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We have a brownstone townhouse kind of love The kind that we can cover with the murals of our madness With the paint of our perfection That's built on the floorboards of our expectations The number always changes but the people never seem to I would like our love To not be measures in square feet, But with the creeping doors and narrow staircases. The closets stopped hiding the things we asked them to And my skeletons lay sprawled All hip bones Vertebrae and rib cages What has become of me? I asked myself and your look said unfamiliarity and an animosity Which I never thought possible. Your smile spelt out greed And your vocal chords never articulates the syllables I wanted them to. You used me. An I fell for it. Is love just muscle memory? Are we all just reacting the same way we did the first time?
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Jul 21, 2011
Jul 21, 2011 at 5:49 AM UTC
Brownstone townhouse kind of love
We have a brownstone townhouse kind of love The kind that we can cover with the murals of our madness With the paint of our perfection That's built on the floorboards of our expectations The number always changes but the people never seem to I would like our love To not be measures in square feet, But with the creeping doors and narrow staircases. The closets stopped hiding the things we asked them to And my skeletons lay sprawled All hip bones Vertebrae and rib cages What has become of me? I asked myself and your look said unfamiliarity and an animosity Which I never thought possible. Your smile spelt out greed And your vocal chords never articulates the syllables I wanted them to. You used me. An I fell for it. Is love just muscle memory? Are we all just reacting the same way we did the first time?
emma-zanzibar
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Jul 21, 2011
Jul 21, 2011 at 5:49 AM UTC
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