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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg4SgNYeCgU

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And I ask her,

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Unabashedly, and yet mortally afraid,

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Be my mirror -

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Tell me what I'd see.

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And she looks at me in that remorseful way,

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As the nurse about to deliver the needle.

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And she says to me,

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You're not the same;

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You've lost the things 

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That took my glance

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And brazenly transformed it 

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Into a wanton,

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Everlasting gaze.

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