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Once I thought I was in love |
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But that was a mistake |
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For it was a warm feeling |
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Wrapped around me like a shawl |
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Learn to love the corners |
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And the angles of the world |
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To not love them you'll never live |
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The only peace is death. |
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Love isn't a glow or a song in the heart |
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It's bony fingers tugging through your hair |
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It's sharp hipbones bruising blue your thigh |
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It's saying something softly that goes unheard. |
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Love snarls up the patterns |
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Of everything you know |
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It doesn't send you off to space |
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But buries you instead |
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Love holds on to gravity |
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And gravity is love |
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To love another human is |
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A puzzle for the head. |