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Mother's TuneI choose to ignore my aching heart / Carrying it in secret behind my shadow smile / Heavy legs take me around this cold dance floor
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Pie in the SkyI looked into unseeing eye; / it didn't blink / Tears pooled blurring my vision....
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LOSSIt’s fragile and fleeting and filled with fear / Tentative, uncertain, uncomfortably near / Loss
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AtheismThey slip through the cracks / In and out of every pit / Until with ease they arrive
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LOSING YOUI chose you for captain though you were off course / I saw you a hero, a knight on a horse / I dreamt of you sailing when I saw you’d no boat
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My Foolish HeartSitting / In the dark / Feeling the beat
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Falling into PoetryI want to fall into Poetry / Where warm billowing words will comfort me / Enfold and cover and immerse fully
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Not Like Metonight I feel not quite like me / theres no free flow of poetry / I slide down trains of serrated thought
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Silver LiningIf I had the silver cloth that could line your darkest cloud, / I’d wrap you in it forever more and hold with all my might / No stormy sky or gale force wind or black than blacker cloud
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Letting GoWhat possessed me to wrestle so long / Picking away on unchartered ground / Pushing emotions around and around
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