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I am not depressed
I am not depressed
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I’m just deflated
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Out of style and over-dressed
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At second-best, I’m overrat
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A lucid doodle
With a tracing of my dreams
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I’ll draw for you
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In the shapes of streams
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And the sounds of seas
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Bourbon Street
You and me
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We should be poetry
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We should be prose
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The way our breathing slows
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And our hearts
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Beloved
Inside me
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While you grew and grew
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I never knew
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Your heart was broken
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And that there was one
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La Danse
You said that I could find you
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In the space that lies between
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The reality that binds you
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And t
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If I could recreate reality
If I could recreate reality
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I'd soften the finality
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Of your forced farewell.
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I'd make it so /
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Aimee
Transfixed, I watch the worlds
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In your eyes transform
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From blue to brown to green
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From sea to
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Another woman
There is another woman living
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In the friction
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Between your hips and my thighs
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Do you think I h
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I wrote a poem for you
I wrote a poem for you
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The day before I met you
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When I didn’t yet know a soul can be shipwrecked
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Fine-tuned
You were beautiful in Borneo
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Like a song I’d been expecting
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To start playing on the stereo
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I w
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