Iris, by Sleeping with Sirens

Iris

The Spring and the Fall, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Spring and the Fall

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

1          In the spring of the year, in the spring of the year,

2          I walked the road beside my dear.

3          The trees were black where the bark was wet.

4          I see them yet, in the spring of the year.

5          He broke me a bough of the blossoming peach

6          That was out of the way and hard to reach.

7          In the fall of the year, in the fall of the year,

8          I walked the road beside my dear.

9          The rooks went up with a raucous trill.

10        I hear them still, in the fall of the year.

11        He laughed at all I dared to praise,

12        And broke my heart, in little ways

13        Year be springing or year be falling,

14        The bark will drip and the birds be calling.

15        There’s much that’s fine to see and hear

16        In the spring of a year, in the fall of a year.

17        ‘Tis not love’s going hurts my days,

18        But that it went in little ways

Radioactive, by Imagine Dragons

Radioactive

Velvet Shoes, by Elinor Wylie

Velvet Shoes

-Elinor Wylie

Let us walk in the white snow

In a soundless space;

With footsteps quiet and slow,

At a tranquil pace,

Under veils of white lace.

I shall go shod in silk,

And you in wool,

White as a white cow’s milk,

More beautiful

Than the breast of a gull.

We shall walk through the still town

In a windless peace;

We shall step upon white down,

Upon silver fleece,

Upon softer than these.

We shall walk in velvet shoes:

Wherever we go

Silence will fall like dews

On white silence below

We shall walk in the snow

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The Price of a Mile, by Sabaton

The Price of a Mile

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