Punk Girls Don’t Live Forever

She’s a bottle rocket, shaken never stirred

Up until the sunrise, attitude undeterred

And if the radio don’t play her song

She won’t have to sing along

Nevertheless I know

I’ll never have to try

It’s not my song you want to sing

It’s not my words you need to know

Nevermind the highs and the lows

Or goodbyes and I’ll-never-knows

All the melodies she holds

And all the miles she has to show

Left unspoken, understood, in the moment never heard 

It would never change a thing inside

And if the words don’t come to life

Blame the poets who never tried

No matter how much I try

I’ll never see past those eyes

Maybe the words will never flow 

They always seem to come and go

Curse the lines I never should have wrote 

Or the ones I’ll never know

The key I never wanted, locked inside the heart I never stole 

Where I know I’ll never reach

Behind glistening gates of gold

Where the dust will never settle

With these answers that I seek 

And the feelings that I lack 

The love that never takes what it gives back

I wonder if she’ll notice these words

From a voice that only sings sad songs 

Nevermind these days, they won’t always be the same

And a week from now when I’m out of town, lost in the sounds of today

When the silence that I loved to hate won’t even show its face

Farewell to that love of mine

I hope she won’t mind that I didn’t stay