Why Are All the Songs on the Radio About You

I turn the knob on the radio

It betrays me with its words.

I love you, I miss you, I hate you

No matter which way, they're all about

You. 

They tell me to be strong

They tell me to be weak

But either way by the end of the song

You're all I can think about.

S**t.

You're all I can ever think about. 

I'm finding out just how flexible my back is

 As I play this game of limbo with you.

But every girl has her breaking point...

I love you, I miss you, I hate you

No matter which way they're all about 

You. 

You have this cookie cutter shape

Of some sort of friendship

That I'm supposed to wriggle myself into

While I show these kids a thing or two

About playing pretend.

As I pretend not to crave you.

I love you, I miss you, I hate you

No matter which way, they're all about 

You.

These songs that tell me to be strong

And tell me to be weak

They tell our story over and over and over. 

In every which way.

Happy endings. Sad endings.

'What could've been?' endings.

They're all about us.

Every song I hear

Every song I sing...

They're all about you. 

Reviews

[An owl on the moon]

This is so brilliantly instrospective, yet I can relate so well... those songs and sights that awaken memories of the one... dancing in the haunted hallways of the mind and heart, never too far away... Raising my glass to the perfection of your life's dreamed duet.

[Samuel Jack]

Can just Imagine you in the kitchen (don't ask me why) looking at the radio with a vague look in your eye, I've found that the radio can be an enemy or ally at times of strife or heartbreak. I love the live "f**k off and die endings" some real venom there lady! Cool poem

[Zachary_James]

This is full of raw emotion, i couldn't stop reading this.... I love this it is amazing.
Great poen

[The Analog Kid]

Stuff always comes flooding back to our memory,

[Danielle]

Such a lovely piece!

[Revolutionary]

great poem I like the cookie cutter shape you try to fit into and the way the songs tell you how to feel

[Lipstick_Lesbian]

This is absolutely brilliant. My favorite line:
"I'm finding out just how flexible
My back is, as I play this game of limbo
With you."
Excellent imagery here, and throughout the piece! I loved this. xx

[John Stussy]

Well written poem, heartache's a b***h indeed. Wish we could have memory wipes like computers, would make life a lot easier.

[Drifter]

I like this poem. It reminds me of my ex, how every song that came on after we broke up somehow reminded me of her. It says something of a poem that makes us think of these things. I'll have to check out your other stuff.

[koty bell]

wow incredible:D