Working Stiff

Working myself to the bone… more like working while I’m shaking in my bones; I don’t just hate going to work but I’m afraid to. Working Stiff… I couldn’t be one of those zombies even if I wanted to be but that doesn’t stop me from dying inside.

Working Stiff
Think
What a jiff

All I have to give
Stinks
Take a good whiff

That’s me trying to live
And yet I blink
My dreams are nixed

This is not it
Kool-Aid to drink
Then I’d be fixed

But I drift
The missing link
I just don’t fit

Read my lips
Better yet my ink
Working Stiff
What a jiff

Copyright © 2011, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.

No One Goes There

Nowhere to run or hide, to be stuck and afraid, or sometimes to even embrace this place in life, but who can truly do that? No One Goes There but how I have been reminded I was on my way so many years ago.

Where you gonna Turn
Which direction
Haven’t you learned?
Nothing but correction
Going round in circles

Left or right
By those that claim purple
Blinded by the light

Where you gonna Seek
Already there
What they say about the meek
Why should you care?
About a cure

The answer
It’s like cancer
Truth kills faster

Where you gonna Go
It’s a small world
Don’t you know?
So what if home were
Real

Monsters don’t confess
You know the deal
A life repossessed

Where you gonna Run
Can you even see?
In the setting sun
All you have is feet
And then you fall

Flat on your face
Do you bawl?
When the monsters taste

Where you gonna Hide
Nowhere
Because you’ll believe the lie
Are you scared?
You should be

Already lost
Not like me
Your soul the cost

Where you gonna go
Run or hide
No one knows
Or finds

No One Goes There

Copyright © 2011, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.

Oh Is Love Blind

Have you ever noticed that porn has the best lighting, well okay movies in general, I wonder where I got the idea that love has to be done in the dark; closed eyes for a kiss, lights off, nighttime, even blindfolds. Oh Is Love Blind; what do you see?

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQH7SGkOIPY

So you’re the kiss I’ll never see
I mean I think so
Why do I have to miss the show?
Maybe there will be others

just we turn off the lights and I have to believe
Now tell me, but then again… whoa
Who knew angels could fly so low
The wonders

When we pretend goodnight isn’t goodbye, there’s a possibility
But from your head down to your toes
and even the love below
Not even the lovers

dream of how I would love thee
“Love me like you do, although…”
there is always a catch but I won’t give you a blindfold
Be not so fearful, even when I tie you up in the covers

Just why is love so scary
Because that’s how you know
“Oh”
Is love blind or do you see another?

Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.

Inspired By: “Spencer” by Eclesi4stik, Johnny Jewel Ft. Saoirse Ronan “Tell Me”, Lykke Li “Possibility”, Outkast, “How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, A.C. Newman “Be Not So Fearful”, Nico & Vinz “That’s How You Know” feat. Kid Ink & Bebe Rexha, and “That’s How You Know” Enchanted (2007)

Magic Muggle

Love is… maybe it depends on the lover and even then; anyway it’s a world I don’t think I was born into and a world I might never know. “Magic Muggle”, truthfully only read one of the Harry Potter books, saw two of the movies

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl2YL2wvolU

God has his plans, Cupid his arrows
But how do I love you
without having my heart disappear
Anticipate quite the showcase
Like Roy and that tiger tussled

So under the covers I wait
Thinking a guy can pull a rabbit out of his hat… so
I might have a trick or two
Only would you volunteer?
Girls ain’t nothing but trouble

Just if I was invisible, as I often fear,
be not so fearful, don’t be afraid
Or do you wish to go
When all I offer is the truth
That’s why love is such a struggle

And to love me like you do
would be the real magic trick here
To have you stay with me, not try and escape
Bound by your panties, some ribbon, that’s how you know
ravishment is not so subtle

Yet love is my hope, not just for show
While love is a magic, true
it’s not powerful enough my dear
Couldn’t love me anyway
Some love for the loveless muggle

Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.

Inspired By: “Spencer” by Eclesi4stik, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince “Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble”, Clay Aiken “Invisible”, A.C. Newman “Be Not So Fearful”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Charlie Wilson “Magic”, Sam Smith “Stay With Me”, Enrique Iglesias “Escape”, Nico & Vinz – That’s How You Know feat. Kid Ink & Bebe Rexha, “That’s How You Know” Enchanted (2007), Mick Smiley “Magic”, Major Lazer ft. Ellie Goulding and Tarrus Riley “Powerful” and The Eels “Love of the Loveless”

A Head of Sleep

Lazy I know but there is no avoiding “her” in my dreams, everywhere else is a crap shoot, but a few steps, a leap, I can only outrun her going the other direction. “A Head of Sleep”, yeah maybe I should go to bed and sleep, just sleep.

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CNwIdOCF-0

And that’s why I don’t sleep
Be my starry eyed surprise
If I closed my eyes
it would only be to weep
for your beauty, I just can’t keep
A memory, a dream, no I
want you but I’m scared to try
one step, one leap

to Heaven, to the stars, to the moon
Would you love me like you do
or am I simply enjoying the view
You say “see you soon”
Jump ahead
Why am I in bed…

Alone again, maybe?

Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.

