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Purple Park
The pill had kicked in
The swaying trees looked like clubbers all around me
And the wind felt like a girl who never existed, running her fingers through my hair
I could never remember how I had got here
I never could
In my drunken loneliness I would find my way to the
Always breezy
Always cool
Always waiting
Purple park
I would just sit there
Alone
Looking up at the purple, starry sky
The same sky couples all across town were looking at too
But it didn't feel like the same one
Forget the sky!
I'd done it again
The space between my lips for a kiss
Had been filled with the neck of a bottle
There'd been a fight
Swearing and broken glass
And I was gone
Banished again
Exiled from happiness I didn't deserve
But craved so badly
"The sun never shines on me and it feels great!"
I lied to myself
But the park would always be here
Here for me
The willows and the conifers
The wind and the grass
How many times had I cried into a beer that wasn't there?
A beer I couldn't afford
And when I started looking at the dirt
I imagined it would look prettier from the other side
Somewhere to hide
It was then that I toughened up
I lit a cigarette
And I decided people die quicker from love than they do from hate
In my drunken state I would find my way to the
Always breezy
Always cool
Always there for me
Purple park
