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Broken Record

The record skips at the same point each time,

Broken, it spins and no noi-

Noise, static from the speaker that is my heart,

My life seems to be in sha-

Shambles, when it plays, the sound, melodic,

Each note speaks to my very so-

Soul, announcing itself to the world for all to hear,

And yet my life seems incom-

Incomplete, without that sound of the treble,

The sound alongside the und-

Underlying bass, that is defined by emotion,

The mids make up the wo-

Words that harmonize the two together,

But while this record sk-

Skips, they will never play in sync,

The sound of the nee-

Needle jumping reminds me of the present,

And how things will ne-

Never be as good as they once were,

For the record will never re-

Reach its end, until then there is nothi-

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toro
36 / M / American
Published
Sep 3, 2013
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