Page 10 of In the Shadows

Please don’t turn and walk away

Our love was never meant to stray

Chorus:

Please tell me I haven’t gone and fucked things up

When I should have shut the hell up

There’s no need to reconsider what we have

Although I know I’ve treated you bad

Took your love for granted, once again

But I swear that has come to an end

Please, I beg of you

Don’t say our love isn’t real

What’s mine is yours and that includes my heart

My life is meaningless

Without you to share it with

Without you by my side

Please don’t say goodbye

I’ve been cut down, beat down and left a mess

But nothing ever hurt as much

As losing your loving touch

Please don’t go away, just tell me you’ll stay

I swear, I’ll never give you reason to doubt us, again

Fuck.My hands were shaking, his lyrics hit me like a punch to the gut. My need to touch him, to hold him, overpowered me. I cupped his face in my hands before taking his lips in mine. Holding them in place, not wanting to release them. When we parted, I put my forehead to his, whispering his name, “Joey.”

My words were gone. The heartache I felt in his lyrics wrecked me. This song, these words he’d written straight from his heart, changed me. Changed my perception of him, of us. These words will never be forgotten.

Joey rubbed his hand up and down my arm, soothingly. “Do you like it? I can’t tell, you aren’t saying anything and now I don’t know what to think.”

He bit down on his bottom lip, I reached up, freeing it with my thumb and kissed him again. “Fuck, babe, these lyrics really hit home. It’s hard to explain, but I feel them like, deep down in my soul.”

“But to keep it off the sappy side,” Joey said, “I was leaning toward heavy bass and going screamo on a couple of the lines.”

“Ha-ha, well we should be able to pull that off. Show me what else you’ve got.” He broke into the song, screamingI knewin the opening line as well asSave Me From Myself. The further he got into the song, the more I could visualize the music to go along with it. I was glad to have my songwriting partner back, I’d missed him during his dark phase.Fucking Lucas,that bastard better never show his face again.

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