| The night before we had discussed it extensively over the phone
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| That was where me and melanie kept our relationship safe
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| Revelations took place during commercial breaks
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| And we’d say we were running away and settling
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| In the theatre where they shot david letterman
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| Our only hope for some understanding
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| He’d take care of us, ??? | 
| parents
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| But the marriage itself
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| It was hurried and casual
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| I don’t know where she came up the ritual
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| After the bell and before second period
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| Out in the hall she gave me a petal
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| We swalloed to pieces of flowers together
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| And then we were married
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| Until she said one of us lied to the other
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| That meant that the petals inside us were dead
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| I got married
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| I got scared to death
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| I got sick
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| From all the petals i haven’t eaten
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| Say yes to me, take this ??? | 
| in destiny
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| Say i do, make me believe it
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| Ten months of marriage and no consummation
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| Right there for the taking
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| This scared 7th grader could not kiss her
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| Just the thought of first base
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| And surprise, i’m MIA from the stadium
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| ??? | 
| and greenside, an open drainage pipe, beckoning inside
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| ??? | 
| waiting, i pussied out nervous
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| Alone, above ground, to the place where the sewers resurfaced i walked
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| Afraid of the dark, afraid i’d stay pushing away what i wanted
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| But clearly more fearful of acting, of getting it
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| Behind the library we sat together
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| And she liked the veins in my wrist, she touched them
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| Her first boyfriend bill, before his expulsion
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| Brought her here for what she called mouthrape
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| So i never tried it, beside her afraid
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| I saw her a year ago, might have been more
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| She was working at janda, a cockiesville florist
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| Said nothing of course, tongue sore from the biting
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| Well aware of the corpse of those petals inside me
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| I got married
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| I got scared to death
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| I got sick
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| From all the petals i haven’t eaten
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| Say yes to me, take this ??? | 
| in destiny
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| Say i do, make me believe it |