Inspired By: “Spencer” by Eclesi4stik, Oakenfold “Starry eyed surprise” James Blunt “I Want You”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Xbox One – E3 “Jump ahead”, and Gilbert O’Sullivan “Alone Again (Naturally)”

Going Somewhere Cupid

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT4OFEB8uyE

And if I had someplace to be
Buying a bouquet of flowers
that you’d never see
What… they’d die in an hour
Go to Rock Hard Mr. Jeweler
You’ll love me like you do
For what would be cooler…
maybe, I could give it to you
If I had the courage to

be going somewhere
Instead, run boy run… but why
Because I’m shy, no… I’m scared
Petrified, when you’re such a wonderful surprise
Only you’re not in my red room
You’re not mine, tragic
With “him” I’ll assume
Never mine to ravish
Me you’d never choose

But wouldn’t it be nice…
Suppose I might never know
Because this place is not quite paradise
To find you I might have to go
Holding my breath, when I slip you a note
I don’t want to run that fast
Don’t want to scare you… I hope
Then love has already passed
When the stars go blue

will you stay with me, or be right here waiting there
In your lingerie… someday
Well I won’t be no runaway
My heart’s not going anywhere

When you’re too close to care

Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.

Inspired By: Babydoll a.k.a. Emily Browning… Sucker Punch, “Rock Hard Mr. Jeweler” by Will Bradford Jr, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Woodkid “Run Boy Run”, Shawn Hlookoff “Wonderful Surprise”, The Beach Boys “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”, Bliss 66 “Not Quite Paradise”, The Corrs ft. Bono “When The Stars Go Blue”, Sam Smith “Stay With Me”, Richard Marx “Right Here Waiting”, Sugar Ray “Someday”, The National “Runaway” and a preview of “Beyond Ruin” by Kit Rocha

A Breathless Guest

She leaves me breathless, not with kisses or in the plethora of ways I imagine but with my own fear of wanting her and knowing in the end… A Breathless Guest, someday on my lips, in my life, in my bed but she really won’t be a guest; catch my breath.

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9kwy8BQnwc

And was I too busy running
Are Cupid’s arrows… endless?
Did you FINALLY say something?
It’s not like I would, I guess
You can tell everybody and it’s a little bit funny
That this year’s love is madness
“Love me like you do”, “love me, love me” I say nothing
Left breathless
Scared because I know what’s coming
What… you said yes?

Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.

Inspired By: Yuffie Kisaragi … Final Fantasy VII, A Great Big World Ft Christina Aguilera “Say Something”, P.M. Dawn “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss”, Aloe Blacc “The Man”, Glee Cast “Your Song (Glee Cast Version)” (Elton John), David Gray “This Year’s Love”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, and The Cardigans “Lovefool”

Try and Love the Air

She won’t know that I’m there… sounds a bit creepy but I mean she won’t notice the real me because the things I want don’t make for polite conversation or work when she actually wants me. Try and Love the Air… or is it better not to be shy?

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LhuxJTYiKA

Almost, maybe, not so shy
Shall I tell you this time?
How beautiful, how wonderful, hot, sexy, fine?
Yeah if you were mine
“Umm you know I…”

Well I’m still breathing *sigh*
I watch you walk away again today
You always take my breath away
Is that why I can’t ask you to stay
Dream lover, I close my eyes

Just thinking, someday I’m going to be that guy
“And”, you heard me… don’t say I love you
Zoning out… can I tell you the truth
Maybe you would love me like you do
Insanity but everyone says hi
Now, I guess I’ll have to try
Either I’ll be alone or my, my, my

Someday… “morning”, “hi”
“Do you want me to stop?”
“Oh my God!”
A bit from the Marquis de Sade
Silence sounds better that goodbye

So I keep it all locked up inside, the shy guy, the nice guy, my art of getting by

Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.

Inspired By: Princess Ashelia B’nargin Dalmasca… Final Fantasy XII, Lenny Kravitz “Again”, Bobby Darin “Dream Lover”, Simple Plan “I’d Do Anything”, Enemy At The Gates (2001), Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Young Beautiful in a Hurry ft. Fyfe Monroe “Everyone Says Hi”, (David Bowie Cover), Jimmy Cliff “Many Rivers To Cross”, Johnny Gill “My, My, My”, Sugar Ray “Someday”, “Morning Hi” by Will Bradford Jr, Marquis de Sade, and “The Art of Getting By” (2011)

Better off Faithful

If for every wish a star went out would you never wish again or I heard once a fairy keels over whenever someone says “I don’t believe in fairies”; I saw one of my crushes today and thought of the things I want from her. Better off Faithful

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmW…

For the man who would frighten the angel
If only for a few lost feathers
Or a moment of truth

Would you make her a beautiful stranger?
Real or even something better
Love me like you do

No my love, I shall remain one of the faithful
Than dare to dream of you and I together
With the words “I love you”

But how do you talk to an angel

Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.

Inspired By: Victoria… Real Doll, Sucker Punch (2011) “High Roller” (Deleted Scene), Madonna “Beautiful Stranger”, Audien Ft. Lady Antebellum “Something Better”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Sia “My Love”, and Jamie Walters and The Heights “How Do You Talk To An Angel”

Wallflower Eden

Holding up the wall, examining a potted plant, oh and isn’t that an interesting painting… what are excuses for not being on the dancefloor with a pretty girl. I’m supposed to be all grown up; then again I didn’t go to my prom either, Wallflower Eden.

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcj1lzq_5A

But when I grow up
She is my sun, my moon, my starlit sky
Only I will never fly

With Mario’s ambitions
Every bit of fire and passion
Just no Princess Peach attraction

For another girl I would fall
Figured I’d help Atlas out is all
Take a peek through the wonderwall

And know that Eve was made for Adam
Not for Eden
One day I’m leaving

On a jet plane, one step is not enough
To love me like you do, but my fault Miss
I didn’t have the balls
My love and him… I look at them

The Wallflower

Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.

Inspired By: Yuna… Final Fantasy X [X-2], “Willow” (1988), “Super Mario Brothers”, Ryan Adams “Wonderwall” (Oasis), John Denver “Leaving On A Jet Plane”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, and Sia “My Love”