Retired Feelings

As the song goes… too young to fall in love but I’m too old to be this afraid, to be a virgin, or to be all alone in the world. Retired Feelings, surely the pieces of my heart must be dust by now and if not what am I, lonely man at 31 or a dirty perv

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

And not speaking of desire
Doesn’t that make me a liar?
A courageous man would inquire
Be creative or even inspired
Instead, I perspire
Until I’m much too tired
Yet you love me like you do, the night entire
As Cupid and the other gods conspire
Forever alone prior
To the day I expire
Can I be anymore shyer?
Dreaming of a girl on fire
Instead, I stand right beside her
My heart much too young to retire

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Inspired By: Babydoll a.k.a. Emily Browning… Sucker Punch, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, and “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins

Because Bed

Because that’s where she is, in my head, in my heart in my dreams and because everywhere else I know I can’t have her. “Because Bed” is safe but even standing right next to her, well if the girl only knew what I was thinking… baggy pants anyone?

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dkqwmnYppc

Beginning with her eyes, her smile
beckoning my heart, but the rest of me,
bedsheets should hide but really
beautiful still; my eyes close for awhile

Bewitched by an angel…
Bewildered and such
Beware this thing they call love
Betrays the most beautiful stranger

Beasts such as I
bearing my heart accountable
“Be my heroine!” shouted loud and powerful
Becoming my *sigh*

Belief… in love me like you do
Be heard
Be hers
Because know, she has no reason to

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Inspired By: Yuffie Kisaragi … Final Fantasy VII, Madonna “Beautiful Stranger”, Major Lazer ft. Ellie Goulding and Tarrus Riley “Powerful”, and Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack

Eye Admire

Why people kiss… keeps them from saying something stupid, gets them moving because you admire something and not move any closer; not counting a bulge in my pants. “Eye Admire” is keeping me from the conclusion of never wanting to see her again *sigh*

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlx0f3hNS_g

And I should try not to kiss you…
Or dream a little dream of me and you; just a few
songs like love me like you do
blasting on my car stereo
Maybe when we’re all alone
you’re be in my arms tomorrow; sun outside my window
Guess I’m not the best with secret keeping,
while I am barely breathing
and how my heart is beating
Open your eyes… it’s required
Look at her; my heart’s not a liar
How else can I be your secret admirer?

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Inspired By: Kaori Maejima… Shusaku, The Mamas And The Papas “Dream A Little Dream Of Me”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, and Duncan Sheik “Barely Breathing”

Lovely Steps of Gravity

Love is blind… maybe but maybe not; I see her and I’m drawn to her but when she is nowhere around my thoughts constantly seek her out. Lovely Steps of Gravity… so why am I looking at the ground instead of looking in her eyes?

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

Enjoying the view
Each and every step, carefully, carefully
The distance between you and me

Clarity
Only the ground is so hard to see
Love me like you do

isn’t that the dream?
My heart, my tears, all of me, falling for you
Or how I learned gravity

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Inspired By: Kaori Maejima… Shusaku, Cake “The Distance”, Lifehouse “You and Me”, Glee Cast “Clarity (Glee Cast Version)”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, and John Legend “All Of Me”

Piece in the Universe

The universe is made of such much but we are not gods; I would like to think we are more for making love and that takes two… with a few “accessories”. “Piece in the Universe”, but I want to be more and I’ll need more or should I pull myself together

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E9tuugnJy4

Three little words but only “you”…

And no other
As I pick a flower or two
Just you’re more elusive than a four leaf clover
But it’s not over
They’ll be more, tomorrow too
One more day and another
The birds and bees have reasons

Yet this wallflower cannot flatter
Does it even matter?
My confession

When you’re right here…and so great is my fear
that I no longer care for the man in the mirror
Skipped heart beats, but I’m breathing once again
Like humpty dumpty can I pretend?
Beautiful girl you draw nearer
Fall… you’re close than you appear
While I think of you “indecent”

Things I wish were true
That you will love me love me like you do
Make me your selection

Let me be your one and only
for a moment in your eyes
My heart you’ve already stolen
maybe broken
If only I was brave enough to try
To make the universe less lonely
Two pieces

Making three little words
Am I sure
You and me, quite a reflection

Of love…

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Inspired By: Kaori Maejima… Shusaku, Yazoo “Only You”, Daughtry “It’s Not Over”, Michael Jackson “Smooth Criminal”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Glee Cast “Let Me Love You (Glee Cast Version)” Mario, and Peter Gabriel “In Your Eyes”

Jazz Friend

And all that jazz… men, can be stupid or is it just me; wanting her, my love is from another time and that time has not happened yet. Jazz Friend, like love what do I know about it or her, an old man who wants a new world or girl…31 vs. 18 uh no

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

Why not make beautiful music together
in some old-timey fashion
Suppose you would have to be blind

to want a heart like mine
but the tune has been
playing, if anything for the pleasure
the hope, for the love of you
As though you would love me like you do

Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
my heart, a brand new passion
a song unheard of wherever

there is red, red wine and not enough aspirin
And thirteen years of never going to happen

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Inspired By: Kaori Maejima… Shusaku, The Isley Brothers “For the Love of You”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Seals and Crofts “Summer Breeze” and UB40 “Red Red Wine”

Building Headboards… Harder, Higher

After you break a heart I think everything else gets easier… I wouldn’t know, I’ve never broken any girl’s heart before and of the girls that have broken my heart, well they were not just girls I suppose. Building Headboards… Harder, Higher

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

Wings, a halo, how far
As I see the stars in your eyes
The words you hold like cerulean skies
Because love is way up there; how bizarre
I ask forgiveness, not permission… oh my lord

To be a villain, why not the hero
How else are heroines made?
My love, dauntless, girl on fire, be not afraid
For you, I’d go from zero to hero, but I’m just a Negro
Looking at the girl I adore

Just wondering what makes my friend, my lover, my passion, my sin?
And do you love me, or would you love me again
Zero chance; no angel you’d fly out the door
Must it always be heartbreak, one or quite a few?
If only you would love me like you do
No, I’m not the one you’d take your cape off for
Every girl, deserves a man that can break headboards

But for you, for love, I would do even more…

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Inspired By: Victoria… Real Doll, OMC “How Bizarre”, Regina Spektor “Hero”, Chad Kroeger Ft. Josey Scott “Hero”, Enrique Iglesias “Hero”, Sia “My Love”, “Divergent” by Veronica Roth, “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, “Article 5” Kristen Simmons, Hercules (1999) “Zero To Hero”, The Contours “Do You Love Me”, John Newman “Love Me Again”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack and “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)”

How Cotton Was Forgotten

People are just too much to deal with for me sometimes but a person, one beautiful woman, I’d want to show her the world; on the other hand why would I want to leave my bed? If I found love, I’d be worried about losing her “How Cotton Was Forgotten”

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YD02GiRMA4

What about a smaller snooze button
Only I reach for nothing

You’ve gotten nothing to wear
And I really don’t care
to look in the bedroom closet; maybe I’m rotten
but I found your panties
A dystopian fantasy

where the spaces between you AND me
well they cease to be
Causes…
Three little words or a few
Love me like you do
In lace, silk, and cotton
My atom bomb baby

Because here and now
Won’t you stay with me, like I’m the only man in town?
Or has my heart too been forgotten

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Inspired By: Elly Tran Ha… Elly Kim Hong, Building 429 “Space In Between Us”, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Five Stars “Atom Bomb Baby” (1957) Cold War Classics (Atomic Platters), Luther Vandross “Here and Now”, Sam Smith “Stay With Me” and Bill Haley and His Comets “Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town)” (1954) Cold War Classics (Atomic Platters)

Happily… Ever… Whatever

So what’s stopping me… a few “fetishes”, a need for the intimacy, all of womankind, who knows really; okay so I could be a better person I suppose. “Happily… Ever… Whatever” that would be too much especially for a “first” just the opportunity…

See Me Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi0cV2mNLr8

Oh God was it ever

The lace and the feathers
Not much for leather… are you?
And a thank you letter

Because it must be quite the effort
To love me like you do
Bu why can’t I remember

My love, return to sender
You and me… a dream or two, a few
Happily… ever… whatever

Something better than “I love you”… wish I could let her
Or the answer wasn’t never

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

Inspired By: Elly Tran Ha… Elly Kim Hong, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Sia “My Love”, Lifehouse “You and Me”, and Audien ft. Lady Antebellum “Something Better”

Cupid’s Home Improvement

If a man wants an angel he must create a Heaven for her to live in… but who needs angels in Heaven? Now I don’t need saving but if my angel is on the way anyway I can at least try to make her comfortable… afterwards Cupid’s Home Improvement

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

There’s a sale on bedsheets
A chill off the night air
or maybe I’m building a tent there
I could fly like a superhero
but I know
perhaps I should make peace
That they won’t be wrapped around you
After you… love me like you do
Only the conclusion…

Is another cold shower
Trip to Lowe’s, Home Depot…
where Christian Grey shops… I don’t know
Hell, are you really that hot
Think about you a lot
Louder and louder
The neighbors in their confusion

Knocking down my door
Doorbell warps
What are the balls and chains for?
Might think I’m insane
If I said I was building “The Red Room of Pain”
For who… don’t know anymore
Love is blind but where is Cupid

When we got this king size to ourselves
A financial mistake
Just hope it doesn’t break
While we Marvin Gaye and get it on
Because who has time to yawn
with Kama Sutra show and tell
Might need some sexual healing
Really
After all the Home Improvement

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

Inspired By: Yuna… Final Fantasy X [X-2], Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, “The Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James, Charlie Puth Ft. Meghan Trainor “Marvin Gaye” Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On”, “Sexual Healing”, and “The Kama Sutra” by Mallanaga Vatsyayana