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Lightning In a BottleSalty air kisses my face in the darkness of the night / only the distant flashes of light / make the waves glow, the illumination of a calm moon nowhere in sight
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SheThe weight of the world weighed heavy / She was a modern day Olympus feeling the pressure cracks of a spherical burden / Bearing the full brunt she winces yet sheds no tears
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Taste of your chapstickI remember the taste of your chapstick / original flavor plain as you were, a taste insipidly vapid / I remember everything up until our last kiss
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AnchorCast your wishes to the wind / Launch your desires to the sea / Throw your emotions to the ocean
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TimingThere must be a scapegoat, a faceless soul we can blame / when events unfolding never crease the right way / there needs to someone to take the fall
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Hiss of a snakeI heard the hiss of a snake / When you asked if I could forgive this mistake / The serpent sound your lips would make
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ClockThe faint hint of tension left the air pungent / a mordantly eerie undertone that I couldn't scrape from the sky / even with a sharp stare from bright eyes
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FabricThe sheer magnitude of what hung in suspension above me / The faint glimpses of the milky way galaxy iridescent and lovely / Desert sand the bed I longed for all this time
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The love I loved for youLet's bury the lovely inconsistencies / Leave the intimate fallacies to mystery / Then my perception of your passion fits with me
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WanderingWandering paths, merely brush pushed aside by eager hands / feet pressing firm on uncharted land / the vantage points of a cliff undiscovered
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