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can't find the forest
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too stuck on the trees
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but now you're invested,
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so i'm left pretending
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it's all i can see
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i asked for a window
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to open my cell
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you came as kaleidoscopes
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climbing, colliding
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you came as yourself
Cm Gm
whether i'm ready
F Cm
is not up to me
Gm
we go where we're ordered
F
to bunker or beach
Cm F
to the close of creation
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as shells and stories
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a spiral staircase
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Astoria, Queens
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i claimed you while conscious
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got sleepy, forgetful,
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and left you in dreams
Cm Gm
you folded your leg
F Cm
right foot to left knee
Gm
you laughed at my back
F Cm
said you couldn't believe
F
how violent I could be
just brushing my teeth
(this part is hard to figure out
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D# Cm F
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drove from the service
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spent in my seat
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my woman beside me
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a clutch of hydrangeas
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a strange sort of peace
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in loss, i'm made certain
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unveiled clarity
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it's you i will marry
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my lover, my family
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you always will be
Cm Gm
but every word
F Cm
seemed too small to speak
Gm
so we watched the sky reach
F Cm
ambivalent peaks
F
we made our projections
present and free
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