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When I look back 
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Tracing fingertips over plastic bags 
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Thinking: I wish I could extrapolate some small intention 
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Or maybe just get your attention for a minute or two 

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Will I die 
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Or will I get to that ten-year mark? 
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Where I beat the extinction of telomeres 
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And if I do, will you be there with me? Father, sister, brother 

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Charlie, stop smoking 
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Caroline, will you be with me? 

Will the baby be alright? 
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Will I have one of mine? 
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Can I handle it 

Even if I do? 
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It's said that my mind is not fit 

Or so they said 
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To carry a child 
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I guess I'll be fine 

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It wasn't my idea the cocktail of things that twist neurons inside 
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But without them, I'd die 
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They say there's irony in the music, it's a tragedy, I 
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See nothing Greek in it 

Give me a mausoleum in Rhode Island with dad 
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Grandma, grandpa and Dave 
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Who hung himself real high 
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In the National Park sky, it's a shame and I'm crying right now 
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To get to you, save you if I take my life 
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Find your astral body, put it into my eyes 
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Give you two seconds to cry 
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Take you home, I 

I'll give you a blanket 
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Your spirit can sit and watch TV by my side 
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'Cause, baby, I 
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Ran through a time when I felt you were doing it 

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I couldn't handle it, I was in Monaco 
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I couldn't hear what they said on the telephone 
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I had to sing for the prince in two hours 
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Sat in the shower 
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Gave myself two seconds to cry 
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It's a shame that we die 

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When I was fifteen, naked, next-door neighbors did a drive-by 
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Pulled me up by my waist, long hair, to the beachside 
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I wanted to go out like you, swim with the fishes 
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That he caught on Rhode Island beaches 
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But, sometimes, it's just not your time 

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Caroline 
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What kind of mother was she to say I'd end up in institutions? 
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All I wanted to do was kiss Aaron Greene and sit by the lake 
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Twisting lime into the drinks that they made 
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Have a babe at sixteen, the town I was born in and died 

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Aaron ended up dead and not me 
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What the fuck's wrong in your head to send me away? 

Never to come back 
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Exotic places and people don't take the place of being your child 

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I give myself two seconds to cry 
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Let it crash over me 

Like the waves in the sea 
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Call me Aphrodite 
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As they bow down to me 

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Sunbather, Moon chaser, queen of empathy 
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I give myself two seconds to breathe 
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And go back to being a serene queen 
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I just needed two seconds to be me