Excerpt: It's Only Love

Chapters So Far:

Staring at Chapter One
'Here's a long evasive story of failed hopes and glories, old chandeliers and scratched up 45's'

Growing Gains
'I’m no baby, get back from my door, I’m sweet as sugar yeah I know, I know how it goes'

Dreams and Wishing Machines
'You come at me with villainy, in every sense its irony because the very act of jealousy has sealed yourself to slavery'

Picture Perfect
'Hotter than you’ve ever seen, everywhere and in between. I’m your ten ticket thrill ride, don’t you wanna come inside?'

Expectations
'You're the best kept secret rolling off my tongue, some say that you're as easy as they come, and I say "what a way for the ice to break"'

C-Harlot-te
'I dance with the devil and drink with the demons that’ll sleep with death and fell short of breath. When you wake up hungover you wish you were sober'

Next Boy Door
'You keep giving me looks when you come my way, the way you're shaking me up, It's like an earthquake. You keep giving me looks that I can't escape, you make my pulse race'

One Point Down, Again
'Ah, She's an eight ball, She's a rolling faster than a white wall, She's got an avalanche packed into a snowball, She's a losing all the links, She's like a stone wall, She's loaded up'

Daisy Chains
'I hear the bells, they are like emeralds, and glints in the night, commas and ampersands, your moony face so inaccessible, your inner mind so inexpressible.'

Adapt To Life
'It's shadowed and dark and now every time you speak you're just lying through your teeth.'

Sand and Stairs
'City lights, like open eyes, when darkness falls, then we will shine. Tonight our world will come to life, let sleeping angels lie'

Friends For Never
'You never cared to hear the other side so why would you care to keep this thing alive? You paint me into the memory of all your pain but I will not be drawn into the past again'

Truth or Dear
'The atom will implode, the fragile kingdom fall, the tremor becomes a quake and there’s a body in the lake.'

Coloured Markers Black
'Now I do as I please, and I lie through my teeth, someone might get hurt, but it won’t be me, should probably feel cheap, but I just feel free and a little bit empty.'

Invisible Wings and Broken Things
'Now that I know that I’m breaking to pieces, I'll pull out my hear and I’ll feed it to anyone.'

Run Run Runway
'She’s taking off her clothes again says “let the whole world see”, She’s cutting off her hair again says, “this is all of me”.'

Chasing Buildings
'Here's the countdown, 3, 2, 1, now fall in my arms now, they can change the locks don't let them change your mind, lace up your shoes, here's how we do, run baby run.'

Camera Shy
'I could recite you well, I’d written every line... but you strayed far from my flawless script on which I’d spent a lifetime.'

Secrets
'There is a secret that we keep, I won’t sleep if you won’t sleep, because tonight might be the last chance we'll be given, we are compelled to do what we must do, we are compelled to do what we have been forbidden.'

Petals, Promises and Pain
"I am covered in skin. No one gets to come in. Pull me out from inside. I am folded and unfolded and unfolding."

Catching Flowers
'You’re dark without the light, you are a flame without the fire, and you love tonight, but you are nobody.'

Even Lifesavers Dissolve in Water
'Now I'm mute, despite myself, All of them are gone, The silence overtakes me, The idle words forsake me and I am left to face me.'

Losing the Matching Game
'I’ve been jumping off the tops of buildings for the thrill of the fall, forgetting sound advice and any thought of consequence.'

Sellotape Heart
'Pardon, shadow, hold on tight to your darkened key. Little shadow, little shadow, to the night, will you follow me?'

Close the Book, Life isn't Over
'And it starts... sometime around midnight or at least that's when you lose yourself for a minute or two.'