2. "City of Cries"
It fades into the night, slips into my eyes All that I lose, and all that I might I don’t know what to do in this city of cries Living vicariously through the ghosts of the night So I buried my joy into hardening cement And I made into words all the tears I had wept Into seventy-seven pages of night long laments Describing a promise I’d never had kept Keep walking along as I try to forget I’m as fragile and see-through as glass Keep sulking alone to my life-long regrets I’m a red flag, a fool, and a mess But I couldn’t tell you, and I had to fake it Had to pretend it didn’t matter at all But inside I’m dying, and I couldn’t take it Had to revise and put up all these walls But now I’m alone, there’s nowhere to go No text on my phone, no message to close All sins to atone, just space to dig holes I’m fighting a memory of my only hope So I slip into the night, and I close my eyes And I hope to god someone reads what I write But it’s just one more cry in a city of cries Living vivaciously in a world full of lies