| Well I’ve changed except my heart still beats too fast and my lungs still
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| collapse and my legs still shake.
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| I once thought love was real when we sat atop that hill and looked at cars
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| below.
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| We used to grow.
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| You kissed me on the forehead and told me that you’d never let go.
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| You told me that you’d love me until the end.
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| Which begs the question, are we now dead?
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| The person I thought I knew must be the person I once trusted until my bones
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| rusted over in the snow.
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| We used to grow like the tallest tree in my background I used to know.
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| Well happiness and joy and bliss, how it all disappeared so quick.
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| So here’s to life and here’s to love.
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| I’ve said it before, that I fade with the setting sun.
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| My ears are still ringing from the sound of your broken heart,
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| beating faster than thought, caught in your stare, so encompassing.
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| All resolve is lost as words fall from your lips,
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| my trembling fingertips held out in question.
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| So shake hands with regret, set to slip away.
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| Your eyes crossing, rivers flowing under your pale feet.
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| As the moments count down to flames,
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| meet and greet death,
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| he wears a cloak of your hopes and dreams,
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| quenched like the raging fire they were once.
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| You’re the breath he never found;
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| you are the closed eyes peacefully resting while those around you are torn to
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| pieces.
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| You’re the smoke I pull to escape from thought of you.
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| No touch, no shadow cast into mind,
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| your hand fervidly held at your side as memories of you flow through mine
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| an empty space more lonesome for what it has lost.
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| You’re the sunset smile thundering out of a careless moment,
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| you’re the tightly closed fingers holding in a breath.
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| If you would stay here with me, one more minute,
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| I would steal the world. |