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my mouth is a beggar tonight

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desperate and whorisheager for anything resemblingstrengthgive me your violencemake me feel soft againI will be anything you wantI will crawlpantsweat..

we were nothing but some words scribbled on air

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and all the things I buriedcome up through the gutknocking at my throatthreatening to take my voicebut I fill it with whiskeyand hollow laughterI drow..

I want your hands to brand me

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I want to feel my mind twitchunable to look awaymy heart has brought meto the feet of manypress down on mebruise me with the force of your lipstell me..

maybe I should've listened to that fortune teller...

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maybe I should've let the heatlie stilland all the thingsthat made us bleak and mean and brokenwould've dissipated with timebut I don't have the const..

I doesn't take much

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it begins like a slow rusha rotting feeling in the guta picturea nameand there you aremaking my eyes bleed againit's been monthsI should be able to st..

I'm not what you want

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I'm not even closeyou want someone to make you feel aliveto reach through your skin and your hurt and your scarsand create some kind of magicI can'tI ..

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You make me want to spill secretsCreate something to cave intoBut you're not a parachuteYou aren't there when my body hits the pavementYou aren't ther..

I thought you would come back by now

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just like the last timeI thought you would saythat you missed meand we would argueand call each other namesand then get over itI thought we were made ..

I thought you were heaven

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and I don’t even believe in heavenI thought we would kiss in the oceantell jokes until the sun came upI thought we wouldtouch each other in and ..

when there's nothing left to keep you breathing

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I've peeled my skin open for youin placesI still don't have a name forbut it wasn't enoughit's never enoughI don't understandhow can you ask for moref..