purplesnake

Why stay?

Why stay?
So steadfast and stolid
and stoic and solid
for day after every day

Why stay?

Why stay?
Why not simply give in
and get on with living
cause everyone knows you tried
but somehow, something died
on the way.
So tell me why you stay.

Why stay?

Why stay?
Enduring and coping
and hurting and hoping
for day after fucking
day

Why stay?

Why stay?
Why not simply end it?
We'd all comprehend it
and most of the world would say
"He's better off that way,
to be free,

and maybe so is she.

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A promise a boy says forever.
A boy says whatever may come will come through
and who can know how;
when all I know now to be true,
is this promise that I made to you.

A question a boy wonders whether
that you'd stay
together the way
that they stay,
for year after year
for love or from fear.
Either way,
that's the promise that I made that day.

Here's what I say to the girl who was burning so brightly
like the light from Orion above.
And still I will search for her nightly,
if you see her please send her my love.
And the boy was a boy for all seasons!
That boy is long lost to me now
and the man has forgotten his reasons...

But the man still remembers his vow.

A promise a man says forever.
A man says I'll never regret or let you.
The promise I made to stay and I stay true.

Knowing one day we'd remember that joy,
you'd remember that girl,
I'd remember that boy.
Till we do,
the promise I made?
I'll make it brand new,
the promise that I made to you.