Warmer Days

The mailbox is cold and empty.
The wind blows the leaves by my feet.
I hope for a warm day to come my way,
Or at least a new old soul to meet.

Bad things happen to good people.
I'm sorry I happened to you.
When no one's to blame in a long losing game,
It's quite hard to not feel so blue.

I'm kicking the cans down the sidewalk.
The future seems alone and bleak.
Thinking positively just does so little for me,
Knowing another is who you will seek.

But the sun always shines in the morning.
A new day to roll over into.
And with family beside, I have nothing to hide,
Each step into the future is new.

The pain that we feel isn't easy.
Things just didn't work out our way.
But the new life that's to come is in the hands of the One,
Who guides us and creates each day.

Icarus! Icarus!

Growing so tired
To feel so left alone
Thinking I want escape
From sin I can't condone

They're repeating the past
It's their comforting drill
No change for one's other
Due to lack of self-will

So Icarus! Icarus!
Lend me your wings!
So they may take me away
From such earthly things
I'm terribly tired
Waiting here in the dark
So send me your wings
Before I'm torn apart.

Is there no one like me
In this conformist new world
Are they tucked scared in a corner
Like a scared, little girl

So I wonder in days like today
And during nights like these
If there is anyone else out there
Crying and begging "please"

So Icarus! Icarus!
Lend us your wings!
So I may use them to find
Those seeking same things
I will not fly us
Up close to the sun
But to some other world
Where wont come undone

Oh flier, I fall begging
I'm pleading my case
Oh angel, with your wings
Take me away from this place

This ground is no limit
To all the worlds I feel
Let me fly past the horizon
And let the wind take the wheel

Oh Icarus! Icarus!
Please lend me your wings!
So they may take me away
From such earthly things
I'm wickedly worn
Waiting with this as my plea
Swoop down from above
Take me to infinity.

We Were Superheroes

What was it like
To live out days like a child?
Why cant I remember
Those days when we ran wild?

Do you remember the days of donning capes and superpowers?
The enemies we fought
The cities we'd save
Hour after hour
Do you remember these days when we were dynamic duos?
Brother! Do you remember when-
When we were superheroes?

Running around aloud
Without shoes and without a care!
Soaring around in skies
Made in our minds with no need for air!

Do you remember the days when we were free?
We were invincible
We were powerful
We were whoever we wanted to be.
Do you remember our days of innocence no one else knows?
Brother! Do you remember when-
When we were superheroes?

Where are those days
That bring sighs into my chest?
One day we'll be back
In time when, maybe, life was at its best...

Bombshell Reprise

There's a hollowed out house
From a bombshell drop.
Shadows flashburnt to the walls
Sparse shelter offered atop.

A city left in vacant ruin
From a megaton blast.
A shockwave to swallow it up
Lives stolen away so fast.

A crater remains to see,
Residue still lingers in air
Along a faltering sense of safety
How could this have been fair?

A neighbor now stranger
Scavenge what can be found
All thoughts revolve in madness
This is no longer 'safe and sound'.

The decision to stop a country
So consequence falls here.
Leaving a city in aftershock and dust
For the whole world to fear.