Swords and pens and tears and blood

Emotion, demotion and skin that's so tough

If I can live through this then that is enough

Learn and earn devotion and trust



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Love is the subject and nothin' else nothin' else

Love is the course love is the subject



Notes and jokes and follies so cruel

Elation, cessation and pain, that's the rule

Find me later face down in the pool

Prop me up for lesson number two



I eat and sleep and culture my person

Measure up to the yardstick she's using

Punch drunk stars like sparks in my vision

Paradise is something inhuman when



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So much of this is quarrel

Clenching of the teeth

It's stormy on the surface

Let me underneath



Wlk and talk and give up and talk on

My body hangs 'round this heart like a jacket

My stomach sinks lower preparing for worry

I'm so reaady to feel good in a hurry when



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