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What We Both Know

When I met you, I never thought I’d be that girl again

Fallin for another man’s tricks and bein another **** puppet

The difference here is now I know a thing or two.

My honesty came from a bottle or five of Blue Moon

In a dark hometown parking lot. In the play of my life this is a familiar scene.

I always fall harder and I always care more and ********* I have run my fingers to the bone

And my heart to the ground and my bank account to the negatives trying to keep you here.

And when people ask, I will deny that after all this time my face still lights up when your name

Hits my phone and I’ll jump at the chance to hang off your lips like the Camels in the door of the truck

We spend so much time in the back of because we claim there’s no reason to have to miss the way

We fused so well and fit so perfectly.

But after so many of those nights, I realized I know you better than you think I do.

I know you like I know the scars on my arms and like I know how I have my daddy’s skin but my

momma’s mind.

And every ******* time you pull me into that back seat and you press your forehead to mine as you

Press the rest of yourself into the rest of me, I feel it and I know you feel it too and don’t you dare

******* tell me you don’t love me too because we both know what those silences mean.

Between kisses, when we just stare at each other; one always asks, ‘what?’ and without fail,

The other will always reply, ‘nothing’ because we’re both too weak to say how we feel in that moment.

The difference here is that you know a thing or two because, between bottles of beer, I told you.

And if I know anything too, it’s that I can read you like my favorite poem, and behind the aggressive

Façade and the smoke you’ve inhaled, you’re just a scared little child holding a beer living a life

You do not truly understand.

And if I want anything in the world right now, I want you to hand the beer to the man I know is inside

You and let him become drunk on the words he needs to say and let them find their way to my ears.

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Jul 29, 2013
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