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Aug 2015
Shooting star
With a quicksilver mind,
You deserve to go so far,
Can't someone stop you
Before you ruin your soul
With irreversible harm?
                                                                    
Drinking all day,  
Every single day,
Out of your head on *****,
Is this the life,  
Is this the way,
A gifted child should choose?
                                                                    
Your beautiful lethal life
My friend,
Has sent you around the bend,
Your foolish defiant
Decadent dance
Could soon be at an end.
                                                                    
But you don't care
Do you, shooting star?
As you drift in your blissful dream.
"Your Beautiful Lethal Life" was partly inspired by lyrics freshly written for the song a friend, who’d already written his own, around 1992.
Carl Halling
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Carl Halling
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