Heartbreak Hotel (Editing)

Aj's Journal

A Song For Michael:

Without You (Don't Cry)

Verse 1:

The smell of your skin, it lingers on me now.

I can feel the touch of your hand caressing my face now, face now...

I need to find some shelter from the rain now, baby.

So I can find peace with myself and my life, my life.

Chorus:

I need you to know

I want you to know

That this path, I have to walk alone.

Don't take it personal

Please, don't cry tonight.

It's just me trying to straighten things out.

And I'm gonna miss you, there's no doubt about it.

But its time for me to patch up my life.

It's time for me to make peace with my life.

And I have to do it without you.

Don't cry,

don't cry, baby.

Verse Two:

I know that you're probably confused

With the choices I'm making, you probably think I'm a fool.

It's time for me to lay childish ways to rest now, baby.

' Cause if I stay I see a train wreck in the darkness for us.

So I'm taking baby steps...'til I'm full grown

and I'm sure I've made peace with myself.

(Chorus)

Verse Three:

Me, Myself, and I

We have some figuring out to do.

But this has nothing to do with you. No, no.

I will remember the perfect things about you!

Like the way we used to make love.

We'd go on until the sun meets us...

And If we ever meet eye to eye again. You can be my best friend, my lover, my shoulder. Forever and always...

-Liyah