Category Archives: My Lyrics

Love Ritual

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Sometimes I love you and sometimes I hate you it’s a thin line,

So I bite my tongue and my pride?

Yeah I swallow it, even when I’m right

Choosing my battles, it’s a constant inner fight

It’ll be alright in the end as long as we have each other,

there will always be another ready and willing

I’ve tried it and they don’t compare to what you’ve got me feeling

Shits getting kinda serious you used to be a hook and now you’re the Muse behind my lyrics

yeah and I wouldn’t stop it even if I could,

love is good specially when it hurts

kinda ironic how our fighting turns into something iconic

its become a ritual,

The outcome’s so good its becoming habitual

we always end up next to each other

I low key think the roughness gets you purposely all hot and bothered

over insignificant shit

fireworks and hair pulling and we forget why we were upset

Good things aren’t easy and we could be great

What do you say?

you and me against the world till the end.

Copyright (c) 2012 Sheilah Martinez

My Gift To You

Being You means that every day should be a celebration

Today is extra special because it’s the day you took your first breath and

You deserve all that is breathtakingly beautiful in the universe

If you let me, there is nothing in the world I won’t do to give it to you

But for now I’ll keep writing you these poetic verses

When a writer falls in love with you, you live forever

So I gift you immortality on your birthday

If my melodic sonnet shows you how amazing you are

My rhapsodic lyrics have served their purpose

I want the world to see you how I see you

May they one day feel what I feel whenever I am near you

Beyond handsome your whole being is beautiful, I see your worth

Not even close to what you deserve, just an homage to you on your day of birth.

Copyright (c) 2012 Sheilah Martinez

Not The Same

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They say that distance makes the heart grow fonder

Maybe we both needed to be just a bit farther

We both thought it would all be the same

But there were no butterflies when I saw your face

I could not explain this awkward detachedness

It was you but it was different

This wasn’t the same person I had been missing

Flashbacks of when your hugs made my heart skip a beat

You had not yet kissed me and I already couldn’t breath

No

Who are you and where is He?

Same face…

Same body….

But not the same heat

Could it be that you’re the same and it is I who has changed?

That as time went by my love for you was replaced?

Was it always a facade?

I keep searching, please help me find you

Is it that I am in love with Him?

The Him that you no longer are?

Is He the one that still holds my heart?

Maybe it’s because you left

And with absence love was replaced with resentment

How do I explain to you that I’m in love with the memory of you

But I just don’t love you

I feel closer to you when you’re gone

Loneliness compliments the sadness of my loss

The distance makes the idea of “us” a comfortable existence

As I continue to yearn for the “we” that is now missing.

Copyright (c) 2012 Sheilah Martinez

Trophy

I wanted him so

I wouldn’t let go

It wasn’t love

It wasn’t lust

I had to win

You weren’t going to take him from me

You played dirty

So I couldn’t play fair

I had time on my side

Always in his head even when I wasn’t there

You cried and I smiled

Thought it’d do you good to taste

the same pain for a while

I played karmas role

You deserved it for breaking up my happy home

Or so I hoped

Truth be told

I knew it was ending awhile ago

You wanted him so

You wouldn’t let go

It was love

It was lust

But I had to win

You weren’t going to take him from me

He’s alone

And you’re not in love

You try so hard

But it’s not the same

He’s the only one who made you feel that way

But you smile and it works for a while

And late nights he’s not sure if he should dial

Thinking you are in a better place

Your face is still the last thing he sees before bed

But

I wanted him so

I wouldn’t let go

It wasn’t love

It wasn’t lust

You didn’t take him from me

But it was with you that he was meant to be

3 Minutes

Beautiful

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of you

Sometimes I forget your name but never your face

The bodies change but the feeling is always the same

Not necessarily a Hollywood profile

Still haven’t found a star that shines brighter

Specially when you smile, damn J.Cole said it best

Your crooked smile is still my favorite

I was hoping you’d want to stick around for a while

I can’t offer you much but I guarantee none will take you higher

I’m not asking forever and I’m not asking for just one night

But if that was all we have let it be

Let’s make it memorable

I want to forever remember the scent of you

UNFINISHED –

Last Love Letter

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The Love Letter

The Love Letter (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Let me think carefully before I put this on ink

Gotta have some composure before I turn this new leaf

New beginning starts with me leaving

Can’t say I like the way this love story finished but we both know it’s best for me to go

You disagree but deep down your heart knows…

As you open up this letter

As you read my very last love letter

Smile turned cold

Not what you expected

We’ve been through this before

I can’t bear to see your face as I walk out the door

As you open up this letter

As you read my very last love letter

And the pages reach the floor

I hope time will soften the blow

Of my last love letter to you

Love letter…My last love letter

And with it I give the remains of us

I leave you and leave behind what once was

What we had

what we shared

Memories that we swore we’d always remember and now we try so hard to forget

Remnants of a future turned past

All that is left

Not even pictures can recreate

The feelings we shared when we built those moments that were meant to stay We strayed

We let our pride get it the way

As you open up this letter

As you read my very last love letter

Please don’t take it out on the next

Love is not always what you expected We’ve been through this before

And I’ll leave before love begets scorn

As you open up this letter

As you read my very last love letter

And the pages reach the floor

I hope time will soften the blow

Of my last love letter to you

Further down the pages and the paper gets wetter

Dry your tears

Think of all the laughs we lived

The late nights I held u while we’d sleep

It hurts now and in time you’ll see

Your place wasn’t next to me

I’ll miss you and want to return

Not because we belong together

But to recreate the feeling that no other love was better

Please accept my letter

My last love letter

And don’t stop reading until the very last letter reaches the end of the wet paper Tears falling down your face

The only thing I’ll ever regret is not being there to kiss your tears away

As you reach the final page

This is all that is left

No goodbyes

Just my love letter

My last love letter to you

©SHEILAHMARTINEZ2012

Take A Shot For Me

I’m the one, yeah I said it
I’m the one, don’t you forget it
The way you stunt, that’s me
The way you swag, that’s me
The way you compose and sing songs,
Did you forget? That’s me
The nostalgic feeling in your heart baby,
Yeah that’s me,
It’s me
The empty pit deep in your soul that’s me…
Can’t you see?

Yeah you’re wasted
And yeah you’re wasted
It’s useless, but keep trying to forget me with a replacement.
Don’t know why you’re pretending,
Fronting like your celebrating,
We both know I’m the reason that you’re always getting faded, cuz she ain’t me…
So take a shot for me.

Copyright (c) 2011 Sheilah Martinez

And We Say Goodbye

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And we say goodbye for the one hundred and
twentieth time,

Or so it seems

you and me just can’t seem to reconcile our differences.

Every time we make up and break up,

So repetitive

I made it into the chorus of my last song

It seems wrong to know each other for so long

Only to say goodbye so long

But sometimes things just don’t work out the way you want em to

I should know

look what happens everytime between me and you

Your out doing you and I’m here doing me too

It distracting cuz even then I’ve got you on my mind

Where’s the rewind button

I’d take it all back

If I only knew it would make you come Back to me

But your too stubborn

You remind me too much of me

We can’t Ever be wrong

And this is the outcome

You and me not together

when I just want us to build a happy home It’s too late

we crossed that line

All that’s left is to rewind

pause and replay our memories

Lingering thoughts and feelings about you holding me

And all the times we’d sing to random love songs together

The first time we made love to the songs I wrote for you Remember?

-unfinished

Copyright (c) 2011 Sheilah Martinez