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Science Project
I want to dissect the space in between growing up and being an adult / I want to see the heart as it beats its desperate beat of not enough / I want to see the lungs that save their breath because the worst thing to ever happen has not happened yet
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Expectations
I've been here all day / The day is starting to darken into night / And I have been here all day
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Awkward
So. / Yea. / About that night...
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Which one?
I have two things to share and one thing to hide. / One: That my heart tried to glide and fly back to you and discovered that all it could do was beat / Another: That I tried to grow in pieces that were illegal under the statutes of what was pretty
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Unlike the back of my hand
Today I looked down at the dark side of my hand, saw a freckle and I thought of you. / I never knew you lack the back of my hand / Always a foreign country
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What's that noise?
Its the pitter patter of our future getting ready to crawl into bed with us / But waiting instead / Right out the door
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Inspiration
I want to nibble up the inside of your leg / Tasting the the scent of your skin / Like a final tally leaving acceptance as the victor after too many bouts with denial
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