| Don’t break too many hearts.
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| Don’t take too many arrows in the chest.
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| Cry comfortably, let us all know what you’re thinking.
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| Is there a gesture I could use to clearly express
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| I’m at an utter loss for words?
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| Is there a part of you that’s torn? | 
| That’s larger than life?
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| That’ll hold on for one more night?
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| I’ve got a speech to make.
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| Followed by a big parade.
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| Northside. | 
| Closed eyes.
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| All charades go on forever.
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| Hands tied with fool’s pride.
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| In a slowly fleeing summer.
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| Just throw your hands up at the sky.
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| No use trying to explain this.
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| The clouds are mirrors. | 
| I’m disguised.
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| I’m not all that entertaining.
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| The city looks the same
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| Until you notice smaller changes.
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| It still knows us all by name.
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| It holds us close to its heart
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| It holds us close to its heart
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| All my hopes are unaligned.
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| This diagnosis is self-designed.
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| Northside. | 
| Dead eyes.
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| All charades go on forever.
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| Hands tied with past lives.
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| In a slowly fleeing summer.
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| Empty rooms don’t have pictures to talk to.
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| Brick wall views demand uninspired afternoons.
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| The days are flooding into months.
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| The nights are staring into centuries.
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| I’ve got some older pictures
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| Of people I see once every couple years.
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| Intrigued or unamazed.
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| «You were so much different back in those days.»
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| And now this smile has a bitter curve.
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| Now these eyes are unenchanted.
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| And all we see is a faded image of what we used to be.
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| How can we relate
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| When we don’t know a thing about each other anymore?
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| When we don’t know a thing about each other anymore?
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| When we don’t know a thing about each other anymore?
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| When we don’t know each other anymore?
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| Is there a gesture I could use to clearly express
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| I’m at an utter loss for words. |