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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
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whether i'm ready
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is not up to me
D#m
we go where we're ordered
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to bunker or beach
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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
G#m D#m
you folded your leg
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right foot to left knee
D#m
you laughed at my back
C# G#m
said you couldn't believe
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how violent I could be
just brushing my teeth
(this part is hard to figure out
give me feedback if you can)
B G#m D#m
B G#m D#m
B G#m C#
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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
G#m D#m
but every word
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seemed too small to speak
D#m
so we watched the sky reach
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ambivalent peaks
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we made our projections
present and free
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