Month: May 2021

Presenting – the latest in Reputation – Strangers

Had to stay at home, away from the dangers,
Now we meet again, and we just feel like strangers,

Is it just me, or does this feel forced?
Like this game is something into which we’ve been coerced,

Because it’s 2 years later, we’ve never been better,
But why do I feel like I must be perfect, right down to the letter,

We were closer than close,
Now this just feels like remorse,

All my friends say I’m in denial,
But it’s a wedding ring turned ending, no walking down the aisle,

Everyone acts like they know how it feels,
The truth is – none of them are keeping it real,

People think the opposite of love is hatred, but it isn’t,
Because the absence of love, is indifference,

And now I’m indifferent to you, less than strangers,
Now, we both now, we were never ever gonna be free from the dangers,

And we’re less than strangers, no kindness to spare,
Because what we had was a love oh too rare,

And stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate,
Incurable in each, the wounds they make,

And now I can feel the rage flowing through my body, through my veins,
But I want you to know, I prayed it was you at my door in the rain,

Bu it’s a wedding ring turned ending and I’ve got no forgiveness,
For the one who broke my heart and left me helpless,

And you may think this is an apology, forgive and forget,
But I was never your hopeful, just a memory to regret,

Don’t need your hatred, Don’t need your love, Don’t need anything at all,
You fell from the pedestal, but I’m done breaking your fall,

And now this is goodbye, because I’ve never been better,
Don’t need to follow behind, Because I’m a trendsetter.
ANVI TUTEJA

-with you till the end of the line, pal-

Presenting, the first in Reputation –
Queen of Nowhere

“The universe played a cosmic joke on me – and I won’t ever be the same,
I was just a useful tool, just a pawn in your chess game,

I’m not buying what you’re selling,
Not interested in that stuff you’re fencing,

You’re painting a picture, but running out of paint,
Never said I was perfect, Never said I was a saint,

And I was a good girl – kept all my money in the people’s bank,
But the bank robbed the people, so the people robbed the bank,

I know what’s what now, it’s all holed up in a big Swiss vault,
But you don’t know what you lost, I was faithful to a fault,

More than a tool in your negotiation, I was worth so much more,
You shouldn’t have made me leave when I was standing at your door,

Now I’m the Queen of Nowhere; Yes, I’m royalty,
Don’t need the false promises now, of you and I, you and me,

Maybe in another life time, I could’ve forgiven you,
But life’s too short now to think of what ifs too,

Now I’m sitting on my throne, in my palace of broken hearts,
Thanks, but we’re really so much better apart,

Yes, I’m the Queen of Nowhere, Smoke and Mirrors,
Finally alone, seeing myself all that much clearer,

At the ends of the Earth, running for all of time,
Because everything I once knew, is finally mine.”
ANVI TUTEJA

-with you till the end of the line, pal-