You'd think I would have learned by now
not to take the things
you say too seriously
because to you,
a promise is little more than
a few flimsy syllables and spit
and if words were a currency,
your's would cause inflation
of the highest degree
but I live
in a place where words are precious
and dripping with sincerity
and that's why its sometimes
so hard to come up with
the right way of saying
the things that I mean
and that's why I sometimes
say nothing at all
because words that fill space
just feel so unclean
so you'd think I would
have learned by now but
they say that gambling
is an addiction
[and you know I've always loved good fiction]
Jul 23, 2013
Jul 23, 2013 at 10:22 PM UTC
You'd think I would have learned by now
not to take the things
you say too seriously
because to you,
a promise is little more than
a few flimsy syllables and spit
and if words were a currency,
your's would cause inflation
of the highest degree
but I live
in a place where words are precious
and dripping with sincerity
and that's why its sometimes
so hard to come up with
the right way of saying
the things that I mean
and that's why I sometimes
say nothing at all
because words that fill space
just feel so unclean
so you'd think I would
have learned by now but
they say that gambling
is an addiction
[and you know I've always loved good fiction]
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