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They’ve been trying to pick me off one by one

Since before the day that I was born

  • Why do I even keep trying to do things at all?

    When with every step that I cagily take I fall

  • Live in my shoes then say how you understand

    And how if you where me you’d be a different man

  • Talking nonsense they think that I can’t hear

    The flaming arrow tongue tips how they do sear

  • My heart has been locked into place by my mind

    Each holds a key to the other that neither can find

  • Like a lost secluded door that is waiting to be opened

    I am waiting for the right three words to be spoken

  • But pictures can not speak only blurry shadows do

    Of how they like to scare me into thinking they are true

  • I cover and duck as they take potshots at my soul divine

    From the front they see me while I live from behind

  • So day by day and one by one it goes on and on

    Until they give up on me and I am lastly left a lone

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    ©22 October 2012 - 11:37pm — b4i8islept