Rootje
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you
you
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are the everything
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causing me to be
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broken
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empty
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lifeless
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you
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did it
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it is all /
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space
you say you
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need space;
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but you are
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my space.
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you are all the stars
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in my night sky,
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the
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Contradictions
You tell me
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I’m not that skinny
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My BMI tells me
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I’m way too skinny
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You tell me
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My waist is
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i never promised you a rose garden.
you told me
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the roses in my garden
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weren't red enough,
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so i changed them.
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then
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you told me
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the stories we tell
self-hatred
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is art
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just like
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poetry
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it needs to be expressed
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a razor blade
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is my pen
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m
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the definition of irony
they throw
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their expectations at
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me, as if
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they were
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a ball.
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i've never been good at catch
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she was.
your words
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spin out of control
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like the car she was in,
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and your words
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crash into me
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like
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death is a certainty
they say
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death
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is a certainty.
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they're right.
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i'm not
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living;
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i'm waiting,
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full of fea
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the ideal weight is zero
the numbers on the scale
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they define my worth
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and right now, my worth adds up
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to exactly
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zer
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things that haunt me
you are with me
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within me
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every second
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of every day
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every time
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i close my eyes
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i see you
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