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Monkey Bars

You need to treat my world like a glass globe

It is not a ball that you can bounce around

You can't throw it at walls when you're angry

You can't squeeze it like it's a stress ball

 

My world is precious

Just like yours

If you flip my world

Ill surely flip yours back

So we're looking at each other upside down

As if we're hanging from monkey bars

Because that's what love is like, isn't it?

A play ground.

 

Ill chase you around

You'll chase me around

Ill slow down so you can catch me

Somewhere in there one of us might fall

And I hope you're the type of person to help me up

Instead of laugh and watch me get up myself

 

If we'd play cops and robbers

Id steal your heart and you'd put me in jail and ask for it back

But the thing with thieves is we are selfish

I wouldn't hand over your heart because I don't want to give it back

You would have to pry it out of my cold dead hands

But you wouldn't have to worry, I'd give you mine instead

 

And we would play around in our imaginary world

Flipped upside down

As if we're on monkey bars

Because that's what love is like, isn't it?

A playground.

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