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I’ve got something to say, but it isn’t nice, / and I was told, more than twice / Not to speak in vain, so again / …I am quiet. But silence is intimidating; I’ve developed a nervous chuckl…
I’m the one on the sofa dancing with the shadows love, inclined to look away when the suns routine rises, / I’ll trade mine for a teabag and whisper splintered dreams to the dust…, / “Don’t…
Grrr
I guess I assumed. / Our downfall is that neither of us could wait, but it’s also why we fitted, ...I’ll miss you. So this is goodbye to our future. I guess I assumed. And this is goodby…
She lit her heart with her head and threw it to the ground, / But it turns out that she was by herself because it didn’t make a sound. / He’s rubbing shoulders with the persona that he’d alway…
You were drunk when I slipped my heart in to your pocket, / I should have realised you would not remember it there. / …I will not try to take it back though, in hope that one day you’ll find i…