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sometimes I think
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sometimes I think
I could have lived in bliss
if only you'd left me
ignorant of this
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I left the room so that you wouldn't have to
would that be funny if it hadn't been me if it hadn't been you I don't know
why do the windows on your house have that same glow as your eyes do when you look at me real close I don't know
I wonder often if you would prefer for me to wander off and then never return would that be I don't know
why is that I can spend the whole day just looking at you would that be less lame if it weren't true I don't know
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I left the room so that you wouldn't have to
would that be funny if it hadn't been me if it hadn't been you
I don't know
I don't know why do the windows on your house have that same glow that your eyes do when you lean in real close I don't know
I don't know
should I ask you cause I hate not knowing should I ask you or would I wish that I hadn't should I ask you or am I better off should I ask you cause
I wonder often if you would prefer for me
to wander off and then never return
would that make you happy I don't know
I don't know why is it that I think that I could spend the whole day just looking at you would these lines be less lame if I didn't pretend that I thought they were true I don't know
I don't know
should I ask you cause I hate not knowing should I ask you or would I wish that I hadn't should I ask you or am I better off
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quietly
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you don't have to tell me just how much it hurts
please don't feel the need to illustrate just how you've got it worse
don't describe in detail the pain you're in
all your years of suffering
qualms and queries and thoughts and notions of
what you should be doing
I don't care
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you asked me once
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you asked me once what it was that I felt
if I were really happy with how things worked out
I didn't know then I didn't know then I didn't know then
but instead I told you a somewhat silly story about that
a thought that I'd maybe once had
a leaf suspended underwater
that I'd failed to grasp
every time my fingers tried to close around it
I only pushed it a little further away
and you laughed and you smiled
and we talked a little while
were you disappointed?
what did you what did you what did you
what did you hope I would say?
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stung
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would it have stung a little less if I didn't like your voice so much
would it have plunged quite so deep if I didn't desperately need to be cut
how much of it was you
how much of it was me
my hand on yours guiding the hilt deeper and deeper
into my core please be my keeper
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when did you
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when did you find the time to carve your name into my chest
did you know for sure or did you only guess
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that I wouldn't find it until now. that I'd be left wondering how. you managed to do this while I wasn't around? people are gonna think that I did this to myself. hasn't there got to be a tidier way to immortalize yourself?
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I didn't think I would mind
as much as you've shown me that I do
I hadn't yet realized
that you were broken too
did we always think so differently
am I really just misremembering
how can you look back and not see the same as me
I thought these were shared memories
now they're singed at the edges
the colours starting to run
a series of charcoal sketches
blurring into one
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