Thoughts Before Me

You gave me that little something. That little ray of hope. That little feeling that everything will be okay. You showed me that I was so much more than who I thought I was. I was someone in your eyes. You made me feel special. You made me FEEL. I found the most unexpected thing in the most unexpected person. I felt safe. I felt secure. I felt absolutely contented. You made everything so easy for me. Everything was right.

So maybe you didn't let me get to keep all of that.
At least you let me keep the most precious thing you ever gave me..
Letting me be myself.


I don't know what is going on with us. As much as I try to think about it, the answer just doesn't seem to exist. I do know this, I don't want to keep falling back on you. I want to move on. To not dwell on what we're doing anymore. I want us to focus on the present.
I don't want to lose myself in you anymore.

Perhaps I will tell you all of this one day. I just don't know when it will come.


Dashboard Confessionals- Vindicated
Hope dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption
Winding in and winding out
The shine of it has caught my eye

And roped me in
So mesmerized and I'm so hypnotized
And I am vindicated

{Chorus}
I am Vindicated
I am selfish
I am wrong
I am right
I swear I'm right
I swear I knew it all along

And I am flawed
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself

So clear
Like the diamond in your ring
Cut to mirror your intentions
Oversized and overwhelmed
The shine of it has caught my eye
And rendered me so isoloated
I'm so motivated
I am certain now that

{Chorus}

So turn
Up the corners of your lips
Part them and feel my finger tips
Trace the moment, fall forever
Defense is paper thin
Just one touch and I'd be in
Too deep now to ever swim against the current
So let me slip away (3x)
So let me slip against the current and let me slip away

{Chorus}

Slight hope
It dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption


For once, I want to be selfish, and get what I really want.