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  December 2023     1 month ago

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I can't be Pandora

When wanting the best for me
Means the end of you
Trying to try up all my loose feelings
Into a bow
Instead of this knot in my chest
Into a box
That stays shut...

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Grief cocktail

And then I loved a man
Who forgot his mother's love
And we matched our grief
Drink for drink...

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Night gale

Standing in this wind
Whipping from every direction
Howling with the tides
And it smells like salt and smoke
And all the places it's been
It humbles...

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Probably always will

I wish things could be different
That you'd understand my heart
But you don't really see me
You haven't from the start

I have always wanted
And probably always will
To be the one to heal you
And be the one to fill
The hole inside your...

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Leaving on Tuesday

I'm sorry baby
The drinks won't change the facts
I'm leaving here on Tuesday
And I ain't coming back
I tried so hard for so long
And you won't try to meet me
Even close to half of what's the middle
I just can't keep playing the whole band
...

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