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Broken Down

If it seems like my love has gone on holiday,

it not a slight or desertion,

I'm just trying to get the temperature just right.

To make you feel the way I feel when you make me laugh,

sigh, or tremble, because I cannot hold you at this moment.

You make me make noises a grown man shouldn't be making,

I can erase deep depression, with the impression of you stored in my album,

You open parts of my mind I thought had been welded shut.

I think of you at odd times, four in the morning,

drinking juice out of the carton,

because I live alone, and can do that,

I remember something you did for me,

and the juice tastes like your mouth.

I want you to have the crown jewels, I want you to sip champagne in paradise,

but all I have to give is these weathered memories,

and this brokendown soul, full of love

for you.

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will-mercier
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Sep 7, 2012
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