| When you look real close you can see real good
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| You can see the imperfections
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| Now that we know the crooked and the straight
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| We can love in real completion
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| It’s a danger to love for tomorrow
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| It’s a danger to love for the better
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| But if it’s not there, it’s just not there
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| With the things that really matter
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| Taking it just the way that it is
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| I’m taking it at face value
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| Things can look better in the distance
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| But that not the way I want to love you
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| I want to love you that close
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| I want to love you that close
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| I want to love you that close
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| I’m taking it just the way that it is
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| Opinion’s will fly back and forth
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| And to disagree can be treason
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| But you have loved my stronger side
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| And I have loved the reasons
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| Takin' it just the way that it is
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| I’m takin' it at face value
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| Things can look better in the distance
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| But that’s not the way I want to love you
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| I’ve been drinking my coffee from a china cup
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| I’ve been feeling holy and better
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| In a borrowed apartment in Boston
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| I sat down and wrote you this love letter |