When you live a lie in refusal of sacrifice. When a hallow heart encompasses your whole. When no amount of talking can break through stone. When the sun no longer shines in peace with the shadow. When no one else can see or comprehend what's been irreparably broken. This is what hell on earth feels like. When everything looses it's value, as the pictures on the wall become memories of something that was once precious, unconditional and full of hope, a love too great for words. The genuine art of God forsaken. Once upon a time, there was only love. How quickly and carelessly such a love can be overturned. Yet, love is in fact the most fragile of things. The only piece that ever stood a chance of finishing God's great puzzle. She could not cut through.


I'd Rather we've met where Bridges Burned...miscommunication
Implicit assertion was nothing more but our balance designated
A thought usually forsaken, but old habits grew weary
A glint of infinity was welcoming to redeem me
Her norm of motion was effortless grace, adored above all
The Stray soared from the highest lows, restored by the call of dawn
Dissuaded by devious hearts...was tomorrow too long?
Dared to...venture far off into you...where I don't belong
No invasion of your sacred space, refused to see the stains
Wistful daydreams triggered by the scent of her name
Discovered through depths of someone else who once felt ignored
Whats worth needing? A hope in something is worth bleeding for
I'd Rather slip, take my chances than regret it forevermore
Faith is patience, I know the twinge of sadness in forgetful souls
And the fault of dreams...the most fragile of things
For you I believe, celebrate your smiles, smiling with you against the stained tomorrows

Nicole Pacent

(Chorus)
Oh, how was I to know
I was but a heart beat behind you, (Dared to...venture far off into you...where I don't belong...)
A heart beat behind you

I was only meant to know,
I was but a heart beat behind you, (Dared to...venture far off into you...where I don't belong...)
A heart beat behind you

This life only goes to show
I was but a heart beat behind you, (Dared to...venture far off into you...where I don't belong...)
A heart beat behind you

Remember, forever
I was once a heart beat beside you...(Dared to...venture far off into you...)

Is there redemption for the wrist-cutters? Pleading marks of a dark past yet conquered
Never mentioned, only companion to the deepest darkness
Stinging reminders of where I once wandered...
Stubbornly broke myself down to give you more, less is honest
Identical mishaps, different worlds, same psycho riffraff
Deju vu for old souls, dismiss one's pain to see the other grow
From fetal petals, into some personal ecstasy
Discipline, honor and respect, the truest components of your beauty
But the habits of hurt, that habitat at work in a sudden seizure
Senses blurred...perhaps the pills for a new procedure
Deprecated nature...in a lonely storm
Love letter revelation...intent to soothe and calm
& go beyond the expected responses of never, which is promised
& don't allow the incessant doubt trouble me any longer
Your name inserted in that special word
Behind fuzzy vibes, the veil of calmness while my thoughts were sill loud with noise


(Chorus) x
Oh, how was I to know
I was but a heart beat behind you, (Dared to...venture far off into you...where I don't belong...)
A heart beat behind you

I was only meant to know,
I was but a heart beat behind you, (Dared to...venture far off into you...where I don't belong...)
A heart beat behind you

This life only goes to show
I was but a heart beat behind you, (Dared to...venture far off into you...where I don't belong...)
A heart beat behind you

Remember, forever
I was once a heart beat beside you...(Dared to...venture far off into you...)

Is there redemption for the wrist-cutters? Chasing the winds, no answers
Unsettled by the smoldering love for another
Was I a fool to crave wondrous comfort, that gaze into unspoken wonders
There's no substitute, no rules to surrender to
No one else can think more of you
And I can't take back what was needed to be said
Distort and dwindle within, 'till its emptiness with no content
On the bed of purple flowers, see it all end, blood on the edge of no tomorrow
A sorrow much more than tears
Whats left to look at but laughter coated flashbacks and that voice that can ease my ears
I mourn still, pray for the stray to settle in that higher elsewhere
Purified by holy will...
No more what ifs and what could have beens
The joyous interactions and the journeys in mass transit, in the arms of need
'Till the tides of time washes me away and fades
Being my forever became a stranger again, a stranger again