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The way you kissed

They said you were gone

Long lips and high cheeks

Longer lipstick and no goodbyes

 

Your eyes were like tears in the corner

Something I couldn't see

And yet you took me, in the narrow

Told me you'd be there, on hot roads

In the corner, always in the corner

 

You said it wouldn't hurt but you lied

Like all the times you kissed me

Silver raindrops and a smile that said

You were gone

 

I learned to love you anyway

Away when you told me you'd hold me

Like all the forgotten things you missed

And just another kiss you said

 

Ill be gone

And then this song won't matter

None of it will matter like it did

When you kissed me and told me that you're gone

 

Tried to tell you how much I needed

A silver face like yours

Someone to grace my days and hopes

But nothing really hurts the way you kissed me

For the last time, always in the corner

And now you're gone again forever

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andrew-siegel
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Sep 23, 2017
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