Time:
Adam Cooper (2002)

I know you can't wait
and don't expect you to
time is getting late
was what we had true?
Time will tell
and time will prove
things are well
but I'm scared to lose

time rolls on
and we are forced to
time rolls on
and we must realize
life won't stop

Nothing Left to Show:
Adam Cooper (Q1 - 2002)

I have been rollin all around this life
material to show but not a loving wife
and the kids I imagined can't be found
my heart fills with tears and drowns

All I want is love and a good reason
to want to make it to another season
but all I can do is wish to pass on
but until it is time I am not done

I walk through these days
no hopes, reasons, or ways
but the walk must go on
from the world I can't run

Here With Me:
Adam Cooper (2001)

Letting Go:
Adam Cooper (2002)

I know I must let go
so that we both know
what is right...
So hard to watch you go
but I know it must be so
for my soul...

My heart may wilt and fold
my blood may go so cold
Its no matter....
Explore your whole new world
enjoy your time now, girl.
I will miss you...

Release the one
I always held
so dear...
and wish the best
for all the rest
of your journey...

in time we may regret
all that we have
forsaken...
until that day comes
we will journey on
to oblivion...

All I ask of you
please don't ever
forget me
please don't....
please, please don't
forget me

Won't Give In:
Adam Cooper (2002)

Have you seen in my eyes?
into the depths of my life?
Do you know all I've seen?
or even what it means?
My eyes will reveal me
and show you how I feel
I have seen the wonders
and have felt my blunders
No one to blame but who I am
I'm the one that wears me thin

Don't want your sorrow
Can't stand your sympathy
I'll still be here tomorrow
to continue this eternity
because when you end it
you give in
and when you give in
they win

I am my biggeest downfall
I am the one who enthralls
all of those encompassing
with my self-harassing
The mirror is my critic
and my mind is a cynic
I will not give in
I will not let it end

Don't want your sorrow
Can't stand your sympathy
I'll still be here tomorrow
to continue this eternity
because when you end it
you give in
and when you give in
they win

Fear, Happy:
Adam Cooper (2001-2002)

I ran and kept running
from happiness
and its complications

scared of the smiles
and their wonders

Hid away..
from it all

Enjoying all the
security
of sadness

you can't go lower
than the saddest
form of feeling

Life is so scary
and I fear it
more than dying

Perhaps I'm weak
and can't take it
Perhaps I'm truth
and I can't fake it!!

Dream:
Adam Cooper (2002)

Sleep the sleep of Gods
Dream the unspoken thoughts
Feel all that is not felt
Free all that is not free
In this self-containing dream
The sun shines, and smiles beam
Where everything feels right
and all your hopes are bright
nothing can cause a break up
until you finally wake up

Your Decision:
Adam Cooper (2002)

I have been all around
spreading the words
I cannot stand the sound
of her useless lord
I have no faith in fate
just a way to avoid
all your trials of late
fate fills your void

why can't you decide
what you want from life
then maybe you won't hide
from all you strife
confront your troubles
don't push them aside
before all their trouble
gives you a surprise

Setting Sun:
Adam Cooper (2002)

The chains have broken
and the heart bleeds
all the words unspoken
are those they need
gone is the setting sun
that kept them here
now their time is gone
but not their fear

venturing on, alone
forgetting all, alone
living this life, alone

cast from their fantasy
they now see fact
no longer truth's mockery
but now defining acts
of all the actuality of love
not what they had
But the great view from above
is still so sad

venturing on, alone
forgetting all, alone
living this life, alone
throwing it all away, alone
throwing it all away

Playing His Part
Adam Cooper (2002)

Watch the man walking up the drive
walks along but is he alive?
his expressionless face says no
tells stories of nowhere to go.
he has journeyed alone so long
knows it not right, but its not wrong
he let life slip away from him
let it fall in bottles of sin.

his eyes are empty
just like his sad heart
in this life he's simply
just playing a part

been so long since he has been here
and now he still fills with this fear
this is a place of laughs, aches, cries
now the blur of tears in his eyes
skewing his sight, distorting mind
is this what he returned to find?
memories of all his lost years,
and remnants of all his shed tears?

his eyes are so empty
just like his sad heart
in this life he's simply
just playing his part

every object carries weight
every sob closer to fate
he knows nothing and feels the same
all he hears, death calls out his name

I Want:
Adam Cooper (2002E)

I want to run away,
want to run away,
from this thing I call me

I want to destroy,
want to destroy,
everything I fucking see

I want to feel again,
want to feel again,
the ways I used to be

I want to smother,
want to smother,
the world in my tears

I want to see you,
want to see you,
fuck with me again

I want to scare you,
want to scare you,
far away from here

I want you to feel
want you to feel
all you've done to me

I want you to fear,
want you to fear,
all that I could do to you.

I want to smother,
want to smother,
the world in my tears
I want to smother
want to smother
want to smother, smother, smother
I want to smother the world in my tears

untitled:
Adam Cooper (2001)

Bring it to me,
Come together,
to break my heart.
Can you now see
rainy weather
tearing me apart?

Crying these tears
out my eyes
that are so tired
fleeing my fears
will be nice.
why are you wired?

I fell from grace
to the hell
that you call life.
Slapped in my face
say oh well
never needed a wife.

do you like the feel of it?
do you like to feel like shit?
do you like the feel of it?
then why make me feel like shit?

Now I have the disease
all of you need
just come get it
it will make you weeze,
beg to be freed
only if you let it

buy all your tickets
at the booth
don't miss your ride
it is so splendid
to hear truth,
even if you cried.

I am through worrying
where you are.
cause, you are gone.
people now scurrying
oh so far
my time here is done.

Run:
Adam Cooper (2002)

the golden glow
attracts them all
not where you go
it's who you call
the night love song
like the moonlight
won't ever last long,
won't ever be right

try and try again
to run, run away
to escape your sin
with you it will stay
turn back and forget
everything you did
someday you'll regret
everything you hid

untitled:
Adam Cooper (1998)

have you ever watched when, someone lost their soul
lost their heart, lost their mind, lost sight of the goal?
Can you fathom the agony that haunts them now
not wanting to go on, not even knowing how?
Would you offer your hand, or offer an embrace?
Could you put a smile upon their sad frowning face?

Calendar of Cruelty:
Adam Cooper (2002)

calendar counts my days
and all of my lost ways
mark out days with an X
loneliness is all I expect
Black lines represent me
darkened state for all to see
x's are days gone by
Days I never made a try
Eight pages now filled black
months that never come back
days of worry and sin
days won't come back again
I have seen the days go
never wanted to know
how they'd go, what they do,
where they would take me to

The calendar stares at me
eight months that have turned black
time to let go, set me free
those eight months won't come back
I threw away the world
for a heartbreaking girl
time to forget the past
and make my future last

Goodbye, July, Goodbye:
Adam Cooper (2002)

Goodbye, July, Goodbye
miss fireworks in your sky
but won't miss how I cry
or the untruths and lie

Farewell, July, Farewell
sometimes seemed that you were hell
pulled through sweltering heat
and all the month's deceit

Take care, July, Take care.
Your contents I won't share
You left me so vacant
let soak in my lament

I say,
"Goodbye, July, Goodbye,
wish you hadn't made me cry
but now you've past, again
see you in a year, of sin"