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There they are, those words of yours Right on your tongue Just past your lips And that’s where they’ll stay, isn’t it? They’ll hang there, so inert and stagnant Never to be spoken, never to be heard I can feel them, these words So palpable, so thick, so painfully dense There’s nothing greater than your silence to saturate our air Just say the word, and let it end But no, you can’t, you won’t, these words are static Never to be spoken, never to be heard
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Oct 11, 2012
Oct 11, 2012 at 10:33 PM UTC
Don't Speak
There they are, those words of yours Right on your tongue Just past your lips And that’s where they’ll stay, isn’t it? They’ll hang there, so inert and stagnant Never to be spoken, never to be heard I can feel them, these words So palpable, so thick, so painfully dense There’s nothing greater than your silence to saturate our air Just say the word, and let it end But no, you can’t, you won’t, these words are static Never to be spoken, never to be heard
josiah-hayes
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Oct 11, 2012
Oct 11, 2012 at 10:33 PM UTC
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