A Deer in the Woods Lyrics

By the time that I'm gone

And I ascend to the sun

Treat my memoirs like the Quran

And every song as a psalm, look

I heard love's a bed of roses

Or thorns

So I suppose its all a matter of perception

Deception that juxtaposes

Investment gone from impulses

Through overflowing emotion

Seen cheeks worn from erosion

Lord, she has a smile

Could melt a cynic to seldom saint

A pinnacle it's simple

Rips through rip tides when it rains

No restraints

Off the cuff and on the strength

Found myself but lost some days

You're the blue through clouds of gray

When you left to my dismay

Lost your empathetic rays

Your celestial nose

Those lips, cupid's bow

Amiss I suppose

If I ain't mention your soul

It's exuberant like my inner child

The sooner I could get you out my mind

Cause in time

I took the blinds from my eyes

I am divine

Your side is a home that I've known

But don't reside any longer

Felt weak and incomplete those weeks

It seemed to make me stronger

So I send my best regards

And the only thing I harbor is love

So could I give you what my mother deserved

The type of love she'd give out that was never returned

But she always kept on searching

She was never deterred

Just to wind up broken-hearted

As I sat and observed

An adolescent

Watched investment turn resentment

With a pension for retention

Inception of my regression

My dissension to depression

Incessant stressing and testing

I learned lessons through acceptance

My ascension to the heavens

From the lows I used to know

Between the shadows and the soul

Where our love begun to grow

We played our cards but had to fold

Strayed apart, out our control

Like, what's love if unrequited?

Or none from a fear a trying

Went from denying its existence

To residing in its prison

Which admitted felt like solace to a sinner

With a halo seeking

Seeking promise through a scripture

Or the fable of adonis and his goddess

What's arising like the flowers from his grave is a mixture

Of a sonnet with the calmness of wave

And a swimmer off the deep end

Way too shallow to be saved

Self-esteem won't let 'em scream

So they just paddle 'til they sink

And at their brink, there's not a ring

Just some tears and a bouquet