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Array ( [sid] => 136730 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Better On The Other Side [time] => 2007-08-14 14:49:13 [hometext] => isn't is always greener on the other side, or maybe if I were given more grass I'd be happier. no this doesn't have anything to to with drugs [bodytext] => These city wall confines
I just can’t stand them
They’re there all the time
And I can’t pretend

That they’re not holding me back
My future, my present, my past
They’re all here and I can’t let it go
They all hurt and I can’t let anyone know

I can’t pretend
These walls don’t affect me
I can’t pretend
I don’t have bigger dreams

I can’t see
Past this spray painted concrete
You just can’t see
What the other side means

I NEED to be over this wall
I was born on the wrong side
Without those opportunities I’m so small
Without that my spirit dies

You just can’t see
If I were over there
How happy I’d be
If I didn’t have to be scared
To be myself

On this side I’m a misfit
On the other: a free spirit
Free to do what I please
Well, the place meets my needs

The one’s I’ve been born with
So why can’t I cross?
Why wont you let me?
I know I’m not lost

Wont you let me go
I’d be better off you know

On the other side [comments] => 2 [counter] => 199 [topic] => 73 [informant] => SmileSkinDeep [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 4 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => abstract )
Better On The Other Side

Contributed by SmileSkinDeep on Tuesday, 14th August 2007 @ 02:49:13 PM in AEST
Topic: abstract



These city wall confines
I just can’t stand them
They’re there all the time
And I can’t pretend

That they’re not holding me back
My future, my present, my past
They’re all here and I can’t let it go
They all hurt and I can’t let anyone know

I can’t pretend
These walls don’t affect me
I can’t pretend
I don’t have bigger dreams

I can’t see
Past this spray painted concrete
You just can’t see
What the other side means

I NEED to be over this wall
I was born on the wrong side
Without those opportunities I’m so small
Without that my spirit dies

You just can’t see
If I were over there
How happy I’d be
If I didn’t have to be scared
To be myself

On this side I’m a misfit
On the other: a free spirit
Free to do what I please
Well, the place meets my needs

The one’s I’ve been born with
So why can’t I cross?
Why wont you let me?
I know I’m not lost

Wont you let me go
I’d be better off you know

On the other side




Copyright © SmileSkinDeep ... [ 2007-08-14 14:49:13]
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Re: Better On The Other Side (User Rating: 1 )
by unknown_utopia on Wednesday, 15th August 2007 @ 10:31:24 AM AEST
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ahh
thee elusive great escape
and
The need to be somewhere else
flows nicely on this one.


Re: Better On The Other Side (User Rating: 1 )
by forgotten_poet on Saturday, 25th August 2007 @ 07:08:44 PM AEST
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great flow in ths one man
good job




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