| no mystery from which to steer
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| wide eyes blind
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| …sometime … me?
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| the color of blood
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| she left on the playground
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| justice and a fist
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| and paper sugary things
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| like smiles
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| in a handfull of teeth
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| ripped apart
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| … you know
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| it always terrified me
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| clothes?
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| kissing the pillow
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| doing it on the…
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| comes to.
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| to
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| come down
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| on
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| you
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| what its like to? |
| shadows?
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| edging, scraping at you
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| fear, heckling
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| moving around you
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| I always feared
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| the bloody ring
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| the broken flesh
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| the words without hearts
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| the human bodies like a predator
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| grace
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| and then it comes
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| huge
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| dragon’s ring
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| a dirty excuse
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| for an angel?
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| straw & black feathers
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| clacking across the floor
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| like change cracked from the guts
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| of the tooth fairy
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| …wings of birds?
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| broken flesh
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| it’s fingerprint is sliding under the pillow
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| lifts with its hands and
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| extracts the gift
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| to pocket a piece of skull
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| and checks to see if the chest moves
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| if i knock out every tooth of
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| everyone who that tried to break my body
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| and covered them up with a pillow at night
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| for monsters to take
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| then at dawn i’d be rich with pennies
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| and the blood left behind
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| Tron
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| the nights i slept
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| over at your house
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| you’d to anything for me
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| watch over me
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| protect me
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| watch me sleep
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| we’d sit in bed and read and read and read
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| and spill tea on the sheets
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| sometimes we’d read and run all night
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| when i was five and you were alive
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| all around the house
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| and smoke and get behind
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| i dream
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| i’m walking to where you lie
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| your hair
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| gone grey
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| silver
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| and raised off your face
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| the shades remain unchanged
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| i slowly went to the room and walked to the bed
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| to check your pulse
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| if you were still alive
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| and i’d spend the night
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| i knew you’d never leave me
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| never leave me behind
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| the smoke and the static and the light that came thru the shades was the same
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| the shadow and the static and the light that came thru the shades was the same
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| x2 more (variations on shadow/smoke/static/light)
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| the smoke and the static and the light that came thru shades was the same
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| the smoke and the static and the lights and the shadows that came thru
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| shades was the same (w/tara)
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| was the same as your skin
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| your mouth was open wide
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| but there was nothing left inside
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| the tv static rolled
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| grey gone cold and alone |