| JAMIE
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| Hey, kid — good morning —
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| You look like an angel.
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| I don’t remember when we fell asleep.
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| We should get up, kid —
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| Cathy is waiting…
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| Look at us, lying here,
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| Dreaming, pretending.
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| I made a promise and I took a vow.
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| I wrote a story,
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| And we changed the ending —
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| Cathy, just look at me now!
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| Hold on, facts are facts —
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| Just relax, lay low.
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| All right, the panic recedes:
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| Nobody needs to know.
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| Put on my armor —
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| I’m off to Ohio.
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| Back into battle till I don’t know when.
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| Swearing to her that I Never was with you,
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| And praying I’ll hold you again.
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| Hold on, clip these wings —
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| Things get out of hand.
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| All right, it’s over, it’s done —
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| No one will understand.
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| No one will understand…
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| We build a treehouse,
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| I keep it from shaking —
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| Little more glue ev’ry time that it breaks.
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| Perfectly balanced,
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| And then I start making
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| Conscious, deliberate mistakes.
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| All that I ask for
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| Is one little corner —
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| One private room at the back of my heart.
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| Tell her I found one,
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| She sends out battalions
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| To claim it and blow it apart.
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| I grip and she grips,
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| And faster we’re sliding.
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| Sliding and spilling, and what can I do?
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| Come back to bed, kid —
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| Take me inside you —
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| I promise I won’t lie to you.
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| Hold on, don’t cry yet —
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| I won’t let you go.
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| All right — the panic recedes;
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| All right — everyone bleeds;
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| All right — I get what I need,
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| And nobody needs
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| To know.
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| Nobody needs to know…
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| And since I have to be in love with someone,
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| Since I need to be in love with someone,
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| Maybe I could be in love with someone
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| Like you… |