cross my heart and hope to die,
I'll see you with your laughter lines.

Edited 2014-02-28 20:06 (UTC)

I know you care
I know it is always been there
But there's trouble ahead, I can feel it
You are just saving yourself when you hide it

Yeah, I know you care
I see it in the way you stare
As if there was trouble ahead and you knew it
I'll be saving myself from the ruin
And I know you care

Edited 2015-04-02 05:23 (UTC)

You've held your head up
You've fought the fight
You bear the scars
You've done your time
Listen to me
You've been lonely, too long

Let me in the walls
You've built around
We can light a match
And burn them down
Let me hold your hand
And dance 'round and 'round the flames
In front of us
Dust to dust

Tough girl
In the fast lane
No time for love
No time for hate
No drama no time
For games
Tough girl
Whose soul aches

Edited 2015-04-24 18:26 (UTC)

You terrify me, cause you're a man, you're not a boy
You got some power, and I can't treat you like a toy
You're the road less travelled by a little girl
You disregard the mess while I try to control the world
Don't leave me, stay here and frighten me
Don't leave me, come now enlighten me

She's imperfect but she tries
She is good but she lies
She is hard on herself
She is broken and won't ask for help
She is messy but she's kind
She is lonely most of the time
She is all of this mixed up
And baked in a beautiful pie
She is gone but she used to be mine

𝑰'𝒎 𝒇𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒚.

teen idle ♔ marina and the diamonds

royals ♔ lorde

young and beautiful ♔ lana del rey

is this thing on ♔ pink

lola ♔ mika

distance ♔ christina perri

give me love ♔ ed sheeran

just give me a reason ♔ pink ft. nate ruess

hypocrates ♔ marina and the diamonds

hercules ♔ sara bareilles

devil's backbone ♔ the civil wars

breathe me ♔ sia

runaways ♔ the killers

beautiful disaster ♔ jon mclaughlin

flaws ♔ bastille

fantasy ♔ ms mr

the weight of living pt 1 ♔ bastille

cheerleader ♔ st vincent

sink or swim ♔ tyrone wells

blindness ♔ metric

merry go round ♔ kacey musgraves

fear and loathing ♔ marina & the diamonds

somebody that I used to know ♔ gotye ft. kimbra

lover I don't have to love ♔ bettie serveert

prisoner of hope ♔ allie moss

don't blame your daughter ♔ the cardigans

i'm through ♔ ingrid michaelson

somebody loves ♔ the weepies

bravado ♔ lorde

paper doll ♔ john mayer

apathy ♔ elizabeth & the catapult

dance little liar ♔ arctic monkeys

paradise ♔ coldplay

gravity ♔ sara bareilles

oblivion ♔ bastille

love like fools ♔ lauren aquilina

laughter lines ♔ bastille

i know you care ♔ ellie goulding

dust to dust ♔ the civil wars

big girls cry ♔ sia

fair game ♔ sia

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